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[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.

[wwoneo]

I've been playing on Ragefire lately. I wanted to try out a fresh server. It is nothing like P99. Aside from the long queue time. I can get past that. The server is actually terrible compared to P99 and has made me respect Nilbog, Rogean, Sirken, Ephi, and the rest of the team so much more. P.S. I made a donation tonight to p99 even though I haven't been playing on the server lately.

[rekreant]

If they made a new sever, and put it at 1 yr for each expansion, and even considered adding Luclin or PoP while maintaining the attention to detail and integrity, this server would get all of the players. All of them.

[Swish]

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

If they made a new sever, and put it at 1 yr for each expansion, and even considered adding Luclin or PoP while maintaining the attention to detail and integrity, this server would get all of the players. All of them.

It would allow boxing, it wouldn't get all of us.. but a good chunk I'm sure [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Deckk]

It's amusing because I logged into EQ Live (Silver Restrictions) last night for the first time in a long time. Logged onto Vox, their newest server. The low level population in the Tutorial Mines zone was pretty high.

But man, it's a totally different EQ. It's extremely complicated, you get spells every level (including the shadowknight I rolled, which was quite odd), zones are extremely crowded due to mercs and players running around and the community doesn't even speak to each other.

I mean, don't get me wrong... In a pinch with no p99 it could be alright. But it's a different game. I wouldn't say it's even EQ anymore. It's more WoW with EQ baselines. Plus, as a silver (which is no longer offered) I can't wear certain types of armor... so playing a tank is extremely unrealistic.

p99 IS EQ.

[Swish]

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

It's amusing because I logged into EQ Live (Silver Restrictions) last night for the first time in a long time. Logged onto Vox, their newest server. The low level population in the Tutorial Mines zone was pretty high.

But man, it's a totally different EQ. It's extremely complicated, you get spells every level (including the shadowknight I rolled, which was quite odd), zones are extremely crowded due to mercs and players running around and the community doesn't even speak to each other.

I mean, don't get me wrong... In a pinch with no p99 it could be alright. But it's a different game. I wouldn't say it's even EQ anymore. It's more WoW with EQ baselines. Plus, as a silver (which is no longer offered) I can't wear certain types of armor... so playing a tank is extremely unrealistic.

p99 IS EQ.

Yep, the soul got ripped out of it for sure.

Some popular YouTubers tried it last year... If you can get past the "funnies", you'll see what it's become :/

**WARNING: contains Luclin models**

[fadetree]

Sirken, don't worry about people being vehemently against P99. There's a reason that live got so easy and ridiculous; it's because they were desperately chasing the crowd. Any given crowd is mostly composed of people who just want a quick diversion. I like the fact that so many people won't come play...we have a good pop now anyways. The people who *do* come think EQ is srs bsns and they...well not enjoy I guess...but understand what the mechanics like no boxing and cr's and so forth actually produce.

I do think you guys should take it into PoP. PoP was the pinnacle of EQ. After you release Velious, announce that you've rethought the PoP limitation and will be progressing towards that, and you'll see a huge bump. Just my two cents. Even if it was on a new server of it's own. Starting afresh with a correctly done PoP server, no boxing? Priceless.

[Deckk]

I, too, think that further expansions are a great idea. Maybe not some of the mechanics (AA's, Soul binder, Mercs) but the content, classes (Beastlord), races (Froglok, Vah'Shir) and added levels would be nice. At least through PoP.

Having said that, though, I appreciate the server and the decisions that have been made to run the server. So I'm not going to complain either way.