It costs money to run servers and update content. The servers here don't have 2000 people per server, and they also don't have hundreds of hired people to be GMs to stop people from greifing everyone etc. If they did i'm sure there wouldn't be more than one or two public servers, and you can pretty much bet that sony would start some sort of lawsuit *shrug* but thats not the point of me starting this topic.
All I ask for is one stable working server where people can play around and have fun on without having the giant time sinks of 'legit' type servers and that you can be anything you want to be. Sure, some people won't stick around, I know I wouldn't play there all day long every day, but whenever I got sick of eqlive servers i'd stop by and play my chars on it and have fun going to zones I could never go to on my eqlive chars. I'm addicted to everquest, but it isn't as fun as it started out to be, lower levels you can do anything and not worry about it, in the 50s its almost impossible to do such a thing as screwing around would get you killed, and if you don't shell out $$$ for a rez you lose an hour or two of time you spent xp grinding.
If I wanted to play a 'legit' server i'd play eq, and I do, 13$ a month is very cheap for a game that I get more time out of than all the other computer games i've ever had combined (which is ALOT of games... can't really give an accurate number, but i'd say over 50). Almost every zone in EQEMu has a place where you will crash and have to restart eq and load again so you can log onto another character and #movechar him to another zone thats stable so you can search for another zone to xp in... but that will all eventually be fixed so my opinion on EQEMu as being a substitute for an eqlive server may change.
Don't get me wrong, the developers of EQEMu are doing a very good job with the emulator and foreverhacking server IMO, they aren't gods, and they don't have the hundreds of hired people to help them like sony does, but they do a damn good job with what they've got to work with, I hope they keep up the good work for the sake of the EQEMu community, and we should support them as much as we can. I just wish we could have a *good* public server with the small community atmosphere that has no limitations on it.
-Brandon
53 Necro
53 Monk
52 Wizard
46 Paladin
All on Quellious server
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