Red dead or worth coming back?

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

Red99 is what it is and likely will never grow beyond that. It's effectively a one guild server for end game content. There's a lot of finger pointing for why that is, some blame nihilum,
some the competition, some the staff, some the rules, some all of the above. If you're in nihilum you'll get gear, down dragons with little to no effort 99.9% of the time and do so until you burn out unless you're a neckbeard. If you join the opposition you'll likely bang your head against the wall accomplishing little. If you choose to just go FFA no allegiance you'll find little world pvp worth playing significant time here for. Every several months there's a one to two week period of mass pvp and excitement which usually quickly dies off.

Is the server fun? Sure, there's fun to be had and in a MMO you ultimately make your own fun. But I think few would honestly dispute that this server is even close to living up to the potential of an eq pvp server, which is why many look toward teams99 currently.

My advice? If you're here to relive end game content , give it a shot roll up and join nihilum. If you're here for the journey? Join blue. Here for exciting pvp? Wait till teams99.

True in a lot of ways, but not concerning t99.

Team server was the worst thing they could ever announce, and will continue to be the bane of R99 as long as the idea continues to exist. Prior to the announcement, r99 was peaking in the 200s on a daily basis for the first time ever. Its taken months and talks of velious to restore hope to the playerbase. Teams really offers nothing other than another server where the neckbeards will have an even greater advantage when they will roll 3+ characters, one for each team to dominate the competition as they would on an FFA server. Sure, it will be fun at first, but it will ultimately dry up soon as players get leveled up and find a lack of contested content to pvp over. With velious on both blue and red, teams99 would be destined for failure if launched prior to the completion of Velious content on both servers.

Pretty much the worst thing you could do is search for answers on these forums. Those who dwell here make up about 25% of the people that actually play, and 20% of those players are disgruntled members of the losing team or has-beens from a bygone era of internet gaming.

Log in, have fun and send tells to a few random members of Nihilum, Azrael and other smaller guilds for a more accurate survey.