EXP bonus for new players from mac server?

[Hitchens]

I don't want to go salmon fishing at all. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Pomaikai]

The sky is blue. You may now argue against that for the sake of arguing, Hitch.
/sigh

[Rubexcube666]

you do the fishing, i'll do the eating... mmmmmm salmon

[inyane]

As for the mac users...well, that server has been around a long time. Long before bootcamp, and macs being able to run windows.

I would suspect more of them would run to the regular eq servers playing with a windows client vs coming here

[Hitchens]

Just having a little fun with your metaphor.

You see argument, I see two people exchanging ideas. Perspectives are funny like that.

[Rubexcube666]

Shhh inyane, dont' give them ideas.

[Pomaikai]

Exchanging ideas is one thing. Being stubborn for the sake of being stubborn because it makes your insides do a Snoopy dance is another thing. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Hitchens]

You seem to be under the impression that I disagree with you merely for the sake of it.

That's not the case. I disagree because I simply disagree, just like you disagree with me simply because you do. And that's okay.

[Pomaikai]

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

As for the mac users...well, that server has been around a long time. Long before bootcamp, and macs being able to run windows.

I would suspect more of them would run to the regular eq servers playing with a windows client vs coming here

See, I disagree because SOE isn't letting them move their characters to another server. Me? I'd feel pretty damned betrayed that SOE wouldn't take the time, after all the years of my paying them a monthly usage fee, to manually recreate characters on another server for them. Sure, they might have to wait a while for it to all happen, but SOE should have been proactive and have done this in advance before announcing the closure. SOE could have made these diehard fans whole, and yet they didn't. They screwed them good and hard. I know I wouldn't be all that eager to reward someone who did that to me. In fact, the concept of playing the game for free and in a roundabout way "sticking it to the man" by playing EQ on P1999 instead of on a regular SOE server would sort of feel like justice.

[fischsemmel]

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

I don't recall saying that more players won't benefit the server.

I'm saying that there's no reason to believe that a week long experience bonus will translate into a sustained larger player base. The experience bonus will have to end eventually, at which point experience levels return to normal. If a player is unsatisfied with the experience rate on P1999, a paltry week of an increased rate will mean very little.

If you can present a logical counter-argument to this, I'm all ears. But I don't really do appeals to emotion.

My gut feeling that an xp bonus will lure in some players beyond those who would join without an xp bonus, which will then result in at least some of those extra players staying, is as legitimate a thought as your gut feeling that all of the players who sign up just because of the bonus xp will be unable to handle the normal xp rate, and therefore will quit when the bonus dries up.

It's cool to ignore the fact that your thoughts on the issue are just as empirically and quantitatively baseless as mine are, though, and then to call me out to present a "logical counter-argument," as if a logical argument had been made for me to counter.