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Originally Posted by Bones
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Unpolished EQ clone is an absolutely absurd remark. MnM is definitely more polished than classic era EQ, and its not particularly close. Your other points really are your opinions so have so I'm not going to bother critiquing them but to be honest it sounds like you are passing judgements as someone who literally never tried it out.
Also the Red comparison is just ridiculous. EQ PVP was always largely unpopular, because the game wasn't originally designed with PVP in mind. Even the old VZTZ boxes before p99 existed never really broke more than couple hundred players at their peaks. P99 came out and exploded pretty much immediately despite VZTZ iterations being around for years on EQEmu.
MnM also has a pvp server and I can almost guarantee its going to suffer the same fate as Red and and the VZTZ boxes before it. That doesnt mean its PVE servers are going to have the same problem.
Its got something going for it that p99 or any classic EQ private server never will. Completely brand new game, new world, new content, but plays very similarly in style, and its done in the Unity engine which actually looks pretty good. Not saying its going to have 100k+ subscriptions and compete with big name MMO's but to assume its going to rapidly fizzle out like a classic EQ pvp server is crazy tbh.
They also have quite a long timeline already planned out for gradual new content releases which is always encouraging for potential players.
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Yeah the PvP server looked DOA to me, and I have no interest in it even though I love the PvP in WoW. For me the reason EQ was such a superior game in many regards is because it wasn't balanced around PvP (it wasn't really balanced at all, every class has something that makes them OP and/or shitty in other ways). I would be completely okay with them not really doing anything with PvP at all honestly. I get a pretty good PvP fix just from doing BGs or Arenas in WoW, as I associate PvP more with WoW than EQ.
All that being said, I actually think this game is going to be a lot more popular than people realize. I genuinely don't think that MnM is just going to be a game played exclusively by 40+ year old EQ veteran boomers. During this play test I played with a bunch of young folks who admittedly never even heard of EQ before playing MnM and they all seemed to really enjoy it. There's a ton of high rating WoW players in the MnM Discord who already love this game.
I think it's going to be one of those games you see people like streamers talking about in a few months. Especially the Classic WoW crowd. Genuinely believe that. Game like this would probably even appeal to a lot of people who normally play survival games, it has a lot of those elements, cutting down trees, starting a camp fire, killing animals and cooking them etc.
I really expect all of my friends who never played EQ but know I played it to be asking me if I've ever heard of MNM before in the near future.