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Originally Posted by nalkin
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Powergamers have ruined it to some extent, but they aren't totally to blame. In our day and age a fresh version of EQ has a good life expectancy of about 6 months. Everyone knows all the secrets and all the ways to completely optimize performance such that the economy gets inflated so fast. New people aren't going to want to play on an insanely inflated server.
The other reason the game is ruined is because there is absolutely nothing to do end game. The raids are not challenging so raid content alone isn't enough to keep competitive interest high, plus you are working towards a pointless cyclic goal whose only objective is to gain better gear. Once you have better gear you try to obtain better gear, but once you have the best gear you ?
I don't think there is anything that can be done to maintain an EQ server because its impossible to recreate the lack of knowledge we had back in the day. Really the only thing we can do is keep recycling the server over and over every year or so imo. The grind is the game, building a character is the game. People who qq about losing what they have worked for are living in some dreamland where its possible to have a lasting persistent server. All mmos degrade at some point, and with how good we all are, this one degrades perty gd fast.
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Good post. You covered better what I briefly touched on when I said it's a flaw in the design of the game itself.
Moreso than most games, the journey to max level in this game is where the fun is. It isn't the endgame. This game barely even has an endgame.
In fact unlike other games where you gear grind once you hit max level, the gear isn't even of much use to you. You can gear a toon exclusively from items in EC, even skip out on the expensive ones...have a raid full of people that do the same...and you'll be able to clear any content we have just fine.
That isn't to say some high end raid items aren't useful, naturally they are, but you don't really need any of it. If you're already clearing everything the game has to offer with ease, there isn't much incentive to keep clearing it other than to make your character equipment sheet look pretty.
But then, that's classic.