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Originally Posted by Seducio
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Presentism is seeing the past through the lens of today. Not realizing these very conversations are one of the feedback mechanisms devs use to get in touch and create a better experience over time. P99 has had 15 years to become what it is.
In that time P99 has created a moat around its model compared with other Emu via its enforcement of one box and Anti Cheat. Which is business parlance for a barrier to entry. Other Emu have struggled to compete because of Multi-Boxing choices or poor CSR commitments.
As p99 evolved the p99 player bases expectation also evolved. Quarm is up against quite a bit since p99 has created a high end Old school EQ experience. Satisfying perfectionists might not be the best use of dev time. If the Quarm experience keeps improving over time it'll be much more popular in year 2 and year 3 then at the beginning. Almost like a You Tube channel that grows slow.
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I'd say this is similar to Secrets' point in the other thread with the added conclusion that in total people on P99 have been tolerant of a lot of ups and downs and kept playing. Few if any of those 'downs' had anything to do with Rogean, Nirgon & crew... rather their underlings.
Look how many people play on TLP's where you can pay real money for experience potions and shit, and buy items with krono. Quarm could do a lot worse. With Oakwynd not being the world's most popular TLP sometimes I wonder what's going to happen if Quarm is 'the' new EQ box. iirc there is a PoP-locked TLP, but that particular server has the burden of yearly TLP releases chipping away at its player base, in addition to the microtransactions and monthly fee. An emu is forever
Look what happened to Nostalrius and every other blockbuster wow pserver