Why don't more people play here?

[Fame]

If it looks like there is the population for two stable servers, get a gofundme or kickstarter rolling for additional costs.

[Sajuuk]

I agree with the other people asking "Why would you want more people?" If it's worth camping, or raiding, it's perma camped. Blue seems overcrowded which is why I enjoy playing on red sometimes.

But to add to the discussion..

My RL friend who have played eq with me on live are more interested in WoW still. And we played back in 2004 so we were dealing with PoP which to them, the classic doesnt compare. (Yes I know you classic nuts are saying "Good we dont want them here!").

I have shown other friends, who enjoy MMOs, p99 and the graphics make them laugh out loud and then ask "Why would you enjoy this?"

Plus, combat in video games has become so fast paced that EQ is like watching a japanese RPG fight while you have games like WoW where you can cast 20million spells in a second.

When I played live, I got to kill every god in PoP except for Quirm. I eventually became bored because I was 14 at the time and going into high school and I wanted a chance to lose my virginity. I felt accomplished what I got to do with my guild during PoP that it felt right to quit when I did.

Why did I come back? Because I never explored the old worlds including kunark and velious. I was pampered with plane of knowlegde. As a dark elf shadow knight, I never had to worry about being a evil race with PoK. There was so much pampering that I knew I missed out of immersion (yes Im a dork, thats why Im here, I would roleplay if people actually did that in a mmoRPg). So here I am killing gnolls for the first time and seeing a EC tunnel full of people. Its a huge change that I love and wish I joined this server years ago.

Normal people who never played EQ in the first place wont have reasons like this to come to a ridiculously old outdated mmo.

And oh ya, downloading titanium was very scare for a non torrent user like myself. I am computer savvy enough to do torrents but ALOT of other people wont be comfortable enough. Like my buddies who play WoW would never be able to figure out how to install even if they were giving a step by step guide with pictures.

How did I even find out about p99? By playing live f2p for a week and reading in general chat about p99. Took me 6months after thinking about p99 to join only because I was bored with all the other video games I had and wanted a nostalgic experience.

My god did it work. I never want to leave again. It was like playing EQ for the first time again. And this is knowing I will NEVER BE ABLE TO RAID EVERVEEVVEVRVEVR R R E R R R EVEVEVREVER EVER EVER EVER. I did have goals to koll dragons on this server but the forums have told me to forget my dreams and conform.

[chipz]

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

I fixed that for you.

Back in 1999, sure. Not anymore sir.

[uolen]

Me personally, I played many MMO's and found an EQ emulator a year or so before P99 launched. Played that server, which allowed boxing, and had increased xp. Leved up my 2 fav classes fast and farmed all my items I wanted, got bored, quit EQ again. took a couple months to get my nostalgia fix.

Now P99 has been out how long, and I couldnt find any other MMO's to play. Decided to check out P99 and boom Im hooked again for the time being. Many other EQEmu's have been out before P99 came out. In that respect, P99 is not that big of a deal.

Plus, if more people played P99 then there would be more than 1 bard constantly pulling every roamer in LoIO making it impossible to level. Seriously have no problem with banning the entire bard class.

[Ennewi]

They read the forums and think it's representative of the overall player base.

[Swish]

Honestly I'd make RNF not viewable without logging in lol

[webrunner5]

I think the main reason on here is that most people now, after 16 years of EQ, have moved out of their moms basement, and actually have a Real Life. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Priceline]

Games and gamers have evolved a great deal since 1999, most folks less a tiny minority don't want to transcend space and time to relive the glory days of mmo's. 99.999% of the people want fast action combat, instanced content, and R99 like exp bonuses.

We're the equivalent to that one guys dad you knew in high school who said music stopped being good in the 60's and refused to only use one spritz of patchouli. damn hippies

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

If P99 opened two new servers one for PvE and one for PvP Teams as "Beta/population test/trial" servers it would potentially generate significant interest. If you couple that with the new interest generated from daybreak, add some incentiviced forumquest, anything is possible.

Dare to dream.

I agree with this. Perhaps opening additional servers will invite those players that don't want to start here because they feel like they are so "behind". After farming 4 years of kunark, they may have a point

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Originally Posted by webrunner5 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I think the main reason on here is that most people now, after 16 years of EQ, have moved out of their moms basement, and actually have a Real Life. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I usually respect your posts but this is absurd. My family of 5 fits perfectly in my mothers basement