Classic is kind of a Vague term anyway. At what point in timeline is EQ still considered "Classic"? The original game, no Kunark? Kunark? Velious? Which Patch? What about Hot fixes? Temporary Bugs? What day? What Hour is EQ still classic? Things were changing so often, that there is no to tell perfectly how the game was actually functioning to perfect accuracy at anytime. P99 is good enough to be considered classic. Perfect reproduction of everything is unnecessary and not really possible at this point. The original source code is lost to time. All they have available to rebuild the original "Classic" game is random anecdotes from players at the time, patch notes, and the few developer comments. It's also kind of a strange rant. There may not have been a wiki and all the other stuff you listed, but people still shared information online as it became available. If "Classic" means perfect reproduction of some arbitrarily defined point in the development timeline and the web as it existed in time, then "Classic" is impossible to create. This seems more like a troll rant.
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