Poll: Reopen Teal (Digital Social Distancing)

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Originally Posted by Castle2.0 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'm sure the lack of marketing/communication/notice of the release and turning off 1 of the 2 available forms of exp for 30 days had nothing to do with it [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Coulda sent emails to every account announcing the release. Coulda collaborated with some community members (like LevelUp Larry) to create a great hype video to link in the email.

Oh wait, they don't get paid to do this.

I don't think that's the case at all. Also, we didn't see a significant drop in pop due to the quest EXP issue either.

Everyone knew it was coming sometime in November. The lack of broadly disseminating a specific date would explain lower pop on the first day or two. After that, everyone who would be interested in returning for Kunark would know that it had been released.

The fact of the matter is there were many people who either wanted to experience the launch of a brand new classic server overall, people who were EQ veterans and hadn't really played on P99 much (or at all) before so they were giving it a shot, and people who had never played EQ ever and were giving it a shot that caused the high population around Green launch. Many of those people got what they wanted out of the experience, or didn't like P99 at all, and have moved on. There are probably other P99 players like me who have been playing more on Blue than Green lately since they just wanted to try out that old world only fresh launch. Kunark was never going to be like 2.5k - 3k pop.