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Originally Posted by DeathsSilkyMist
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This is a bad comparison. Nobody on earth has control over a Hurricane. P99, on the other hand, is built by humans, managed by humans, and designed to manipulate humans to play in a specific manner.
The only difference between Sleeper and Manastone is the dev's allowed Sleeper to be awoken by a player rather than a timer. Due to the high probability of Sleeper being awoken, there is technically no difference between a randomized timer and a player triggered event.
I am not sure why this logic is difficult.
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We essentially have no control over the humans that are in charge of p99. As far as us plebs are concerned, the devs are completely outside of the game. Force majeure. They are for all intents and purposes god. We are completely at their whim. The devs have a different motivation for their actions. Their goal is to recreate Classic Everquest and as far as my noob ass can tell they have tried to do this quite faithfully. They haven't added a minimap or quality of life changes. Maybe they have recreated elements of the game they personally disagree with, but have done so in order to replicate the game as it was.
It's like you getting angry with George RR Martin because he killed your favourite character. Completely pointless.
Look I am open to you being right about whether or not they have deviated from the original game as it was, but it clearly feels wrong to compare the devs removing manastone with a subset of the playerbase clearing content a consequence of which is it removes some content.
This is also why I have no problem with either action - we are aware before time that these are the conditions of the game we are playing with. If we object that much, we can spend our time doing something else.
If a gunman is about to shoot at me, and I duck, and the bullet hits a person behind me, this would be viewed to as very differently as if I had grabbed the person behind me and threw them in the path of the bullet. Same result but different judgement on my behaviour.
I don't think you can compare the devs and manastone to the playerbase. Maybe I am not articulate enough to argue it more clearly.