Challenge and the Reward

[devn00b]

Originally Posted by Angelox

Have you ever wondered why SOE Everquest has lasted so many years?
Here's some reasons why I think it has:
- Great challenge with excellent reward (at all levels).
- No cheating permited: this is true depending on how you would classify "cheating" in EQ.

Makes me wonder why EQEMU, a free form of Everquest, would have such a hard time getting off the ground. One would think that players would "flock" to come here.

You really missed EQemu's hayday, Guildwars used to have close to 200 players online at any given time. Id say thats well off the ground, but since the current "team" (if you could call it that) alienated other developers away the project has grown rather stagnant and well the result is what you see today. Also EQ1's popularity has dwindled and so therefore has eqemu's.

My opinion? Too many "cheat" servers where anything goes. It's in the human nature: "given the opportunity to cheat, I will cheat", only to quickly become bored and tired, finally quit the scene.
I really think we have only attracted the few who could "cheat forever" , and the rest came and left.

Doesn't help that EQEMu has a patch freeze so most come here, cant find/don't want to buy the client that is supported by the servers.