The installation process is awful and turning players away

[Jimjam]

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

If you don't have the patience to watch a 30 second video tutorial, how in the world are you going to have the patience to camp a critter for six hours till it drops the thing you need to make the thing for the fifth part of the quest that you have been working on for the past three weeks?

I am not sure EQ is the game for you.

I’ve spent about 65 hours accumulated camping rotten skeleton on my active green toon for like 1/10th of the pieces I need to complete a quest for a key.

This is a game measured in months or years.

[Mblake1981]

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

I started playing 2 days ago and I must tell you after spending 2 hours of my life making it work I am not surprised this server is not growing.

I documented my installation nightmare in this video for reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx45I0DLvwg

How come nobody has streamlined the process yet? Not only there is no centralized way to know how to set up the whole thing (Neither this website or EqEmu's has all the info you need to do so) but most if not all my hassle could have been automated by a single installer.

I don't want to watch a 30 minute video to install the game, and neither does any potential new player.

Even if you make a condensed readable and to the point guide that "just works" the guide provided in this website is very awkwardly formatted and frankly tedious to navigate.

I may not be a member of this community but I beg you to listen to me; if you do not improve your How-to section and provide a proper Setup download this game will never grow.

Please don't look at this through the eyes of you who has been playing this game for 20 years, just imagine for a moment how awful this is for someone that never installed this game before and how avoidable this is.

Thank you for reading my very long rant

[Smoofers]

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

For all the jokes though, op probably ain't wrong.

I, too, struggle with intellectual disability

[Chortles Snortles]

me bad at installer + copy paste
(lol)

[Tearrah]

The last game i Played before P99 was Atari 2600 E.T. That was harder to install then P99

[Tunabros]

if literal granpas can install this game and play it

i don't see how someone who's around my age (24) isn't able to do it

OP is just a fucking retard and doesn't know how to use google

[Gustoo]

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

The guy who tells you about p1999 shares his install on dropbox then you just copy paste it to your hard drive and make a shortcut named ‘nostalgic pixels’ to launch. Pretty easy!

Ding ding ding we have an IQ of 160 here

[Gustoo]

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

if literal granpas can install this game and play it

i don't see how someone who's around my age (24) isn't able to do it

OP is just a fucking retard and doesn't know how to use google

Feels good to agree on something.

[Gustoo]

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

I started playing 2 days ago and I must tell you after spending 2 hours of my life making it work I am not surprised this server is not growing.

I documented my installation nightmare in this video for reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx45I0DLvwg

How come nobody has streamlined the process yet? Not only there is no centralized way to know how to set up the whole thing (Neither this website or EqEmu's has all the info you need to do so) but most if not all my hassle could have been automated by a single installer.

I don't want to watch a 30 minute video to install the game, and neither does any potential new player.

Even if you make a condensed readable and to the point guide that "just works" the guide provided in this website is very awkwardly formatted and frankly tedious to navigate.

I may not be a member of this community but I beg you to listen to me; if you do not improve your How-to section and provide a proper Setup download this game will never grow.

Please don't look at this through the eyes of you who has been playing this game for 20 years, just imagine for a moment how awful this is for someone that never installed this game before and how avoidable this is.

Thank you for reading my very long rant

Quoting this for posterity

Sorry it’s hard. Any forum member would hold your hand to help you out.

[Gustoo]

That wasn’t facetious either. Anyone would help you get it setup and answer questions you have about the setup guide.