So what happened in luclin-pop?

[jolanar]

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

tl;dr Luclin made Everquest easy, EQ is not suppose to be easy

Mudflation is inevitable. Kunark made Classic easy but that doesn't mean Kunark was a bad expansion.

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

This is what happened

http://eq.magelo.com/profile/482891

[Daldaen]

http://eq.magelo.com/profile/1185596

This happened too. It was glorious. I wasn't a fan of the itemization post TBS, but they had some cool things like the shawl, and mana proc augments.

[jwilda]

What happened was that travel got more convenient, so more zones became accessible. This opened up the world to more players.

The game got better.

People are blinded by that, however, because nostalgia.

[Arclyte]

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

What happened was that travel got more convenient, so more zones became accessible. This opened up the world to more players.

The game got better.

People are blinded by that, however, because nostalgia.

except the old world zones were dead because of shit like paludal caverns and superior luclin loot

[jwilda]

That's what happens when people have access to new things. If you had a brand new Corvette in the driveway, would you continue to drive the old Pinto that's sitting in the garage?

[Ket]

How can someone say people are wrong, when you just have to look at the numbers between this classic server, and any other server going past velious?

Numbers, people. Luclin/PoP inferior.

-Ket

[Tuurin]

For all of those purists out there that think the easy-travel POK books ruined your immersion in the game, let me ask you this:

If the GMs announced that for one weekend, anyone could bind in the TD firepots room- how many of you would be falling all over yourself trying to get bound there?

The reality is that after 5+ years on a game, it's not all that amazing of an experience to run from Freeport to Qeynos, or ride the jacked-up boats from Oasis to OT, or whatever since it's something that you've done before many times.

And it's not that amazing of an experience to group up with other newbs in CB or BB, since it's something that you've been able to do several times already with a couple different alts. So by the time POK book travel enters the game, it's not ruining immersion for most people, since you've already earned your bones killing krag chicks in butcherblock and would like to do something new.

I don't think anyone is arguing that those things should be in day 1 of a server (or even 6 months in, or whatever). But after years of classic content, people either stagnate on doing the same things over and go to another game or obsess over dominating the already-trivialized raid content that has been consumed and regurgitated countless times already.

[Arclyte]

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

That's what happens when people have access to new things. If you had a brand new Corvette in the driveway, would you continue to drive the old Pinto that's sitting in the garage?

It makes the decision easier when the new stuff is also superior in every way.

Also, cats on the moon with space aliens and shitty models.

We went from this:
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to this:
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[Dacien]

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

Mudflation is inevitable. Kunark made Classic easy but that doesn't mean Kunark was a bad expansion.

I feel like a new player would experience the same difficulty leveling up in Classic or Kunark. I feel like that same player would have a noticeably easier time in Luclin or PoP.

Kunark made Classic easier only if you had end game chars or connections on the server.