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Originally Posted by Cyrano
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Haha fair enough. I think what you'll find is that there isn't a game with the open competition like you find on P99 anymore. EVE was fun but seems like with the skill progression the big names have an insurmountable lead in that game.
The other factors; this server is free, I don't want to spend the time developing another character, I'm already in a top raid guild and don't want to jump through the hoops required to get here again in another game. Maybe in a few years I will, but the time commitment simply is not an option for me personally. It's much easier to log in when I get a text, kill something, then log back out.
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While I appreciate your attempt at candor, I don't know how much of this is based in reality. I believe you when you say one reason you stay here is that it's free. I have long suspected the denizens of P99 are largely unemployed or underemployed. I also understand not wanting to go through the bizarre hurdles required by raid guilds to gain membership.
Other than that, it's all rather disingenuous. Saying you don't have the time to commit to raid in another game and then stating you get texts and then log in to raid is totally counter-intuitive. I mean, being available to raid at the drop of a tweet is a far greater time commitment than anything I can imagine in any other game. For that matter, other games do have open-world raid mobs to sate your competitive desires, and some even avoid instanced content, altogether. The only really unique thing about Classic EQ is the Tunnel and the naked corpse-running. You could level to cap and be a bleeding-edge content-devourer within two months in WoW, and then you could minimize the impact the game had on your life by setting two nights a week to raid.
See, I don't really believe your justifications. I believe you believe them, and you are no doubt really invested in them, but they just sound pretty fake. I think the joy taken in killing mobs on this server has more to do with depriving your perceived enemies of the kills than anyone would like to admit, because if you did admit it you'd feel pretty sad inside.