Give the people what they want! Luclin!

[loramin]

Originally Posted by Ankara99 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The people demand justice, they demand the Snake Temple and Fungus grove.

"The people" are more than welcome to code Luclin themselves.

(And, in all honesty, if someone did take the time to make a truly accurate Luclin expansion, I'd be a little surprised if the P99 team wouldn't be willing to help them turn it into a classic server, possibly even sharing precious code and database secrets. R&N may hate Luclin, but they also love accurately recreating EQ on emulated servers.)

[branamil]

Literally just play TAKP. Better client and the devs are still active on the project, unlike p99

[Graahle]

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

Literally just play TAKP. Better client and the devs are still active on the project, unlike p99

This. Except the general majority of the player base here doesn't actually want classic. "You think you do, but you don't" type of thing.

For example: Take away mouse wheel scrolling and watch how many people bitch and cry ad nauseam

[cd288]

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

The legality issue I would assume has more to do with how much more money and power Sony has. Somebody somewhere understood that this project exists purely out of love for their game, so for a company that big it's just really bad PR to shut down something like this.

Could be totally wrong but that was always the vibe I got after the whole daybreak acquisition thing.

I mean yeah definitely. It's a cost benefit analysis. The amount of people playing on P99 isn't going to make a material impact on your revenue if you're Daybreak (or whoever now acquired Daybreak). So it's bad PR for little benefit, and there's always the chance that P99 introduces someone to/back into EQ and makes them go try the TLPs so you get customers you maybe otherwise wouldn't have gotten (so free advertising basically).

Would be interesting to see what would happen if P99 suddenly got like several thousand people playing. I think you'd suddenly see the EQ owners being a lot less willing to allow P99 to exist. It's their IP so they could easily shut this down unless they signed a legal agreement saying they never would no matter what.

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

This. Except the general majority of the player base here doesn't actually want classic. "You think you do, but you don't" type of thing.

For example: Take away mouse wheel scrolling and watch how many people bitch and cry ad nauseam

Meh don't think people would really complain. You can essentially get the same affect as mouse wheel scrolling by using some view keys: take the view from behind your character and use keys to zoom out and tilt the camera up or down and boom there you go. And I believe this was doable in classic too, people just didn't because up to that point you didn't really have these third person view games, most were first person, so people just didn't think to do it.

[Ooloo]

The legality issue I would assume has more to do with how much more money and power Sony has. Somebody somewhere understood that this project exists purely out of love for their game, so for a company that big it's just really bad PR to shut down something like this.

Could be totally wrong but that was always the vibe I got after the whole daybreak acquisition thing.

[Ooloo]

I will admit that if the client was locked to 1024x768 max res with no widescreen option (even though titanium widescreen just chops the top and bottom off and there's like no vertical realestate, I can pretend) I'd be pretty bummed, even though it would certainly be classic.

Not many things like that for me though, classic 4 lyfe

[Mazoku]

Join TAK if you want Luclin etc. Otherwise NO!

[Graahle]

Great post. Bazaar is great; tunnel quest was never good.

[Chortles Snortles]

^^this guy gets it

[ThonDaMan]

Luclin was the beginning of the end of what made EQ great, like cd288 said the bazaar killed the tunnel, PC was stupid, AA turned a long grind into an infinite one.

PoK in PoP destroyed the world, where you can just click to travel instead of running somewhere or calling in a ride - that you still had to run to the spires / ring to meet your uber.

Just awful all around, and the people clamoring for it here can get bent and play TLP.