Here is my take: not that we really need to see another.
I play on WR and it is enjoyable, great work Wiz. It is well thought out and put together. I feel comfortable saying it is better than the eq i left at the release of Luclin. <meaning no disrespect: that aint hard>
I think in order to undersand why i would like to see a EQEmu server limited to Original, Kunark and Velious, you would need to know why i left.
I did not leave EQ because i got bored, or because i didnt find end game content. I left because ever time i turned around a new release made everything i had wokred long and hard to acquire... dogshit. And even though i was in one of the oldest guilds on Mith Marr, we were a tight group of friends that didnt want to accept assholes into the guild. Needless to say as the devs wrote more and more to the HUGE groups needed to kill things and the uber items, we lost the ability to compete with open admission 'own the spawn' guilds.
I loved the game, i never lost interest in the 'classic' areas, i am not a power gamer. I was one of the few wizards who went on Hate raids and i love the place <nothign much for me but still fun>
I am looking for a classic server so i can go have the fun i once did, so i can get the items i once had and not have to worry that any amount of work i do will mean a waste of time NEXT expansion.
To be able to get to a mob, no matter how insignificant or important and not sit on a list for days, or have to catch UBER GUILD002 sleeping so i can get a spawn.
I realize that there wouldnt be a huge amount of ppl out there that would play on an EQclassic server. I have hated the mention of SOE or EQ for years. I can name 4 others who were equally pissed off and quit the same time i did for similar reasons. I mentioned EQEmu and got yelled at, but when i explained that sony wouldnt be at the helm and we could make the content static they listened. We want to play the game to its fullest extent before the game went to the dogs, and the spawns got impossible, before the items got rediculous. I think the people who played through all the ludicrous shit would be totally disillusioned and unable to play a classic server.
I understand both sides of this issue, and i hope perhaps i have explained myself well enough to make some sense.
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