P99 is not like classic and here is why

[kaev]

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People routinely don’t invite people out of the fear of forming a non ideal group. That’s the biggest issue I’ve seen that impedes groups.

It's more extreme here, but that shit started with the shunning of hybrids in Kunark on live as the knowledge of the hybrid xp penalty slowly penetrated the player base. During Velious & into Luclin there was a fair bit of complaining on alt.games.everquest about pickup groups (i.e. groups not formed strictly from guildmates) forming in only two flavors:
- holy trinity (warrior+cleric+chanter) filled out with monks and rogues, or
- shaman instead of trinity and again fill it out with monks and rogues.

In short, the EQ playerbase has always been just as full of selfish pricks as real life. You need to make and keep friends if you want to have cool people to hang out with.