Solving The "Blue" Issue.

[Balur]

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

Well, by my memory there were many servers, and some of the PVE servers had lower pops than the Zek's, at least for a period of time. I don't think it's quite the same. There was clearly more of an appetite for a pvp ruleset. I think the nature of the average player is much more griefy on a free emu server than it was when the game was new and people had to pay monthly for access. The stakes were higher.

I've seen green approach 1k players as recently as this year during bonus xp, and there were still only like 20 tops logged into red, which is only 2% not 10.

Speaking as someone who rolled on the racial PvP server the day it was launched, the main appeal was that it was a brand new experience. Most of us never thought about how janky EverQuest PvP was because there was nothing to compare it to at the time. It was in a class of its own. Verant was writing the rule book in real time.

It's hard for a lot of us to go back to classic EQ PvP when we've experienced PvP in newer MMOs that have perfected the formula over the last 20 years.

[Ciderpress]

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

Speaking as someone who rolled on the racial PvP server the day it was launched, the main appeal was that it was a brand new experience. Most of us never thought about how janky EverQuest PvP was because there was nothing to compare it to at the time. It was in a class of its own. Verant was writing the rule book in real time.

It's hard for a lot of us to go back to classic EQ PvP when we've experienced PvP in newer MMOs that have perfected the formula over the last 20 years.

Makes sense. Also, when EQ launched ultima online was it's only existing competitor, which was both popular and infamous for it's pvp. I remember being tempted to roll on one of the original EQ red servers because I was coming from UO and loved it's pvp, but I rolled on Povar instead cause at least you could still opt-in with the whole priest of discord thing (fast forward 20 years and noooooobody actually goes red for real on a blue server). Just a different time and place.