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[QuantumZebra]

Originally Posted by Life617 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I think if they added separate instances like they have on live, p99 would be a much more enjoyable experience for everyone.

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[Lune]

Prepare your wallets for the cash shop

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[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.

[nerdvsgeek]

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

I wonder how many people are boxing a couple accounts while a few thousand people wait in the queue~

I the two days I ran around two the newbie zones, Innothule and Everfrost, two-boxing was very common and mage-bot armies (e.g. one guy boxing a full six-character group of mages) were encountered multiple times.

I really do like the fact that there's no boxing here.

[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.

[Nikkanu]

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.

Also this.

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

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.

But maybe for some people, it is just some basic misguided mistrust. They think some monster virus from out of hell is going to eat their pron or something. Little do they know that the browser they use is more of a monster virus from out of hell.

Unless maybe their trepidation is right. Maybe this entire scheme is actually a botnet for the Chinese government. Makes sense. Server isn't going to Luclin because, after the snafus having to say "Velious" created for their hackers, asking them to say "Luclin" was just a bridge too far. The Chi-coms run a tight ship, but not that tight.

[DanaDark]

As someone that just started... Today... What made me avoid so long?

I don't know. Lack of advertising so I know? Not really... I knew but had moved on and didn't see anything that really brought me back.

Difficulty of install? I am a computer guy and it was super easy. But it wasn't just double click to win, so I can assume 3/4 people like me stopped right there.

Pals I know, say it is too hard core. Corpse run being the ultimate hindrance to joining.

I started... Having a blast in a cloth shirt killing stuff in 32x32 textures... But in time it may grow old. Community keeps me.

Hopefully I stay. I loved the EQ Trinity.

[Nakander]

Hello,

This is my first post, but I thought I'd say why I haven't tried P99 for all these years. First let me say that now that I've tried it I feel pretty stupid for avoiding it all these years. I was present for Sleeper and then Vulak and now Ragefire, and in the first few days P99 has blown them all right out of the water (in my opinion).

I didn't try P99 mainly because I thought SOE would come after it sooner or later and shut it down. The only negative thing I ever heard about P99 (though it is important to note that I never really paid much attention to P99), was that the high level/raiding community was especially mean (or toxic, as the kids say nowadays).

That's all. Thank you

[Swish]

Theres more to it than this, all the reasons above (maps, more expansions, boxing etc)... you can certainly see why people wouldnt want to go "hardcore" but there's still PEQ which does all of those things.

Red is going to overtake it in population soon, arguably already has given that you can't box on red.