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Originally Posted by armyveteran248
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I honestly hope Daybreak decides to buy P1999 and starts selling access. The rate at which bugs get fixed would go up, and the customer service mentality of the devs and GMs would change: it would go from being "its our server, play by our rules or we will destroy you" to "this is making us money and we need to treat players like customers."
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Did you never play EQ live during the Verant era? Why on earth do you think that a for-profit company would ever not have the "it's our server" mentality?? The slogan was "you're in our world now". I saw people banned for calling me (on my Guide toon) an asshole. Nothing more than that and a GM in a bad mood. I saw my server GM kill Inny because 2 guilds kept training each other, but not intentionally, trying to get to it. Look up Abashi and see how they engaged the community.
There were so many bugs, some weren't fixed for years and are now considered "classic" such as the way boats in OOT went the wrong direction but was never even attempted to be fixed. Or multi-questing. Faction mistakes. Illusions (such as those under gnome illusion appearing huge to anyone who zones in after). Their own bugs were often called "exploits" rather than fixing them.
John Smedley ran Verant then and runs Daybreak now. Use your head!