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

Well see the problem with your thesis here is that I find raiding on P99 extremely fun. And if another guild gets a mob, it's fun to figure out what you did wrong and how to correct it strategically in the future, notwithstanding the simple meta which as I said earlier I do wish would be changed to be harder and more unpredictable. And sure, I have no doubt that instanced raiding would likely inflate the population, but so what? We already know that, look at wow's sub numbers. That's not the point of this project though, this project is specifically intended for a certain playstyle, and despite all the moaning green still had 1000+ concurrent last night. I'm perfectly happy admitting that I like a niche thing, who cares.

The whole "it's a 20 year old game" thing is another fallacious point; what game HASNT been completely figured out that is even one year old or more at this point? Almost nothing. You're also doing the mind reading thing where you think you know everyone else' s motivations for raiding competitively on p99. You don't; you're just projecting a kind of generic charicature of p99 raiders on hundreds of people you don't know and have never met.

It never ceases to amaze me when people complain that p99 should abandon one of it's core principles (that is, no instancing). Like, there are tons of mmos that have it. You can even play classic EQ on a tlp with instancing. There's stuff I'd like changed here but really not very much. The only things that come to mind are things that were clearly oversights or bugs by the devs, like druid track being completely useless and broken for most of the timeline until late velious, stuff like that.

I don't even raid in a "top" guild, I do raid in a guild that competes with top guilds and sometimes wins targets, and it's just a ton of fun to see how a given encounter plays out especially when it's contested... It's just really fun, dunno what to tell ya.

Little bit tough to take anyone who is a vaccine conspiracy theorist seriously.