scourge of the server

[phacemeltar]

has anyone noticed that anytime someone asks for help or advice on starting a new toon, like 3 or 4 people respond by offering them free items from some 50-60 lvl zone?

sure this is a great way to get someone to 60 asap to join your raid team, but i think this could really hurt long-term retention numbers for the server. seems alot of people just level from 1-50 and then are never heard from again or then spend all their time farming low-level zones that they never got to experience while levelling, thus stealing the experience from more new players. (scourge is a literal term here)

IMO part of EQ is the hellish grind, camping a mob 16 hours for a quest item that you will replace in 5-10 levels.


EDIT: im looking for discussion here, so for you people who follow me around and troll my posts.. please try to contribute.