One thing I learned from my first "box" experience, was that boxes have short lifespans. Sure, VZ/TZ was around for several years but how many "versions" and wipes of it did it have to get there?
We are a full 7 months since server release, what else did we expect of the population? Original EQ came out on March1999, Kunark was out April 2000 that is a 13 month timeline. Verant felt they needed to release an expansion on a game with thousands of people on a server to group with and have fun with 13 months after release to keep the grind and interest going. What the hell can we expect of a 150 population that have played in prior EQ boxes classic 10x over? Look the admins suck we can all agree on that, but I think we're understating the fact that even if staff was on point how much longer can you run the classic experience after a 7 month run? ESPECIALLY after you take out the legacy items, which is really the only reason to even experience classic. One of the last pop drops I saw was right after legacy was removed because then you definitely gave players that don't raid absolutely ZERO incentive to logon for the PVE aspect of the game.
If the server were to shut down tomorrow I could say that I enjoyed my time on here and the experience of leveling up with no plat or spells to 50 again, and the first few decent PvP battles, and checking for zones for KOS, etc all things that were lost in the current MMO world absolutely no regrets. But there is just no reason to logon now and with the lack of communication or clear word on timeline from admins there is even less of a reason to logon because there is no timeframe for a kunark release or any upcoming changes.
Server has a slew of things to fix, but part of the problem is that you can only play 13 year old content so long before you get fed up and bored, seriously people.. when the game and content was fresh they released an expansion 13 months after the release.. 13 years later we're still 7 months into this classic timeline with no obvious answer as to when the next content or change patch will be, can you really blame people for being bored outside of all the other issues people have with the server? the reason the Vz/TZ crowd call for wipes is because it is really the only way to re-engage the player by giving them a new grind and putting everybody back to square 1.
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