The real reason the population is declining is...

[SearyxTZ]

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

I agree with Wolfram. Not about us bluebies running you off the server (this was a tongue-in-cheek comment that went over a lot of your heads), but about red players being too soft to make it in EQ. Since the server has been released, a good portion of you have been whining incessantly.

"It's too hard to exp!"

"Please dumb down the pve for us, we're red and red players are special; we deserve to be pampered and catered to!"

Sorry to so harshly express myself, but this is how I feel. You were griefed off of EQ by your sense of entitlement and unwillingness to play the game. There's nothing wrong with it, no one's saying you have to like EQ. But EQ is not meant to have accelerated xp. It's a social game, and you're supposed to care more about making/playing with friends and enemies than you are about reaching max level, imo. You remember being max level on live, and that's what sticks out in your minds the mos, and it's what you're striving for here. Do you even know why you don't like being level 20? I had a LOT of fun at level 20 on live.

If you don't find leveling to be enjoyable, the problem is not the game. It's you, and you should accept the fact that EQ has become too hardcore for you to play. Stop complaining, move on to an easier MMO and get on with your lives. Please. Because you're scaring away other players, who may actually enjoy playing EverQuest.

What I think is way funny is that a lot of these players that have quit or are whining are people that told me I couldn't survive here. Softcore is lots more hardcore than y'all [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This is supposed to be a red server. We don't want a hardcore blue server, which is what this actually is. That's what we got because a handful of vocal bluebies (who quit the first time they get corpse camped by someone) junked up the beta feedback threads by trashing things like global chat channels and accelerated exp rate. Features that had been on every other PvP server prior to this one that the majority of the playerbase supported.

I'm not sure how speeding up the tedium of grinding equates to "dumbing down the PvE". How do you figure? Do you think that's the challenging part of the game?