Also the logical solution was... okay I will make an alt... there seems to be a shortage of tanks, so I'll make a Halfling Dire Lord. After an hour of having every name rejected, I found out through other players that they banned making new characters on well populated servers... so I was stuck being forced to play my character who had no one to play with
And meanwhile the noob area in our zone is dead with players complaining that there's no one to group with, so I think most of them just decided the game was boring and quit, and I personally talked to so many people who wanted to make a tank to solve the tank shortage, but they couldnt because it was banned, so I think the decision they made was actually a terrible business move since it made new players think the game was a dead ghost town that sucked since there's no other noobs to group with and the higher level people who realize we needed more tanks can't even re-roll
but also it completely ignored the fact that the elf starting area wasn't over-populated at all, and had a huge shortage of players (most tank players start in the human/dwarf/ogre area for obvious reasons, ogres make much better dire lords than halflings and elves can't be monks).
So like they made the elf starting area basically feel really dead because an area really far away was allegedly over populated lol
i better solution would have been to allow players to create elves / halflings, and/or tanks/clerics (theres a ton of shamans, but not that many clerics). but also like communicating that the server is locked because i dont think most people even realized it and just thought the game was dead.
Also again, terrible business move because I had two friends who never even played EQ before watch me stream pantheon on our discord server and both of them wanted to buy it and i told them not to because i knew they couldnt play with me and i wasnt about to start over on a dead server because i made that mistake on classic WoW and ended up on an unplayable server 2 months later. so nah. ill take the high population server, thank you lol.
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