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[fohkure]

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

ive read a lot of posts on the daybreak boards from players making comments like "my friends wont play p99" or "my friends refuse to play on p99" or "fuck p99 id never play on that server"

and my question is, why not? what is the reason behind their adamant resentment of P99? i get it if they wanna box or run mq2, but if they want classic everquest, and since we do classic better than anyone else on the internet, why wouldnt they want to play on p99?

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Sirks

I love this server and I love you all for making it. I think it's really awesome.

That being said, Luclin was personally my favorite expansion. I really enjoyed the raid content and AAs. If another server came along that was even 80% as good as p99 and its staff, but went up to Luclin or PoP even, i'd jump ship in a heartbeat. I paid for a months subscription to Ragefire and didn't like it. I stopped playing live around the GoD time period, so the live Ragefire server doesn't even closely resemble EQ to me.

In no way is this a complaint for the record. I never have and never will complain about what you guys do here. This was simply intended to answer your question with at least one answer. Them going past Velious was enough for me to pay $15 to check it out. I immediately stopped my subscription because it was about as bad as we all thought it was going to be. I had to find out for myself though!

[Champion_Standing]

Most of the complaints or anti p99 sentiment I see revolves around the rules here or the community....sry guys. I have yet to see someone seriously say "oh I would love to play classic eq but I just can't play without maps." C'mon guys, your "friends" tell you that stuff because they just didn't want to say the truth about what they think about you still playing eq. Titanium availability also does scare some people as well.

But let's face it, the community on blue is weird. I tried to get back in recently, all I found were dead eyed zoned out groupies who barely said a word, plenty of generous and friendly lvl60s running around tho. Just weird over there now and I doubt I'll ever regularly play blue again.

[Bboboo]

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

ive read a lot of posts on the daybreak boards from players making comments like "my friends wont play p99" or "my friends refuse to play on p99" or "fuck p99 id never play on that server"

and my question is, why not? what is the reason behind their adamant resentment of P99? i get it if they wanna box or run mq2, but if they want classic everquest, and since we do classic better than anyone else on the internet, why wouldnt they want to play on p99?

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Sirks

The reason is probably because P99 does not have most of the nuance that Modern MMOs have today. Seeing dot timers/better camera control/guild options/target rings/ect...

[Riotgirl]

A number of common themes:
- Titanium Client
- Old school mechanics
- Missing specific expansions

If Daybreak made a payable download I'd purchase in a heartbeat to show that there is a demand for legit copies. I eventually found ISO formats without using the Bay, but it took a while to find, and the Daemon Tools recommendation fails to take into account demo only allows for 4 virtual drives.

The biggest challenge is that there is a big demand for casual. CRs, exp losses, and the like are considered hardcore and the majority of the playerbase do not want this, or player interdependence. Essentially single player with chat is what it is all about.

Spread the word to old EQ players and people with a similar mindset. No point reaching out to those to whom the EQ mechanics are anathema.

[Grimjaw]

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

A number of common themes:
- Titanium Client
- Old school mechanics
- Missing specific expansions

If Daybreak made a payable download I'd purchase in a heartbeat to show that there is a demand for legit copies. I eventually found ISO formats without using the Bay, but it took a while to find, and the Daemon Tools recommendation fails to take into account demo only allows for 4 virtual drives.

The biggest challenge is that there is a big demand for casual. CRs, exp losses, and the like are considered hardcore and the majority of the playerbase do not want this, or player interdependence. Essentially single player with chat is what it is all about.

Spread the word to old EQ players and people with a similar mindset. No point reaching out to those to whom the EQ mechanics are anathema.

well... considering that you only need 1 virtual drive... that should be fine.
(when it asks you to insert the next CD, you can eject the prior one - how do you think it was done on actual CDs? 4 CD-Rom drives?)

[DeathWalking]

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

ive read a lot of posts on the daybreak boards from players making comments like "my friends wont play p99" or "my friends refuse to play on p99" or "fuck p99 id never play on that server"

and my question is, why not? what is the reason behind their adamant resentment of P99? i get it if they wanna box or run mq2, but if they want classic everquest, and since we do classic better than anyone else on the internet, why wouldnt they want to play on p99?

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Sirks

Its mostly because of manchildren and welfare pixels. i dont think boxing is the issue.

[HalflingWarrior]

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

ive read a lot of posts on the daybreak boards from players making comments like "my friends wont play p99" or "my friends refuse to play on p99" or "fuck p99 id never play on that server"

and my question is, why not? what is the reason behind their adamant resentment of P99? i get it if they wanna box or run mq2, but if they want classic everquest, and since we do classic better than anyone else on the internet, why wouldnt they want to play on p99?

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Sirks

Do ya think, just maybe, it has something to do with nearly FIVE FUCKING YEARS of Kunark being farmed by the same people who've amassed tens of millions of platinum? Or did u happen to conveniently miss all those posts?

Open a FRESH BLUE99 with, or shortly after, Velious.

[Samaritan]

Maybe Daybreak will see the light.

[sirelothar]

Because those people assume it's hard to get on this server and/or are just plain lazy. They're enjoying their magician run server, let em.. it'll die off in a month or 2, if that. Watching all these raid mobs downed by mostly mage groups is pretty sad.

[Huggz]

P99 was a "magician run server" too... in case you forgot, go look through threads at the content getting chain-petted.

If they are anything like me, they know that p1999 is stagnant and has spent entirely too long in Kunark (4 years). I server wipe or option to start over on a clean server would be such a breath of fresh air - yes it would eventually return to how it is now but it would be a remarkable breath of fresh air.

p1999 is a fantastic free passtime, but it's a broken server and I don't see why if people are here for the "classic experience" they don't wipe and create that experience again. But I don't think many of the players enjoy the experience of playing the game as a challenge nearly as much as they are addicted to pixels and feeling uber.

I guess I don't understand the fear of wiping a server like this. The platinum dupes, the RMT'ing, the flood of camped items, poopsock lockdown, MQ-everything, PLing taking up space in every single zone... the server is flooded and poses no challenge.

100% more fun after wipe, but people are scared to lose their "investment" (time spent, not invested). Of course that's just how I feel. Give people the chance to play a new class in a new and varied and fun world.

But we have some terms with DBG now and I don't know if we will ever get to see another Classic experience occur. Hopefully those that agree with me will just need to be patient for it.