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Old 03-02-2023, 11:54 PM
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People enjoy EQ because of scarcity. It's a rare thing in MMO's these days. If that wasn't the case, P99 would have died a long time ago, since people would be playing easier MMO's like WoW, or even just TLP.
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Old 03-04-2023, 02:42 AM
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People enjoy EQ because of scarcity. It's a rare thing in MMO's these days. If that wasn't the case, P99 would have died a long time ago, since people would be playing easier MMO's like WoW, or even just TLP.
As much as it can be a feel bad to be a member of the don't got club, DSM is correct. The scarcity of things is what makes the dopamine hits bigger and more memorable.

Once raid token vendors became a thing in WoW, loot exclusivity was immediately watered down, people got geared up way faster, and a lot of people lost motivation to raid week after week because they would "finish" their character faster.
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Old 03-04-2023, 08:10 AM
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The scarcity of things is what makes the dopamine hits bigger and more memorable.
which is almost exclusively reserved for warder loot now which is a non issue for literally anyone normal. blue in the kunark era had everything including epics on lockdown.

just because you can do a thing doesn't mean you should. and they have slowly over time realized that, only thing left is to add warders to that list and 3 daily quakes per time zone and the conversion to casual theme park will be complete.
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