Hail, and do a lot of young people play EQ now?

[thoradinDaDorf]

Ho! I'm just a good old dorf returning to EQ from my hole in the ground I've been digging in. Hail and all that. remember 2003? Man it was a wonderful year in retrospect, at least as far as the life went. Emojis were cooler too ^_^. By Brell's stein I'm hoping my brethren with a taste for it all found goodly gold in their journeys neath the earth since then. At least enough to buy them some time back in Norrath!

Anyhoo I have a funny question at the back of my mind...are the denizens of p99 Norrath (and maybe other servers) mostly aging OG vets, or has new blood trickled in over the years? Retro gaming is an awfully big thing now and if what i've seen is any guide, it's full of whippersnappers. Do we have any idea what the median age is? 30, or way older? I'm just sizing up the vibe lol.

signed, "the nooby boomer". *resumes chipping rocks*

[spoil]

Hail! I don't think we have too many miners playing the game. Or young people for that matter.

I would guess the median age is way older than 30, it's mostly EQ vets from the classic era. And to the extent EQ is on the retro gaming radar, the population is split between live EQ, TLP servers, THJ/EQL, PQ, p99 Blue and p99 Green, etc. So we do get new players on p99, but it's just a trickle. And with the other options we only get the masochists who really want to play the classic game. But I'm not complaining, I like the vibe here in general. It's like that Doug Stanhope joke about someone complaining "That shitty town is like 20 years behind the times." "Book me there, I had fun 20 years ago..."

[Swish]

I'd imagine based on people I know the median age has to be in the 40s at this point. Dad camps and soloing are part of the leveling experience for a lot of people who have offscreen commitments.

If you're looking to group and relive the old days then the green server has the most population. If you want a challenge then consider the red server (the VIP server).