Why all the SOE run servers if Project 1999 is free to play?

[Grimfan]

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

What really grinds my gears is the EQ Next "Roundtable Discussions", the people on there (particularly Omeed Dariani or whatever his name is) is sitting pretty on the EQ bandwagon doing very little.

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I hope EQ Next succeeds as it has potential but yeah....Landmark [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Just so you know it actually takes a lot of work to make video content and to stream on Twitch. He also goes to players streams and gives stuff away and talks to them (people who stream landmark) and he is their social network guy and runs their twitter and replies to important threads on Reddit and such. That's what he is paid to do, and he does a pretty good job at it IMO.

In fact, it's such a hard job that they have two people doing it, Dexella is the other.

[Gaffin 7.0]

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

Stromm? I was on stromm. Monk character in Realm of Insanity... Those were the best days i had in EQ.

Realm of Insanity here too, met a few now on p99. They all say the same thing. Was a blast

[Dragonsblood1987]

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

I actually enjoyed eqlive raiding from Planes of Power all the way through Secrets of Faydwer or maybe shortly after. From what I hear now of how the raids are, shit is a joke. The raid scene was one of the one of the true player niches left and they're destroying it.

Does this mean you might go beyond velious at some point? Not gonna lie, some AAs would be most bitchin.

[rekreant]

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

This.

Luclin and PoP AAs.

They were the best imo. They added much needed improvements for certain classes, fun toys and utility for others, without making the game feel bloated or ridiculous.

I stated it often and i'll do it once more: PoP was the pinnacle of Everquest.

this

[Magifyre]

I would trade my left nut to play on a PoP era server again.

[Clark]

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

0/10 Elidroth Impersonation.

Lol

[Azure]

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

I'm curious why this is? I could understand it if people don't want the full-on EQLive experience, but SOE's servers I see, all of them really give that. They seem more likely to give the "EQ + 23 expansions, but change this cause that's great, and oh, I loved that idea, so change that, etc. etc. etc."

So without this turning into a trollfest, I'm curious what people think the reasoning is? And why do we need SO MANY SOE-run servers?

Oh, and I get the "loyalty", new-school vibe. I do. I wish we could snap our fingers and make it go away.

And just in case people don't know who I am, I'm Secrets of EQEmulator. And I'm 100% seriously asking this question.

TLDR, humans are highly programmable despite what they think of themselves and hence, once you create something and they do the same thing for many days over and over, they continue doing what they have been programmed to do.

Pick either SoE or their customers. But I suspect both suffer this.

[Erydan Ouragan]

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

I would trade my left nut to play on a PoP era server again.

Me too, i think i would become a hermit and never go out of my apartment ever again.

In another thread, some people voiced concerns about AAs creating a larger gap between a fresh 60 and a 60 with AAs, making it difficult to catch up or creating another tool for people to discriminate, i.e. U dont haev at least 800 AA u suk lol.

Which is true, i won't deny it, but after a few months on p99, i made an observation: this server is pretty hardcore.

Project 1999 is not for casual gamers at all. No PoK books, no LFG tool. Either you get lucky and get a group when you log on, or try to build one and that takes time. Sometimes you've been online for an hour setting things up, sending tells, and you still haven't made one kill.

Look at the state of the server right now. Every target that's even remotely worth something is camped or batphoned the moment it's up. That's what happens when the sandbox is small and there's too many kids in it.

Velious will alleviate some of the problems we have right now, more zones mean more places to level, especially at 50+. But were still far from Velious.

And even then, what will happen after Velious is out for a couple of years? Same thing that's happening right now. This is the nature of MMOs, they can't stagnate, they have to progress.

But there's a point where the progression is just too much. When you don't feel like starting an alt because you look at everything you'll need to do before getting to the point you want to be, and it feels like climbing mount Everest.

This is why, i think, PoP without LDoN and Ykesha would be perfect for p1999. It would add plenty of content without making it seem too far and it would bring balance through AAs for classes that need it, plus improvements for the rest.

Of course, with the staff being volunteers who clearly put quality in front of mass-pumping out the next expansion coupled with the fact that going up to PoP would take a massive amount of work, we wouldn't get there anytime soon but nonetheless, i think that's the direction P1999 should be headed to.

[Herpa Derp]

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

This.

Luclin and PoP AAs.

They were the best imo. They added much needed improvements for certain classes, fun toys and utility for others, without making the game feel bloated or ridiculous.

I stated it often and i'll do it once more: PoP was the pinnacle of Everquest.

This so goddamn much.

Do you ever not say something that I absolutely agree with? I think we were actually talking about this once upon a time. POP was so much fun. I was actually starting to space out towards the end of Luclin and POP just breathed a breath of fresh air into my MMO'ing self. The best time of my life period was playing during POP and working with an amazing guild getting my BoT key and grinding for hours in there. The day I got my Greatstaff of Thunder on my monk I was just screaming like a banshee in joy. I know people say that sony "jumped the shark" with luclin but I think that's BS. It's just people that are butthurt because the models changed and that was too much of an aversion from "classic" for them.

Pras Luclin. Pras AA's. Pras PoP. If you don't like PoK then just walk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tywi0IPLYwY



It's Necrophobia btw bruh.

[Erasong]

I played on Fippy Darkpaw till the end of PoP. shit was cash. PoP best expansion. p05. Make it happen. Had a bunch of you ex RoI guys in TL with us btw.