I don't know what is good for the server but I can tell you what has happened for me.
I rolled here as my favorite class, enchanter, and was pretty optimistic about being able to enjoy the end game. I took my time leveling and had a lot of fun. When I first started here (ignore my join date - i expressed interest about 2 years ago and had a life event that prevented me from playing) there were about 500 people online at peak hours.
Roll forward 3 months and I'm level 54. There's about 1k people on, and I app to join FE. In my interview, I state that it is imperative for me that I am not involved in any poopsocking.
See, I played on Fippy (and Combine, and EQMac, and Live, but that's another story) - was, in fact, a personality there. I got to max level on Fippy and began to realize my only option was to poopsock. I couldn't justify to my wife the time I was spending on EQ when i was literally sitting in permafrost/seb/what have you waiting for a mob to spawn.
So I quit Fippy. I left behind an empire of platinum and tradeskill mastery because there wasn't anything for me to do - i didn't have the best gear, i hadn't hit all the raid targets, but it was so trivialized by 150 people sitting on spawn that it wasn't worth it.
Where was I? oh ya, in my FE interview I said I wouldn't participate in poopsocking and was told that that didn't happen on this server.
Two weeks later and all the guild messages were about parking your 'raiding alt' at one spot and parking your main somewhere else. We get to 12 hours and a sock starts - we're at Fippy Darkpaw level.
So I quit here, too. I'm not gone for good, but I haven't logged on in several weeks and feel no incentive to do so. I don't know what can fix the server, but I know that right now it feels unhealthy, and it felt like nothing was being done about it. I want Velious to come out as well but I'm not stupid enough to complain about it - it's a free service after all.
Also if you read this and you know me in game no you can't have my money cuz what's mines is mines.
-Tomtee
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