This isn't related to P99 or EverQuest, but a lot of the decline is because modern MMOs aren't fun anymore and this is coming from someone who has an active subscription to World of Warcraft. Like it just sucks. Nothing you do in the game feels meaningful, all content/items become obsolete every few months. Content gets digested super rapidly.
I can remember being a kid when EverQuest was a new game, and when my parents bought Velious and Luclin it almost felt like a waste of money because I was still digesting the Planes and Kunark and really didn't have the time or desire to travel to the new zones as a non-elite player, lol.
IDK if we'll ever have a game like that again, ya know? Where it releases and a few years later you haven't even hit max level or seen most of the game due to how difficult and time consuming it is.
Like 11.1 for WoW dropped and within 2 hours I was basically done with everything.
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