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01-16-2019, 05:06 PM
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Getting people to play P99
So most of us are here because we used to play on live years ago. The game is amazing but part of the allure is nostalgia.
I am wondering if anyone has had success convincing friends or family to play who have not played EQ before. I have several MMO fans in my life, but they are apprehensive to try such an old game. I am fairly confident that if they actually gave the game a try they would be into it. But that initial few hours of play is where I struggle to get them excited. Any tips or tricks? great videos? huge selling points I am missing? Thanks in advance! | ||
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#2
01-16-2019, 05:13 PM
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But if they are at all interested in "oldies but goodies", I'd really play up the "it's a goodie" angle. There's a reason people used to call this game "EverCrack", and you should emphasize that it wasn't just the first MMO, it was also the best for a long time (for years, up until WoW).
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#4
01-16-2019, 05:20 PM
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The only reason any of us are here is because of nostalgia from a different era. The people that play this have to go decently out of their way to do so. You’re just not going to “stumble” onto this game like you could have back in 1999
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01-16-2019, 05:26 PM
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The first 4 hours of EQ are the best! Trying to find that rusty 2 handed sword for those 1 hit kills; scrabbling together a full set of cloth armor; getting started tailoring your own set of armour, working towards that first pet for mages. Finding your first friends to go wreck some gnolls, goblins or orcs!
After that, the content you do struggles to actually provided upgrades you can use, and instead many find the game starts to drag, becoming an xp farm so you can plat farm to buy the pixels you couldn't earn yourself. | ||
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01-16-2019, 06:50 PM
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But then I noticed something. By the time I was 60 and decided to play a Cleric my bank account for the Druid had 10K PP (which is nothing on this server). But even with that modest amount I was able to buy cheap wis gear for the cleric, a decent weapon and all his spells were in bags waiting for him to hit each new spell level. It wasn't the same. I don't think my Cleric even bothered to loot a corpse till he was in his 40's when the mobs were finally dropping PP coin and items.
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Last edited by kaluppo; 01-16-2019 at 06:52 PM..
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#7
01-16-2019, 05:30 PM
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It will only be nostalgia until we start a fresh server and progress to Velious again. That's when you can recruit people, not when every group has 300k geared group mates.
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01-16-2019, 05:58 PM
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Everquest was not the first 3d graphical mmo tho
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