Why no pre-fear capped server?

[Namsaknoi]

Sorry for this 2-star attention seeking thread which would never happen, and made to fit RnF, but I was always fascinated by pre-fear and pre-Kunark content as I started during Kunark, and on P99 I used to play on blue and blue server chat seem much slower than here so I am posting here.
Can you please help to add or correct any information and knowledge I have below? I got them from past experience, scouring bits and pieces online, and also while playing P99.


Beta - 1997 Nov to 1999 Mar - 16 months

- 56kbps modem was starting to become more common, but 4.8kbps to 14.4kbps was probably the standard
- Small population of players
- Concept of 'Beta-testing' was already quite alien to many people back then, at least not for public to try as there weren't many online games
- Probably no raid scene and no concept of it, but guilds were starting to form
- Full of bugs
- Items, spells, quests, NPCs and zones were still being added and tweaked
- Vox and Nagafen was never expected to be killed and no loot table, never did during beta
- Megalodon existed in Lake of Rathtear for sometime, but was extremely buggy and was warping everywhere on the island, never killed and probably no loot table and eventually removed during the beta
- No Leviathan (of OOT), never existed
- Similar story with Mayong Mistmoore, and became mostly GM event GM controlled character later on
- Nothing else notable during beta?


Release, to Kunark release - 1999 Mar to 2000 Apr - 14 months

- 56kbps modem is now mainstream, some had ISDN, and even smaller group of people reach 1/10 mbps if they play from college/company/institution network
- First quarter was pre-fear, eventually Fires of Heaven killed Vox and forced Vox and Nagafen to be itemized, and quickly forcing developer to create PoF
- Up to this point, loot was definitely not in minds of the developers, Short Short of Ykesha, Flowing Black Silk Sash, Rubicite/Fine Plate/Mithril would be BIS or near-BIS, chain or below had crap for gear, not many people reached 50, majority of people had very little game information and found leveling extremely difficult
- Second quarter was just addition of Plane of Fear, itemization of Kedge Keep (or was with PoH patch in third quarter)
- Third quarter was big change, no more Rubicite but Temple of Solusek Ro and mid-level class armor quests to make of for Rubicite armor, along with few other Sol Ro quests. Probably pre-buff Robe of the Lost Circle, Hero Bracers and pre-buff Burning Rapier quests appeared during this time. Addition of Plane of Hate. Journeyman's boots is now quested item instead of a drop. No more Manastone. No more Guise of the Deceiver but replaced with Mask of Deception.
- Fourth quarter more changes, Plane of Sky, already had mid-upper Kunark-level gear drops pre-buff and had difficulty of high end Kunark but was eventually beaten just before Kunark was released, Paineel also added, thus Erudite SK and Necromancer, and their relevant quests, Splitpaw revamp, Kerra Island, with quests like Kerran Toy