New SOE Progression Posts

[Chanus]

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

Lets see: Sony - a business
Project 1999- Donation based

^^ if thats not enough for debate then I don't what is. You think sony's server will be better? They are in it for the money...

I think you misunderstand how people make money.

It's not by catering to a niche market that hates everything you've done for the last nine years.

[Slathar]

I love all the baseless speculation people are spouting off here. Wait and see before you say there will be RMT and defiant drops.

Another example of level 50s with dragon-gearz fearing that p1999 will suffer a massive player migration leaving them with no one to act superior to.

[KilyenaMage]

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

I love all the baseless speculation people are spouting off here. Wait and see before you say there will be RMT and defiant drops.

Another example of level 50s with dragon-gearz fearing that p1999 will suffer a massive player migration leaving them with no one to act superior to.

I dunno about the Defiant items, but OBVIOUSLY RMT will be there - it always is.

[L2Phantom]

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

I think you misunderstand how people make money.

It's not by catering to a niche market that hates everything you've done for the last nine years.

You clearly have no idea how big of a success the last progression servers were. SoE publicly stated themselves that when the Combine and Sleeper launched, they had the best months (financially) that they had had in a long time.

The progression servers were epic amounts of fun and people were bustling in every nook and cranny of every zone. Guilds were racing to targets to progress their guilds and leveling together in nearly every zone in the game. There were a few things that ruined it for many people, the big thing being power gamers rushing to unlock the content in under a month, and zones being out before they were supposed to, but overall they were amazing.

i can't wait until we get to come back into the real Norrath in early 2011 and can see the changes that SoE has made this time to progression. I have a feeling that after seeing the response to P1999, they realize there is a market out there for the "niche" you are talking about. Most people tend to play EQ in short spurts and come and go to revisit old memories. That is where the money is for their company; nostalgia - and that is why they are bringing this server ruleset back again.