Project 1999 Pantheon Pledge Drive!

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

McQuaid is a cancer. His mismanagement of Vanguard led to the past seven years of WoW-clones. Industry executives saw that even with his cache, a non-WoW game was not worth the risk. He did this. He's the reason the whole genre sucks.

Regardless of the your opinions of McQuaid, the fact is you are still playing his game over a decade later and that speaks to his abilities to create and undercuts yours to criticize. Whether he can pull it off, I think, will be one of if not the most defining moment of his career, if for no other reason than to shut up the Vanguard naysayers.

But imo the bigger picture is being ignored here. The more attention Pantheon receives, while it is in the building stages, the more P99 can expect a population increase both from new players bored with soloable MMORPGs and old returning players who miss group-oriented gameplay. And for what new players P99 stands to gain these rewards seem almost negligible in the long-term.

If you think this is a step back from classic EQ, well, technically so are frog-pots and earthquakes. Personally, I've lost absolutely zero sleep over these things, sorry if you did. And there have also been week-long DDOS attacks and sudden hamster deaths, which I think we all lost sleep over. But if anything, these things have made the server more memorable and added a specific charm to it, classic or not.

Anyway, more recently there have been a lot of veteran classic players arriving on the scene who never heard about P99 before Pantheon, despite previous community efforts to get the word out. And, should Pantheon get off the ground as far as funding goes, I imagine this server could expect more of the same, possibly even seeing classic-era population numbers. Who's going to QQ about a few leftover XP pots / guises floating around at that point?

Again, thinking long-term here.

Pantheon is the long overdue publicity this server deserves. And afaik, it's also the best option for classic trilogy fans in the foreseeable future. If or rather when McQuaid's team recaptures that old addictive magic, P99 will have, with this decision, played a role in helping bring the MMORPG genre back to its roots. What's not to like about this becoming more and more of a RL group effort (SotA included)? It's what the genre itself encourages or at least used to. It's just all around good for the currently lackluster, undifferentiated MMORPG genre as a whole. And once Velious content has been thoroughly plowed through on here and server-wide interest wanes, who knows? We might just actually have a fresh, dynamic, ass-kicking, stretegy-based game to play together, instead of another insta-grat playground which will eventually deteriorate into a virtual refugee camp.

Pantheon isn't the P99 staff's game. They are gamers just as much as we are, only they're the ones holding the keys to the kingdom just as McQuaid will once again imo.

/assist Pantheon