Just want to add my voice to the fray.
As many have already said, I pledge an honest donation to the creation of a second blue-99 server with a simple rotation schedule. This server would be a fresh, reroll. Start at classic and release Kunark a year later.
History has time and time and time and time shown again x1000 times that if you leave private interests wide open to adults, rules get abused. This is human nature (at least in western cultures). Its either A) Extreme greed pushing "class C" guild members to maintain exclusive control to some of the raid content and/or B) the monetization of getting high end items and large amounts of plat for use in RMT. With 1k at around $3 an item worth 100K can suddenly pay a utility bill for a guild leader or officer. Just 3 or 4 of those a month and you can live on that. You guys better believe me when I say there are people playing on this server exclusively to farm items and make real life money. Do you think platlord just double boxes and has some kids farming for him? No! He has partnered with people in elite guilds, who knows how many people coordinate the system. Do not underestimate how far people will go to protect their money, many who discredit this fact are the ones profiting from it.
If you just forget about all the circumstances leading up to the rules and everything and just look at the situation, does it seem right certain guilds are "allowed" to do certain content and others haven't "earned" that privilege? Its insane!
I resonate most with the guys that say we are an older demographic that are drawn to playing a good nostalgic mmo, the best mmo there ever was, Everquest. When I was 15 I was totally fine with sitting 4pm to 6am staring at my computer but now with a job and a kid I just can't swing that.
+1 for funding a reroll blue server with guild rotations.
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