Poor and Rich, no middle?!

[NextGenesis88]

I have been in between poor and rich for a long time. I don't see what you are talking about, but I can understand a new player being envious and feeling like they need to buy gear just because they see other people geared up at their level.

[indiscriminate_hater]

Level up a bard to 55 and then make an average of 3k an hour farming traks teeth. Boom money

[LethalLogic]

It is so tiresome to read posts that sound like they came straight out of the Obama Administration's talking points. Guess what genius, there isn't a finite amount of wealth. You too can go scrounge up some items and sell them at the same prices you complain about everyone else selling them at. It seems there is a contingent of entitled people on this server that think just because they made a pixel elf that they somehow get to start at the same level (financially) as the people who have been playing on this server for years.

Pay your dues pixel elf.

[rollin5k]

I think its just that a lot of the population wants to start the movie over because they missed the beginning.

[LethalLogic]

Originally Posted by rollin5k [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I think its just that a lot of the population wants to start the movie over because they missed the beginning.

Probably so..and I can understand that to a degree.

[webrunner5]

Originally Posted by HeallunRumblebelly [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yeah, but all of this is a sunk cost when they realize they're doing about 20 dps with an epic and 41 haste. lols.

Well stated. There IS a reason 12 people play a Paladin on here. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.][You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Gaffin 3.0]

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[Sarajo]

Originally Posted by LethalLogic [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It seems there is a contingent of entitled people on this server that think just because they made a pixel elf that they somehow get to start at the same level (financially) as the people who have been playing on this server for years.

Pay your dues pixel elf.

Rich people telling middle-class to blame poor people... we didn't have that back in classic because the news networks were full of reporters, not trolls trying to sell more books.

Here's where this attitude, in which you're entitled to certain privileges because you've been here longer than someone else, becomes a problem: People come here for the Classic EQ experience. That means we are probably sick of the live EQ experience (expansion #26 or whatever), and sick of World of WarQuest, and Star Wars the Other MMO, and everything else in the MMO-verse that's been ruined. We come here to group and conquer content and form social complex social networks by playing a game together, which leads to trust and relationships. Or maybe we come here because it's the ultimate 90s pixel fashion show; we want to strut around with a Soulfire and have every low-level fresh pixel Elf see it and go "ooooooo!"

All of the appeal of this place involves socializing. All this version of the game stands for is competition (for resources/mobs/loot) that leads to cooperation. So when a fresh pixel Elf shows up and wants to experience classic EQ again, with the Crushbone wall groups and the Splitpaw corpse runs and the trying to get a group to go with you all the way to the bottom of Old Seb for something that probably won't even drop, but all they see is:

1) Fungi soloers instead of groups
2) Powerlevelling prostitution instead of groups
3) High levels killing all of a dungeon to hand off to their low-level alt, so that the low level alt can level through turn-ins

it doesn't exactly feel any different from (insert MMO that everyone hates here), ya dig? Why would you want to do that to classic EQ? Because you play the game just to skip as much of the game as possible?

When everyone who's been here for a long time insists on soloing, it just forces the new fresh-off-the-elevator pixel elf to solo, too.

[skipdog]

Originally Posted by Sarajo [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Rich people telling middle-class to blame poor people... we didn't have that back in classic because the news networks were full of reporters, not trolls trying to sell more books.

Here's where this attitude, in which you're entitled to certain privileges because you've been here longer than someone else, becomes a problem: People come here for the Classic EQ experience. That means we are probably sick of the live EQ experience (expansion #26 or whatever), and sick of World of WarQuest, and Star Wars the Other MMO, and everything else in the MMO-verse that's been ruined. We come here to group and conquer content and form social complex social networks by playing a game together, which leads to trust and relationships. Or maybe we come here because it's the ultimate 90s pixel fashion show; we want to strut around with a Soulfire and have every low-level fresh pixel Elf see it and go "ooooooo!"

All of the appeal of this place involves socializing. All this version of the game stands for is competition (for resources/mobs/loot) that leads to cooperation. So when a fresh pixel Elf shows up and wants to experience classic EQ again, with the Crushbone wall groups and the Splitpaw corpse runs and the trying to get a group to go with you all the way to the bottom of Old Seb for something that probably won't even drop, but all they see is:

1) Fungi soloers instead of groups
2) Powerlevelling prostitution instead of groups
3) High levels killing all of a dungeon to hand off to their low-level alt, so that the low level alt can level through turn-ins

it doesn't exactly feel any different from (insert MMO that everyone hates here), ya dig? Why would you want to do that to classic EQ? Because you play the game just to skip as much of the game as possible?

When everyone who's been here for a long time insists on soloing, it just forces the new fresh-off-the-elevator pixel elf to solo, too.

Nobody is going to buy your BS of 'all the people who have been here for years only solo so new players are forced to solo also'. You can get groups easily at all levels. You aren't fooling anybody. Also, don 't you realize that your complaints are regarding activities that don't affect you in any way? You are complaining about things others do with their time that has almost zero impact on your own playing experience. Oh noes, there might be some high levels in blackburrow killing gnolls... it's not that big of deal.

Pretending that you can't get classic EQ on this server is just ludicrous and nobody is going to take that assertion seriously.

[Raavak]

Play how you have fun. Don't worry how others play the game. And don't interfere with others fun.

Stop worrying about who has more than you. If you are jelly and want it too, play more. Otherwise stfu. There is no Obama stash here.