Poor and Rich, no middle?!

[koros]

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.

This is a really fucking idiotic post.