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According to a one sense of 'classic in spirit', that's all very true.
But surely we all know that what we're really looking for is a game that feels in most of the important ways like the game we remember & love, but also a decent, playable game. The latter only being no longer a sub-set of the former due to all of the things Tecmos & others have mentioned... so there needs to be some amendments here-and-there. And yeh, I've said subjective things like 'the important things we remember & love' or 'decent, playable game'... I guess as I read these threads, there's a massive polarising of opinion when it seems entirely achievable to mostly satisfy most people in both camps... let's hope the devs shoot for that. | ||
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That's the sort of win-win compromise I have in mind. I dare say there are others like it. I think I'd then be pretty happy with any situation that has no win-win possibility defaulting to some strict sense of 'classic', as a final arbiter, even when the outcome isn't according to my preference. | |||
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Some classes are better at this than others (necro and Druid for example) but they are supposed to be good soloers. And that's the way the game is and has always been. And personally, the class diversity, the fact that some are great at this and suck at that, is one of the things I love most about this game. To many games make all classes viable in all situations,and that's just not my idea of fun in an mmo. | |||
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Good points. You've convinced me to not mind if they don't change it.
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Project 1999 does a good job of emulating the Classic-to-Pre-Luclin Era.
The server admins added custom rules/policies that were not present on Live, but are meant to help make the nostalgia trip better for everyone. Perhaps one of the most controversial is the inability to multi-box, which was one way to "solo" in the pre-Mercenary days of EQ Live. The server is also affected by the player base, who can leverage far more knowledge than players had in 1999-2001, and use modern gaming strategies to have an advantage. Modern gaming hardware also provides an advantage. That said, Project 1999 is free and no warranty is offered or implied. It is a fan server with its own rules. There are other fan servers that do Luclin and PoP, etc, and allow multi-boxing, and if those things are important to you, then log in on one of those other fan servers or roll your own server. | ||
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