SoE is missing money

[Ghesta]

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

How can SoE not think that 500+ people at peak times, and 200-400 during off hours, is not enough to make an official classic everquest server?

Everyone that's posted on this thread has missed one very obvious, and HUGE point. Bear with me while I explain.


If they opened a classic server, hell let's call it the p1999 server, they wouldn't get 1000 old players to return. What would instead happen would be they might get 900 old players to return, then they'd have 6,000 to 10,000 of their CURRENT players switch from the luclin server, Rathe, etc over to their p1999 server.

Now those other servers which had a good balance load are now unbalanced. Players on the Rathe start bitching that there's no one playing there and some switch servers, but others decide that it's time to quit EQ.

Meanwhile half of the people on their p1999 server bitch that it's too crowded on p1999 with 3000+ online at peak hours, giving SOE one of two choices. Choice 1: they open a SECOND server - the P1999b server. This generates another problem as 3/4ths of the p1999a server jump ship and now p1999b is overcrowded. More people like you, me, and others on this thread get frustrated and quit everquest again. SOE nets $30 to $45 from us "returning" players who quit again. Choice 2: they ignore the problem, leading to the exact same problem, but save themselves the time and cost of setting up the second p1999b server.

In the meantime back on the normal servers server population has dipped on 1 or 2 servers so badly that they now have to combine servers in order to prevent any other playerbase bleeding. This costs time and money.

Eventually the player population swing levels out somewhat. With the gain and loss of players, an optimum estimate would be to say they would gain 1000 players for over a year.

Now they have a VERY challenging server that needs GM staffing, and special attention. Do they put rubi in the game? How often do they release the expansions? Do they let manastones work anywhere / no where? There's a lot of questions to be asked, and for every single one of them, there's going to be 3 people; the guy who loves the decision, the guy who hates the decision, and the guy who thinks SOE is retarded and should let him have a full set of rubi since his main character is level 352 with 19,023,236 AA points on the prexus server.





Considering ALL that, if the other choice is to simply sit back, and let the servers that they have keep on bringing in cash as they focus their time, resources, and money elsewhere........ can you really still wonder why SOE isn't doing this?