Why don't more people play here?

[DevGrousis]

The biggest reason why this server doesn't have more people is because it is free to play. which means there is no budget to allow for marketing. So in other words, people dont know this exists.

The servers on live had about 2-3k at peak times, so technically, in our own little server, it is a full everquest population. I doubt that the staff here could afford to have alot of servers with 2k people on them each. That would become very expensive.

[Itap]

If it's people not knowing about P99, in what way can we advertise it?

[Jayneweigh]

I didn't know about the server until a few months ago, then the whole installing can scare a lot of non technical people away. I found out about it because I was reminiscing about the old days with a friend and decided to check out Youtube to see what kind of vids were out there and I found some about P99. The rest is history, I'm back in EQ (here) and having a blast! But I think those are the 2 main reasons, people don't know and people are scare of the technical aspect of installing it. Also I think a lot people do join, check it out, play for a bit then get their fill of it and leave. Not everyone wants the difficulty level this game has.

[Auvdar]

Well everytime I see a Everquest post in my Facebook feed, I usually link the P99 site to people wanting a more "classic exp". Not sure if I'm a bad boy for doing that or not :\

[Ele]

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

If it's people not knowing about P99, in what way can we advertise it?

Want to kill dragons and gods and receive epic loot? Come to P99 where you just have to spend 16 hours at your keyboard tracking every weekend for half a year for your chance at that encounter and special items.*

*plus hundreds of hours building your character to the point you can be allowed to wait at your keyboard.

[Amyas]

This server is amazing

[Speedi]

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

Getting everything installed is a pain, having to jump through all those hoops to get started probably loses us quite a few people.

Add to that there's some people out there who think the only method to get the right version is to pay $100 or whatever on Amazon... not many want to pay it I'm sure.

Honestly if we had a deal with Dey break Games and could put a link up to download from here with an installer that would set everything up with the current patch in one click... we'd probably have 4000-5000 here.

That sums it up pretty much. Some people are lazy and/or not computer savvy. So they have trouble finding the titanium edition. Some are funny about downloading content to their PC from a pirated site. I know I wasn't real comfortable myself. Didn't want to get a virus/spyware.

[Raev]

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

Want to kill dragons and gods and receive epic loot? Come to P99 where you just have to spend 16 hours at your keyboard tracking every weekend for half a year for your chance at that encounter and special items.*

*plus hundreds of hours building your character to the point you can be allowed to wait at your keyboard.

Yep. I bet Rogean could have 5000 peak population on every night if he launched more servers.

[Itap]

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

Yep. I bet Rogean could have 5000 peak population on every night if he launched more servers.

This was one of the reasons I started this thread. I want more pop so the devs will hopefully open up more servers.

Perhaps people roll here, see blues current status, and end up quitting?

[Pipip]

I went back and forth deciding whether to try for a month before I did. It was because of the necessity to get the titanium client. I eventually did it, and I've been here since.

I guarantee you there would be more people playing if you could use old install discs, steam, the latest official client, etc. anything but titanium