Stagnant. What's the server population hitting at peak?

Stagnant apparently.

Swish I swear to god you're on crack with the analogies you smoke up

Wrong answer.

Live Everquest is on expansion #20 or something like that. The numbers get bigger. You get more things to click. In-game life gets a little easier in some ways and harder in others. Certain classes get relatively stronger while others get relatively weaker.

In the end you're just taking a percentage bar from 100% to 0% ad nauseum, navigating the world and bullshitting with other humans. Kunark is a pretty cool expansion.

Damnit I think I just convinced myself to start the one class I've never played: a druid. Worthless scum. Port me.

I'm currently one of those people! But if Velious came out tomorrow, I would be f'ing stoked.

Even people that just started should want Velious if they ever want to see Kunark content.

And I wouldn't worry about stagnation after Velious. The devs aren't just going to let a project they invested so much time into die off slowly. There will be years to think of a creative solution to keep people around.

Like posting in them? hurrrrr derp.

they'll open a new blue server following the exact timeline and patch releases

i came

If they don't shut it down on the eve of Luclin release it'll be deemed "not classic" and self destruct.

Plus server maintenance times (often 9 hours or more) should be mirrored if an "exact timeline" is what people are craving. To do otherwise would offend those bent on keeping to that timeline.

I wouldn't rule out non classic, post Velious content in some form when the time comes. Or custom content. They aren't just going to let stuff die. It may be 3-4 years from now but they'll think of something (with community input I'm sure).

Putting in PoP without the hub...basically make the planes a zone in from the existing classic world or as a wizard port (like existing planes are) with custom tuned mobs/bosses/loot or something. Just thinking out loud on that one but I could see something like that happening.