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Originally Posted by porigromus
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With everyone's attitude to assisting in getting Kunark ready to open, they should just not do it and let the server set at classic forever. Seriously, if I was running this I would be thinking that right now. Ungrateful people.
Edit: Or shutting the server off indefinitely
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You sir are mixing up ungrateful with shocked by the sudden downtime/addicted. I haven't read any posts since the servers went down that demean the hosts in any way. What I have read are people who are curious when the server will be reinstated so they may resume preparing for Kunark to actually drop. Some of us just found out about the server recently, and are attempting to prepare our characters to have fun in Kunark. We don't all have level 50s that are ready to go already.
I have only been around for a few weeks and am having great fun. I have a couple friends I play with on the server, and we had plans of really pushing out some levels this weekend, while having a blast in solA. Instead we bit and ran over to the beta server to try and help out. However I find myself at a lack of ability to be of any assistance because I don't remember enough about my years on EQ Live to really know what is correct and incorrect about mob loot, pathing, aggro, hairstyle etc.
I have played MUDs for ages, and the ones I play are hosted by devs that also don't make any sort of profit from them. I am friends with a lot of those devs and know the shit they go through. The fact I, or anyone else is curious as to when the live server will come back online is NOT ungrateful. It is a testament to what these devs have built and the fact that people are attached enough to their creation to spend the time asking for it to come back online. The real issue is the lack of information on this mandatory beta. The entire server was told via Server Message that the beta test would end "at some point tomorrow night" or something along those lines. If that goal can no longer be met it would be at least respectful of the devs to allow their community in on that fact.
As for how you would react to a community that is in a similar situation as this. You have to think of what these other people are saying, and put yourself in their shoes. People like me who just came here and are freshly addicted still have goals they want to meet. You may have 50(s) and have nothing left to accomplish in Classic, but some of us don't even have enough platinum to encumber their character
[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] . My group last night was having a blast, and were very excited to have a Charred Guardian Shield drop. 10 minutes later we were told the server was being shut down. That's a tough pill to swallow, when you have 5 or 6 guys ready to spend the entire evening doing something they deem as fun. Would it be fun for you if you were out at a bar with your buddies that you had planned on hanging out with and all the sudden, at 10pm, the barkeep told you the doors were closing at 11pm?
Case in point. It was a shock to all of us, and people's reactions do not mean they are ungrateful to the devs for what those devs have created.
03-12-2011, 11:43 PM
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