Why don't more people play here?

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These records show more than 225,000 subscriptions on 1 November 1999, with an increase to more than 450,000 subscriptions by 25 September 2003.

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.