I'd say Kegz and pals have got a good window now to get as many bugs (that should have been sorted out during the server's 2 year beta) fixed as possible. If The Sleeper is still a bug ridden hellhole with painfully slow XP and seeming penalties for solo players versus boxers, I'd say the day Velious releases on P99 is the day they'll lose a chunk of their population.
I don't doubt there's people who have done everything they want to do on P99 before Velious is released and are looking for that vacation to somewhere else, but how many come back is dependant on how soon things get fixed over there and how the guild situation ends up being. At the moment there's a couple of contenders for the #1 spot, but with nobody anywhere near raiding it won't matter...and there will probably be a merge to create a zerg raid force, and its just P99 history repeating.
I'm on the fence with the server. I think a lot more could have been done during the beta, it feels like PEQ over there and that it wasn't ready for release, but if they launched the server after Velious on P99 they'd have had a very small population.
Only thing going for The Sleeper...talk of further expansions already. P99's future isn't so clear. I'd love to roll a beastlord, fuck yeah...
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