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[rekreant]

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

1. Distrust of EQEmu servers. Putting time into a game run by private owners who aren't accountable to anyone (not saying it's a bad thing, but as a paying customer you have a bit more weight and reason to complain when stupid things happen)
2. Distrust of going to the pirate lagoon to attain a copy of EQ Titanium. Extreme computer illiterness (making this a word if it's not) and wariness of Trojans/viruses. Call it old grandma complex. Won't open any file cause they all have viruses that steal your identity.
3. Boxing. It's fun. I was boxing on the TAK Project earlier today. I feel I'm able to get a lot more involved in playing when I'm responsible for not only charming, CCing, healing and pulling at the same time. Makes playing a cleric more tolerable as I can tab to my Druid or enchanter and do things there. Especially on raids.
4. Content/Expansions. Luclin/PoP are some of the most well liked/successful expansions EQ had. They balanced so many aspects of the game. AAs brought viability to many classes on raids that lacked it for awhile. It gave purpose to exping once you are max level, instead of encouraging alt #27363. Then there's the raid mechanics; Shei in AR, Emperor in Ssra, EP Gods, PoTime, and several PoP flag raids like Rallos, LMM, Agnarr, Bertox, MB - These events were far more entertaining and engaging than Classic-Velious raid content. Tradeskills became useful in Luclin/PoP. Etc. PoP confirmed best expansion for a large chunk of the EQ population. Knowing it won't be here is a big deterrent for many. Nuke red and make P2002 that goes to PoP. You'd see 2000+ server size I thinks.

[Rekrul]

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

Bc people like maps and shared bank and the idea of a server that just dead stops at velious isn't that appealing to most people.

[slowpoke68]

Live is just a ton easier. There is no comparison in the time you need to spend to level. No corpse runs. Soul binders in every city. Shared bank slots. Casters, pets and monks do tons more damage. More vendor trash to sell at the beginning. Spells more frequently while leveling. The list goes on.

Also, getting the Titanium client might be offputting for some.

[tizznyres]

Originally Posted by slowpoke68 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Live is just a ton easier. There is no comparison in the time you need to spend to level. No corpse runs. Soul binders in every city. Shared bank slots. Casters, pets and monks do tons more damage. More vendor trash to sell at the beginning. Spells more frequently while leveling. The list goes on.

Ugh. Don't forget RMT cash shop to make things even easier.

[slappytwotoes]

Originally Posted by slowpoke68 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Live is just a ton easier. There is no comparison in the time you need to spend to level. No corpse runs. Soul binders in every city. Shared bank slots. Casters, pets and monks do tons more damage. More vendor trash to sell at the beginning. Spells more frequently while leveling. The list goes on.

Also, getting the Titanium client might be offputting for some.

Having played wow recently, these are exactly the kind of people I DON'T want to play with. More convenience = less community and p99 is one of the last bastions of real MMO community on the internet.

[nerdvsgeek]

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

Their largest hangup is availability of the Titanium client.

[Nikkanu]

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 main objection some of my old EQ friends had about the idea of playing on p99 was CRs and the bigger objection for new players is no maps.

[Psykes]

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

because no one wants to start fresh on P99 server that has an economy that is screwed up and content monopolized for the past 4+ years...people want fresh box and start even with everyone else

[Swish]

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

because no one wants to start fresh on P99 server that has an economy that is screwed up and content monopolized for the past 4+ years...people want fresh box and start even with everyone else

..:and based on Daybreak's attempt at classic Everquest, less classic Everquest and more cash shop. Station cash, fuck yeah, you love it.

[skip]

I would go so far to say that 95% of the technical issues new players would have are extremely well-known, and the solution easily found on the tech forums. You have to be *really* lazy to not figure out how to run this old thing.

Well-known, and 75% of search results point to answers that are wrong. I just went through installing P99 on a new macbook and it took a couple of hours to get up and running. (Go ahead make comments about how Mac is shit, that's going to really help population)

Their largest hangup is availability of the Titanium client.

^ This.

Can staff post a full download to the main page now the Daybreak has "acknowledged" this server or whatever?