Lost the spark?

[Wwen42]

I always had a hard time staying game-monogamous. I stopped WoWing all the time to catch up on other stuff. I also play Elite Dangerous sometimes. There's a lot of games in the vault that basically don't have an end so I just rotate stuff.

[Rang]

I’m completely re addicted and am contemplating quitting my job to be a full time green 99er

[mattydef]

I feel ya, i'm pretty much in the same boat. I'd love to play green but I just can't bring myself to actually do it. I've played so much on blue over the last 3-4 years and accomplished so much on p99 already that I no longer have that drive I once had. At this point I plan on just logging on every once in a while for short windows and my time will probably be best spent on blue, at least for a while (things can change).

[bigjeff100]

I didn't think i would actually end up on green myself.. I was afraid if i started a character on green, it would drive me to spend all my time and more over there.. And i hardly have anytime to play at all!

But after getting a little cleric to 5 on green, I don't really feel that pull like i thought! I keep a close eye on blue but since i dont raid, i check friend list, i check lfg's, and if nothin crackin, im back to green! It's actually refreshing not being judged or inspected... People just assume ur gear sucks like theirs haha! Just play green with the right state of mind.. Don't go in there wanting to get on a list for legacy items, or anything like that.. Just play to play! Keep your focus and pixels on blue.

[Gustoo]

If it aint fun it aint fun.

Sometimes fun games arent fun and you want to do monotonous work like EQ.

EQ has always had a huge amount of different players and you will always need to talk to your group mates and get them alligned with you. They didn't all come from your raiding guild. Some of them maybe were EC rats, some of them were a solo class..who knows.

When you make a group you always gotta talk a lot. Its chatquest.

[acoordinator]

You know times are desperate when were right back to the forums...

Well I don't post much or ever so I don't expect any klout on my opinion. I was addicted af to EQ, WOW, EVE online and roughly any other major mmo thats come out in the past 20 years. I should have failed school cause of EQ which should have taught me somthing.. it did not... fast forward, were all here. (watch everyone scrutinize my education now)

Now im 35, my second son was just born 4 months ago, I have a good full time job with a wife and two kids, i'm not 16 with endless supply of doritos, coca cola, and free time. Is it that bad to presume others are in somewhat the same boat? Is this just not a game for people like me anymore? How did I do it on Blue? (questionable answer) This is my problem now, and its because of the choices i've made, not the mechanics on green.

But I just dont feel that spark. And I agree with the comments from Deathryda, Roth and Pharmakos, there's something core to this server that feels wrong. Maybe it was seeing people go spawn crazy for decaying skeletons, or sitting for 3 hours in groups like people say not really gaining any xp cause nobody really knows what their doing...(I guess we forgot?). Something is different now that what it was 20 years ago. No its not the UI, its not the lists. I cant put my finger on it though I will admit the moment I saw that broadcast from Rogean asking if we wanted two green servers my answer was an overwhelming YES in my head. I remember my classic experience being grinding, long, but Fun. There wasn't an overwhelming amount of people who either knew EVERYTHING about the game, or almost nothing. Ive asked in groups a few times what everyone thinks will happen when we all try to go to MM, HH, or wherever 20-30, I usually get told don't bother it will be packed... Spread out, go find areas that arn't packed... and that's great, if you have the time, and know those places, are connected like 1/3 the population in some secret p1999 underground, or u just lucked out and got in., but I wont be, I don't have any chance at that, and that and many other places I will probably miss out on is why this classic experience is different for me. I spent weeks scrutinizing what class I should play... I want to group, but with my schedule I never got many groups in blue so I doubt Id be getting them on green.

Like others have talked about for months people have been practicing making classic chars, they've been planning, schemeing, I did too... but for the reasons above, I just cant devote the same time as the guy who quit his job divorced his wife waved bye to his kids and sits on a bucket with pizza pops beside him.... I cant compete with that and Im happy for that.

So I cutting this crap short cause its more than yall want to read anyway. I hope in a few months things have settled. Dont judge me, I love p1999, Green and Blue. I loved my last three years on blue with Kittens I could not have asked for a better Everquest experience. I am donating $15 a month for P1999 and will for years to come just as if I was paying for a subscription like WOW because I feel it is an amazing thing, I still dream of having my kids come camp Udogs in Velks with me someday tho they will probably think its really lame.

So in ending, Thank you to the people who dare not love this experience, we need to be free thinkers. Thank you most of all to the devs. You have created something amazing. I hope someday my own life circumstances will allow me to enjoy this world you've created. Were not going anywhere o7

[Jibartik]

Logged in, gamed for 1hr 10 min, got a stupid low level, logged off.

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I had the spark day 1-3 and thought "yeesh my body is shutting down I'm too old for this I am going to die at my desk how embarrassing my friends are going to be so slightly humerusly disappointed"

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[Keza]

If you play EQ in any format so much that you don't even play other games then... yeah... no shit it's not fun anymore. Only a lunatic could do the same thing forever without getting bored. It was also made 2 decades ago, so it's obviously not the peak of entertainment in terms of modern mechanics/design. You've clearly squeezed all the fun you can get out of it so I wouldn't even suggest wasting your time with it. I myself am taking it very slow for that exact reason. I've wanted it for years and now I'm going entire days without logging in instead of spending every free moment online.

I can shave some time off your depressing bucket list of spending two whole weeks playing FF games though. FF13-2, FF13-3 and FF15 are a total waste of time and money. They are so awful it shouldn't have been legal to sell them, especially 13-3 and 15. So I wouldn't worry about completing them. Ironically, FFXI is a superior MMORPG compared to EQ in pretty much every way, even it's slightly better but still ridiculously bad UI. EQ has it's own charm with it's style and design of course, but if your life goal is to beat all FF games then you should check out the FFXI emu which is basically the same thing as P99.

[Muggens]

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

If you play EQ in any format so much that you don't even play other games then... yeah... no shit it's not fun anymore. Only a lunatic could do the same thing forever without getting bored. It was also made 2 decades ago, so it's obviously not the peak of entertainment in terms of modern mechanics/design. You've clearly squeezed all the fun you can get out of it so I wouldn't even suggest wasting your time with it. I myself am taking it very slow for that exact reason. I've wanted it for years and now I'm going entire days without logging in instead of spending every free moment online.

I can shave some time off your depressing bucket list of spending two whole weeks playing FF games though. FF13-2, FF13-3 and FF15 are a total waste of time and money. They are so awful it shouldn't have been legal to sell them, especially 13-3 and 15. So I wouldn't worry about completing them. Ironically, FFXI is a superior MMORPG compared to EQ in pretty much every way, even it's slightly better but still ridiculously bad UI. EQ has it's own charm with it's style and design of course, but if your life goal is to beat all FF games then you should check out the FFXI emu which is basically the same thing as P99.

I'll save u some more time. FF 1,2,3,8,10,12,13 etc are crap.
4, 6 and 7 are gold, 9 is ok

[Spacebar]

It seems a lot of people arguing against splitting the server in two for some period of time keep pointing to the population stagnating or somewhat dropping off after the weekend.

Honestly, I think this has more to do with the fact that people will try to LFG for 2+ hours and maybe be able to solo 1 blue con every 15 minutes while they wait. For most people it isn't realistic to even try to play in this state.

I know seeing 2k + online means there's not reason for me to even log on and I'm sure others feel the same way. I bet 2 servers would easily maintain 1.5k prime time for a long time. If a merge ever happened the excess server could be used for the potential brown/pink/purple or whatever new red server is being considered.

Classic + Kunark might have enough low-mid range content to support a population like this, but Classic by itself does not.