Off topic was among the slowest subforums for like 90% of the life of P99. The death of all the other subforums has more to do with demographics and Discord use than anything else, imo. There just aren't a lot of bright eyed, bushy-tailed, ignorant newbies anymore running around asking questions. Of the people left playing P99, I would guess many are die-hard veterans, soloists, or not deeply embedded enough in P99 culture to bother with the forums.
I doubt removing the only semi-active subforum left on the site would cause the other subforums, on a slowly dying emulator, to spring to life. If I had to guess, by this point, EQ emus have captured about all the market they are ever going to capture, outside a few young stragglers that wander in.
If P99 really wants to compete it can restart green and segue blue into custom content or a customized Luclin that doesn't deprecate all of Norrath, or something.
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