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Originally Posted by Kelven
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Everyone feels that just because you created a character here and spent hours sitting here leveling that you're entitled to have a say in what goes on?
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You're forgetting half of the equation that, ironically, has become pretty apparent in the last few years to the rest of the business world. Do you use Yelp? Same shit. Consumers effectively culling out inferior products through the power of their patronage. The result is better restaurants succeeding. In OUR case, however, there are no alternatives; I can't just go eat somewhere else.
A service is a service is a service regardless of whether you pay for it or not. Right now the p99 is being viewed as inferior to other acceptable gaming experiences provided in a million different places around the net. If people don't like what you're doing, they're going to opt for something else and without those players on your box, there is no P99. However, since there's no alternative, we get threads like this from people who want to stay and no opinion from people who have left that aren't Azeth... or me...
So, Hasbinbad arguing that some or all of these dissension posts are intentionally trying to undermine p99 just doesn't fly with me when the option to just leave is open and might I say popular. Fix the big issues and the symptoms that present themselves (this thread, truthing, hasbinbad qq's, torches and pitchforks, the Brawny approach) will go away and the blissful peace of Tralina boob pic threads will once again return unto dewy meadows of the RnF forum.
The consequence of doing nothing to remedy the perception that this server is corrupt and thus inferior, not that it's pertinent: P99 will dry up and blow away the second an alternative comes along as a result of the input of players into the system being less than those leaving. I'll repeat what I said earlier, the novelty of "The Classic EQ Experience" is part of what has allowed the server to continue existing despite turnover. I evidence this with the fact that we are not alone in our pursuit of Classic EQ and there exists a mostly separate community, EQC.