Will 1999 ever happen again?

[Morningbreath]

With even WoW making the news for losing subs hand over fist, does anybody else think a tougher MMO could be on the horizon?

Even though "sandbox" has become the latest trend I wonder if we're not too far away from a more challenging PVE MMO. P99's population has been gradually ticking upward since I started playing in 2013...I don't know about other people but I keep coming back for the challenge and rewarding nature of the game.

[fan D]

yea game is so hard im literally BiS every piece

[Tasslehofp99]

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

yea game is so hard im literally BiS every piece

red don't count b that's a dead box

[JackFlash]

Originally Posted by Tasslehofp99 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

red don't count b that's a dead box

Long line of neckbeards=harder or something? lol...

[radda]

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

yea game is so hard im literally BiS every piece

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[grimmier]

the last MMO I felt even close to the same level of immersion Post EQ in was Vanguard, before patches broke things and they weren't fixed and then sony shut down the server.

The PVP server had a thriving community raid vs raid battles for content were fun and happened often, before SOE decided to merge all the servers into one. FTP never helped the game as they didn't fix the broken aspects of the game from prior patches.

[thufir]

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

the last MMO I felt even close to the same level of immersion Post EQ in was Vanguard, before patches broke things and they weren't fixed and then sony shut down the server.

The PVP server had a thriving community raid vs raid battles for content were fun and happened often, before SOE decided to merge all the servers into one. FTP never helped the game as they didn't fix the broken aspects of the game from prior patches.

FTP also crippled major aspects of the game, like the actual acquisition of loot. It just wasn't worth playing under that ruleset.

But otherwise I completely agree with you. I wish they'd make a vanguard emu. It was the true successor to EQ and the only MMO that ever came close to duplicating the original experience for me.

[Jaleth]

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

FTP also crippled major aspects of the game, like the actual acquisition of loot. It just wasn't worth playing under that ruleset.

But otherwise I completely agree with you. I wish they'd make a vanguard emu. It was the true successor to EQ and the only MMO that ever came close to duplicating the original experience for me.

http://vgoplayers.com/index.php

Still working on it, but the world is there.

[Aesop]

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

yea game is so hard im literally BiS every piece

You got to put this little nut hanger in context.

He can't see past his own experience of showing up for every raid, hitting autoattack and backstab on every dragon and thinks because his experience is easy that the whole encounter is easy.

There was a whole group of people who worked hard before you waddled over from blue and hung on like a dingleberry from the nuts of Empire. Those people who run the guild day to day, keep people logging in, recruiting, running raids and generally doing all the difficult work while you run your mouth in ooc about how good at pvp you are BiS every slot as a rogue.

Anyways, just had to put you in context Fandango, you are literally Gongshow's trust fund kid.

I think Feanol has a point. The other thing about EQ and we have discussed this over on Tallon Zek Times quite a few times is a good balance of RvR and negative mechanics that encourage team play (exp loss, needing ports, hard dungeons, challenging mechanics) but also balanced with actually rewarding content is what made EQ magical.

Plus we can never discount that EQ was the first real MMO. That counts for a lot.

Now we have p1999 where everyone knows all the secrets, and back then no one knew hardly any of the secrets. People kept that shit to themselves. I remember when someone taught me how to joust as a rogue that shit changed my LIFE.

Plus pumice.

This is on a pvp server mind you. One that wasn't filled with a bunch of childlike sociopaths.

[sox7d]

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

yea game is so hard im literally BiS every piece

only took you 17 years