Longing for the Old Days of P1999, Yet Grateful for the Journey

[Jimjam]

Its mobile gaming at home, but from before mobile gaming.

[Treefall]

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

I feel like I should of jumped on the Quarm train, but I put too many years into EQ private servers. At this point in my life Green only worked for me because I was working remote most of the time I played. The sad truth is the game has fundamentally changed to a job in my mind for 90% of my playtime. Since leaving remote work the last 2 years I realized it is significantly harder for me to play this game. It's a wonderful MMO, but the time sacrifice is absolutely insane, and of course, thats the catch 22 of what makes it great. So in my mind, it's a really great game especially with the right social network, outside of that its a relic.

The only thing it's really missing is scheduled raid times for every raid mob.

You can literally work full time and raid a few hours a few nights a week and do pretty well for yourself. Yeah, you won't be geared quickly but you'll get geared...throw in some harder-core weekends periodically or days off being on call and you can still move up pretty quickly.

Up to 50, especially on an alt with gear, I can easily do a level every evening or two. 50+ it slows down, but it's not like it isn't something I can casually do and make progress.

I am rambling but ultimately saying I disagree with you completely. In a game like WoW I feel obligated to be super active all the time and progressing. Here I can fiddle-fart around and be on one camp peacefully for weeks very casually.

[Xer0]

Originally Posted by IzHaN80 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I feel that if you merge servers, people will just stay on the merged server and won’t move to a new one. A lot of players (with all due respect) are “poopsockers” who simply can’t let go of their toons, like their entire life depends on them.

What we actually need is a way to force people to move away from their old toons. Merging only creates more problems: deleted characters, messy name conflicts, and a ton of extra work for the devs. Too many variables, and none of them really fix the issue.

Look what happened to blue when green dropped. It never recovered.

[sajbert]

Originally Posted by Xer0 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Look what happened to blue when green dropped. It never recovered.

I think there are a few reasons for that.

1) The future of blue was and remains unknown. Will it one day become merged or will it forever be a lonely server and share the fate of red? I wouldn't mind starting up a character on Blue if i knew the servers would be merged

2) Blue initially had the advantage of more content but as Green progressed and Green had the advantage of novelty. As Green lost its novelty it also gained more content and in the end Green is just a newer and otherwise equivalent version of Blue. There's no reason to play Blue unless you're already heavily invested.

3) Quarm

[Gustoo]

There is no reason to play green now. As blue has cooler history and characters and maybe some old timers from the better days.

Three good servers need a little bit of love