SoE is missing money

[Slake]

SoE tried this once. The opened 2 servers with no content open except classic and they put a "time line" in place. They said that Vagy and Nox had to be killed before they would open Kunark....I am not sure of how long it took, but SoE had to scramble and put in a "set period of time". Seems two guilds did a zerg fest on both dragons and got them killed in weeks.

Kunark was same thing. Then Velious, etc etc. Both of those "classic" servers are caught up to the rest of the servers if I am not mistaken.

I seriously doubt SoE would ever consider rolling back the clock for a server.

What we should be talking about here, is everyone contributing some cash so Rogean will quit his job and work solely on getting Kunark out for us!! (insert funny sarcasm here)

[Haynar]

The important thing to remember, is most of the people playing here, wouldn't play on a pay to play SOE server no matter what kind of server it was. Even if Sony had a classic server, the majority of those here would prefer to be here.

A lot of people cannot stand SOE.

Sony is not losing any money here.

Its like the recording industry. They have this fascinating idea, that everyone who downloaded a song for free, would have bought it if they couldn't download. That is so funny of a concept. They can keep fooling themselves on that one.

Haynar

[Finawin]

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

Its like the recording industry. They have this fascinating idea, that everyone who downloaded a song for free, would have bought it if they couldn't download. That is so funny of a concept. They can keep fooling themselves on that one.

Haynar

That ALWAYS cracks me the fuck up in copyright arguments.

[Cribanox]

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

That ALWAYS cracks me the fuck up in copyright arguments.

I think that not counting an illegal download as a stolen item is a step in the wrong direction, you have to count downloading a full album as the same thing as shoplifting the album from the store, or downloading a movie as shoplifting the dvd from a store. If you don't count these things as actual items, I think we are going to suffer as consumers in the long run. (DRM is a good example in the video game industry)

[Gwence]

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

SoE tried this once. The opened 2 servers with no content open except classic and they put a "time line" in place. They said that Vagy and Nox had to be killed before they would open Kunark....I am not sure of how long it took, but SoE had to scramble and put in a "set period of time". Seems two guilds did a zerg fest on both dragons and got them killed in weeks.

Kunark was same thing. Then Velious, etc etc. Both of those "classic" servers are caught up to the rest of the servers if I am not mistaken.

I seriously doubt SoE would ever consider rolling back the clock for a server.

What we should be talking about here, is everyone contributing some cash so Rogean will quit his job and work solely on getting Kunark out for us!! (insert funny sarcasm here)

They opened 2 progression servers which was initially one but had to make a 2nd one because of the mass interest. I was on combine there was alot of people on it (like 5k+ at least) for the first few weeks. It took a little over a month for kunark to open and I think most of the people were discouraged about that because they wanted more time to enjoy the old world.

Of course I was one of the people that helped burn through it all super fast, but I probably would've enjoyed having longer timelocks on everything.

[Striiker]

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

SoE tried this once. The opened 2 servers with no content open except classic and they put a "time line" in place. They said that Vagy and Nox had to be killed before they would open Kunark....I am not sure of how long it took, but SoE had to scramble and put in a "set period of time". Seems two guilds did a zerg fest on both dragons and got them killed in weeks.

Kunark was same thing. Then Velious, etc etc. Both of those "classic" servers are caught up to the rest of the servers if I am not mistaken.

I seriously doubt SoE would ever consider rolling back the clock for a server.

What we should be talking about here, is everyone contributing some cash so Rogean will quit his job and work solely on getting Kunark out for us!! (insert funny sarcasm here)

The reality is that SOE did a poor implementation of the progression servers. There was a lot of newer code in the old world. For example, casting NPC's were much harder than they should have been. Mistmoore for example is heavy with casters and in the progression servers, people were getting their asses handed to them. Also, in Qeynos Hills there was an area where people could enter an instanced zone and get some very powerful items. The list goes on. They should have implemented a time-lock so that people could enjoy the old zones. I think they should have unlocked expansions at a rate which matches the original release rates.
As pointed out by others though, SOE was also concerned about the amount of players which were stripped from their standard servers. It is for this reason that we will not see a "Classic" server released from SOE until perhaps the end of life for the live servers.
The closest you can get to the classic feel is to get a Mac computer and sign up on Al Kabor. I almost did that until I discovered this server. This is my new home!