I have a friend who is super open minded about games. We are near the same age, but he never had the opportunity to play EQ back in 1999 / 2000. After talking to him about how great old EQ was I asked him if he wanted to sit with me one afternoon and watch me play, to see what he thought of it. He agreed.
We had a great time. He was in awe of the size of the world (made larger with scant few modes of fast travel). The pacing of exp really caught him by surprise also (wait, so getting 30% of one level in the 40s is good? There are some levels worse than this???) He also marveled at the idea of camps, that people could come together for a common goal to kill monsters for loot... And generally HAD to. Playing an SK I was able to show him I "could" solo.. Albeit poorly. After explaining thay some classes could solo better then others he asked "then why doesn't everyone play those??? Lol"
Even after this experience I couldn't get him to play. Classic EQ was a masterpiece in history. It's wonderful it's is being faithfully recreated here. But just as there is an art to, say, churn butter by hand, it's simply not for everyone. Times have changed. We have Diablo and Destiny instant gratification MMOs experiences which have cheapened online gaming. the destination had become now important than the journey now.
The problem, IMO, has less to do with what P99 can do to get people to play... I feel they can do no more really. The two issue with getting people to play is the changing MMO genre.
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05-26-2015, 10:07 AM
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