There's definitely a quality of life argument to be made for the Bazaar, but I think if that's implemented it should come later in the timeline. Some point in the Kunark era perhaps, once the server has matured a bit. For all of its flaws, there's an undeniable magic to the Classic EQ experience, which includes the EC tunnel as a trading hub. If you change that formula, you rob people of a large part of the nostalgia they're obviously looking for by choosing to play a nearly 25 year old game.
I definitely don't agree that Nexus and porting spires should be available from day one, though. That completely changes the feel of the game. Something like that should only be considered if the server pop was so low that ports were not widely available, which doesn't seem like it will be the case given the interest Quarm is generating. That stuff should only be released with Luclin, as per the live timeline.
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