Why don't more people play here?

[myriverse]

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

Adults don't spend hours staring at video game monster placeholders. Adults don't have people text them on their phone so they can run over to the PC, log in, and spend hours killing a monster. Adults don't play 12 hours a day.

Not 12 hours a day, but many EQ players back in 1999 were 30+ years old.

[Man0warr]

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

Adults don't spend hours staring at video game monster placeholders. Adults don't have people text them on their phone so they can run over to the PC, log in, and spend hours killing a monster. Adults don't play 12 hours a day.

I do all those things except play 12 hours a day - also it takes minutes to kill a monster, not hours.

When staring at video game monster placeholders (tracking), we are usually shooting the shit in Vent or multitasking, stuff you'd be doing with your free time anyways.

[Lady Julae]

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

Adults don't spend hours staring at video game monster placeholders. Adults don't have people text them on their phone so they can run over to the PC, log in, and spend hours killing a monster. Adults don't play 12 hours a day.

But what if there is an adult who owns their own business and makes stupid amounts of money and chooses to spend 12 hours a day on their super gaming PC playing P99 and have friends text them on their expensive smart phone to play with them?

[waffel]

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

But what if there is an adult who owns their own business and makes stupid amounts of money and chooses to spend 12 hours a day on their super gaming PC playing P99 and have friends text them on their expensive smart phone to play with them?

Nobody that successful can justify wasting 12 hours a day playing a video game. It's simply something successful people don't do.

[Tiewon Shu]

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

Nobody that successful can justify wasting 12 hours a day playing a video game. It's simply something successful people don't do.

I disagree.

I own forty seven apartment complexes globally. My annual net profit is well over 2.5 million USD. All I do is wake up at 6 AM, get my kids ready for school, then sit on my butt and make money. So while I sit on my butt for 8+hours, I surf the web and play games, (mostly play games).

I live a good life with my significant other and kids. I have stupid amounts of free time even after attending to my family and business responsibilities.

So tell me, just what am I supposed to be doing with all that time to kill?

[Itap]

Because Zander, we are hoping for more than 1 blue server

[heartbrand]

At the end of the day, people claim they hate instances and the WoWification of the Modern MMO, but in reality they just want to be able to log in and slay dragons undisturbed on a schedule. When people realize this isn't going to happen, they get frustrated and move on.

[Pint]

More ppl dont play here bc its not 1999 and this game isn't cutting edge or groundbreaking anymore, did you really not know the answer to this question?

[Razdeline]

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

With a peak population of ~ 2,000 active players (including red and blue servers), that seems quite small when you look at the amount of active subscribers in the classic era of EverQuest. What reasons do you think we do not have more players here? Do people not like pre-luclin gameplay/content? Do people just not know that P99 exists? Kids that played 16 years ago are now adults and have no interest in online games?

I understand when SoV is released, the population will increase, but with more than 200,000 subscribers in 1999, you would think that more people would be inclined to play here, especially since it's free. I would like one day to see the population grow so much that the devs are able to open a second server identical to the current servers.

You're numbers are off. You are comparing the people currently logged in, not the whole player base. That number is probably closer to 10k.(my guess) Secondly, the active people on any given server from that era was around 1800ish.(during that era looking at a screenshot someone posted a while back)

Considering it's 16 years later, this server is beyond in good shape population wise.

[Itap]

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

You're numbers are off. You are comparing the people currently logged in, not the whole player base. That number is probably closer to 10k.(my guess) Secondly, the active people on any given server from that era was around 1800ish.(during that era looking at a screenshot someone posted a while back)

Considering it's 16 years later, this server is beyond in good shape population wise.

There can be 50,000 registered ppl here, but it doesn't really matter if only 1500 of them log in per day.

And pint, this game may be old and not "groundbreaking" anymore, but It's still one of the best mmos to date. The Lore alone is enough to get even the neckbeardiest of nerds to play