Lord Nagafen & Lady Vox status (post 52 restriction)

[Cyrano]

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

The server population is high at the moment, but this type of asshattery will not be good in the long term for the server. My main just got to raiding level and I just don't really see the value in raiding on here. I do not have the time to log in every night for 4+ hours let alone the insane amount of time poopsocking takes. I am married and a professional, you know like 40-60 hours a week, pay taxes, dress nice, no government assistance, ringing any bells? Probably not. I would guess to say that I am a good sample of atleast 1/3rd of the population that has played P99 since its inception. Are we a good sample at the current time? I doubt it, because I doubt a lot of people like me have stuck around.
In 2000 I picked up this game for the first time during Velious. I thought it was kind of fun, but one day I saw a Paladin run by, flaming sword in hand. That day changed the way I played this game. I saw the driving force for all people that play this game. Sweet loot. As I leveled, I learned about raiding and how that would get me more sweet loot, so I got into raiding and thoroughly enjoyed taking down Naggy and Vox and some of the other easier bosses.
The reason I logged into P99 the first time was pure nostalgia. The reason I kept logging in was enjoyment of leveling. Now, I am burned on leveling and I want to raid, but seeing the level of commitment and time it will take is a big let down. On Drinal we had Cats in Hats, and all the 12 year olds peed their pants when Ubar ran by. From what I saw, everyone looked up to that guild and their leader as great individuals. They were the ones that made me want to play and get gear and get an epic, because I looked up to them.
Your guilds "moral high ground" is a pit. You are so far down that no light is reaching you so you can realize how far you have sunk. No one looks up to you, and people like me just don't have time for the bull you guys love to pull. If I am on a raid and you guys leapfrog my guild in the 3 hours I get a week for raiding, I am going to get angry.
I am not going to use that anger to ignore my family to play more. I am not going to quit my job. I am not going to give my guild leader my phone number so he can bat phone me. I am just going to go do something else, because my time is the most valuable thing I have, and you are basically stealing it from me.
Yes, competition does exist and it is healthy, but you guys are competing against individuals that do not have the plethora of time that your whole raiding guild seems to somehow possess, and so, a lot of us, won't compete with you. Yay, you won! Congratulations! Just know that one day you will run into EC and there will be no one there to check your awesome gear, chat with you, or buy the 50th CoF you just farmed.
One of the tags says TR's private server, and the way you are behaving will make it a public server that only you play on. I doubt the dev team would want to continue developing for people like you though.

TL;DR
TR drives away casual players and will lead to population decline as people level and find no desire to raid.

I have no idea who you are but I'm 100% certain I play this game less than you do. Get your nostalgia in, that's great I'm happy for you. If my guild's pursuit of boss kills ruins your fun I'm sorry but I honestly believe you're in the minority. Out of the 1500-2000 active players on this server only a handful are represented by TR and about an equal number are represented on the forums. Most of the shit up here is just people spewing venom to kill time at work.

There are so many other ways and reasons to enjoy EQ that if not getting easy or uncontested boss kills is what ruins this for you I'd move on to another game where your 3 raid hours per week is better spent on guaranteed fights.