Variance, the raid scene and the coming of Velious

[Lune]

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

I have a problem with this thought process and rhetoric. Actually, no one in the game "needs" mobs. Everyone "wants" mobs, and I don't think you can really create a "rule" that someone's wants are more important or worthy than another person's wants. Who is one adult to tell another adult they can't play the game as much as they want.

Because some adults 'want' to pour endless hours into monopolizing content at the cost of everyone else.

I'm going to let you in on a little secret. I'm as big of a basement dwelling neckbeard as any and, from time to time, I've played p99 quite religiously. I've been in TMO and other guilds, I've done the batphones, poopsocks, etc.

Guess what? It made me hate the game. It's not worth it. Because of people like them/you/us, anyone who wants mobs is forced to resort to that nonsense. Taken to levels of such excess, I feel it is contrary to the spirit of classic Everquest and detrimental to the soul of the server. It drove me away. I guess I wasn't "dedicated" enough.

It's one thing to compete to mobilize and kill (trivially easy) mobs. It's another to systematically track them for hours at a time, camp out level 60 alts at their spawns, and have it ultimately come down to who throws a javelin at it first. That's competition, but it's miserable for all involved.

What's even more absurd? To do so when you already have one or more of the more coveted epics, yet countless would really like to get their first. So you loot it and sell it to them.

As I said, only some among us are ______ enough to deal with those conditions. I'll let you pick your own adjective.

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

We are all for competition, but it needs to be fair competition. We are also all here for the same thing, to experience classic Everquest. The same guild monopolizing raid content for 2 years that they might not even need anymore is ridiculous, just to block other guilds from the chance of gearing up to take on the same end game content.

I was thinking to myself the other day and I came to ask myself.. Are we providing this server to give people the arena to compete to such bitter extremes that it has resorted to taking every absolute measure to be victorious, or are we here to provide a classic Everquest experience for everyone to enjoy?