Velious is rich with content. Everyone knows that. The majority of the player base however has not experienced all that Kunark, let alone classic EQ has to offer. Not to say that I cannot wait til Velious is released, but there are still a majority of p99'ers that haven't even been to the planes yet, let alone experienced any raid content whatsoever. Velious would definitely bring out more people and the size of the server would grow, but what would be the point if this server is supposed to provide the most classic EQ experience anyone can get if an expansion as great as Velious is delivered to the masses too early? Not to knock your idea or anything about being able to drop back to lvl one for one piece of loot, but there also exists on this server a very large number of people who have put in countless hours to get their characters to where they are now. The population only falls off during certain times of the year as far as I can tell (college picking back up, etc.) so I think the implementation of Red has only affected the Blue server minutely at best. The server's casual players need a couple of months to catch up to the more hardcore players/guilds and, well lets be honest it will take much longer than that. However, I don't think it's worth overlooking what can be accomplished with the size of the player base on the server currently and the degree of more equality that can be achieved by the time that Velious is actually launched.
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