Disagree with Sirken about OOC/YT, but think he's spot-on about everything else.
I know that most of my guild (you know, the one that shot the VZTZ pop to 200 from about 50) would overwhelmingly vote in favor of it. It is not just the "hardcore troll" contingent who wants that/those features. Not everyone wants to be "immersed" to the point that they have no one to talk to in a zone where there's two other people, because the ooc is zone-specific and the game feels like a boring lonely single-player game. That is just going to suck. You P1999 guys need to realize there isn't going to be some big pow-wow meet-and-trade zone (EC tunnel) on a FFA red server where you can go to actually see the OOC and auction channels alive.
I thought Rogean had some smart compromises/ideas for YT (guild-only or whatever). Ultimately I think the players should decide whether the server has global OOC/chat or not. It's not for my personal sake that I'm lobbying for it either - I will have an entire guild of pals to chat with. The new solo player starting out in Qeynos Hills will not. For quite a while (classic XP rate).
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