What's the point of playing on a permanently 'classic' server and how is P99 classic?

[Elfminster]

What's the point?

• The ones who played from day one and got the prenerf stuff have a permanent advantage over everybody who arrives after them so P99 permanently favours those who arrived first. If you arrived later you will never have the same opportunity as they did so you will always be inferior no matter what you do which is really bad game design.
  
• Races are permanently unbalanced.
  
• Classes are permanently unbalanced.
  
• All the best spots are perma camped because it's such a small crowded place.
  
• There will never be a sci-fi aspect like there is in Luclin.
  
• There will never be Beastlords.
  
• Iksar have a permanent advantage over all other races (more bad game design) due to lack of regen items.
  
• Ogres have a permanent advantage over all other races (more bad game design) due to lack of AA abilities.
  
• It's an unnofficial emulated server; it's not the real thing.
  
• There will never be an official, professional and honest game designer to step in and fix the broken things so that it's fair for all regardless of when you start playing or what race you play.
  

How is P99 classic?

• There are two expansions; how is that classic?

In my opinion, Live is too advanced/commercialized/ezmode but P99 is too archaic and it's permanent. It's nice to have a world which youc can always count on because it always stays the same and never evolves into something you hate but is P99 Velious that world?

At least on live you can be just like everybody else, with enough time and effort, so even if you arrive late to the party you're not stuck in inferior mode like you are on P99 and you're not forced to pick a certain race or side because of balance issues (whether they are real or perceived).

Do you enjoy playing a in a permanently broken world? I guess if you are at the top of the pyramid because you arrived first and took advantage of bad game design which was later fixed (but not retroactively) then the answer is YES.

It's lovely to see people in newbies areas but I don't think they realise that they are just there to serve the people who arrived first.