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Originally Posted by Splorf22
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Here is a classic example of the red mentality. Remember, the whole point of EQ is PVE. They saw how UO was turning into a no-holds-barred brawl and their goal was to create a kind of massively multiplayer DND. Challenge was achieved by giving the NPCs much bigger numbers than the PCs, making all the good loot very timeconsuming to acquire, and by giving the playerbase as few hints as possible. Now, who says "I want to do all that PVE stuff AND still have to deal with gankers and PKs and all the UO PVP stuff" ? Someone who is very fucking serious about the game. Because if you are a casual player on a server like this you are the sheep.
So, when you combine a group of very hardcore players who all derive a great deal of satisfaction from winning at EQ with some ganks and a whole fuck ton of OOC trash talking and issues of the Red Faggot Gazette, and you get a server that is serious fucking business. Winning over there is a big deal; witness Stasis trying to sell his rogue after he lost in the first round of the BOTB. And, to quote Seinfeld, "Not that there's anything wrong with that!".
But now imagine you are one of those very hardcore red players who puts a lot of effort into winning on that server. And then you look over at blue, and you see that a) their population is 10x yours and b) they think your server is a shithole. This is like an assault on your core values. And thats why we see all these "come to red so I can shit on you you loser" posts.
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We're not serious fucking business, at least not more than blue (no matter what some red players say). It's a video game, and though it's a pretty hard one with giants in newbie zones and such, that's all it is. We have our trash talk and murderous elves; you have your trash talk and meanie raid guilds.
It's the same game we're playing, and if you have a solid group of friends to play with, either server is gonna be tons of fun. I think the initial reason for red doing poorly was lack of adventurous bluebies, and now the low population is causing the low population. There's some meanie twinks killing new players, but there have always been griffons and Sergeant Slates doing that in EC anyway.