How do we get players to return to Project1999?

Autotune · #1 06-14-2012, 12:38 PM

a 30yr old game is having people lose interest? Fail mmo

webrunner5 · #2 06-14-2012, 12:51 PM

The "End Game" is what killed the original EQ. They kissed the asses of the raid guilds and threw everyone else under the bus. And that is what has happened here. I am not against TMO. The top guild always takes the heat.

The problem with this server now is when they stated Red it took away a 1/3 of the people. And most of them just gave up and quit both servers now. And now Rogean seems to have just went Poof. No patches that are really needed, and the goddamn server crashes 2 to 3 times a day have just killed it for a lot of people, including me.

I see no real future here as far as I am concerned. And even if Velious comes out unless you are really high level there is no zones worth a crap for noobs in it. So I think it won't help in the short term even if it happens soon.

I think the end is near like it or not.

The pet class nerf and the Melee skillup problem has been the straw that has broken the camels back to me. The average person on here does not have time to play 24/7 like they did 13 years ago. So much for "Classic".

Ambrotos · #3 06-14-2012, 12:57 PM

As much as you want to hate how raids were made in EQ, most of EQ was centered around non raids. EQ lost more raiders than non raiders over time. EQ was going strong up to the end of SoL, and then many changes were made in Raiding and zones to help allow more people do that type of stuff. What happened between PoP and forward? EQ finally died.

webrunner5 · #4 06-14-2012, 01:05 PM

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As much as you want to hate how raids were made in EQ, most of EQ was centered around non raids. EQ lost more raiders than non raiders over time. EQ was going strong up to the end of SoL, and then many changes were made in Raiding and zones to help allow more people do that type of stuff. What happened between PoP and forward? EQ finally died.

Oh come on. I have been playing this game since 2000. I have raided till my ass fell off. Even the original devs spent an inordinate amount of time dealing with the whinning, crying top guilds. There is a shit pot full of hate on here for TMO. Like it or not.

The average person on here, who will probably never raid, just wants this Melee crap and crash stuff fixed. Most have not got the time or desire to raid. They just want to get on here and be able to group and play for 2 to 3 hours at a time. Ain't happening with 200 peeps on here. Sorry. With 50 peeps in the tunnel trying to sell to nobody.

A noob doesn't stand a chance now with nobody to buy their Bone Stacks, HQ Hides, Silks etc. How they suppose to make any plat?? And with the Melee skillups zonked makes for a long day with little hope in sight.

Lazortag · #5 06-14-2012, 01:02 PM

The server has probably lost hundreds of players from unnecessary burnout at the high end. Here, people have to invest unreasonable amounts of time to accomplish things that took less time in classic. With epics out, the gap between the top players and the bottom players increases even more because lots of epics require drops from boss mobs that most players will realistically never be able to see in this expansion (Bard, Druid, Ranger, Mage, Necro, Wizard, Warrior, and SK epics are extremely difficult to get if you're not in a top guild). So lots of people probably quit when they realized how much content they were never going to see, that they rightly would have been able to experience in classic without too much effort.

That being said, velious will fix a lot of the above problems, so there's no reason for any "the sky is falling" type posts.