As someone stated, Diablo 3 is out and a lot of people are playing that.
I beta tested this server and played at launch for about 5 months. At that time, there were some issues with damage mitgation and such, and I had a couple of real life friends that left because the population was just too high in level to keep up with.
Don't run all over me with this, but at some point, they should start over and bring up a new server to allow people to start over again from level 1. I remember when this server first launched and there were like 200 people online the first night and there were constant crashes for three or four days, until the internet connection was increased. Of course there were other issues, but this server is pretty damn near classic now, so if the dev team decided to start over, send emails out to all of the registered users of the forums, I think it would defintely pick up again!
I do see the retards on the server that make it difficult to play with, but I try not to let them bring me down. They have been here since day 1 and will always be here. It is just the way things are now.
But I do not think that the rude players on this server are any of the reasons that the population has dwindled.
I think it is becuase:
-Diablo 3 release
-Kunark boredom
-Lots of new players are intimated when they start due to the population being "high level heavy" and then they lose intrest. This also forces new players to choose classes that can solo easily, which then creates too many of the same classes, and a lot of those solo classes aren't really needed in groups as it is, and because there are so many of these solo classes, it makes it hard to get a group
-As someone else mentioned, people over-hype the old "EverQuest experience" and then realize that after they play it, it is better kept as a memory. This game is frikkin hard and brutal and a lot of people cannot hack that!
I too played when there were 1k + people online and it was incredible! I will miss those days. Now I came back and there isn't alot of people around.........
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