Progression Server Classic to OoW

[Xarekis]

It's simple, really. The idea of a progression server is flawed at its core.

People who want to play classic, will play on classic servers. People who want more old-modern, will play on those servers. And people who want the latest, most modern version of EQ play on Live.

A progression server will eventually only cater to one of these segments of the pop, so nobody is truly interested in throwing the massive amount of labor and hours into creating such an emu server. There are other servers that specialize in each type and which will out-compete it.

[gyiro]

Originally Posted by Xarekis

It's simple, really. The idea of a progression server is flawed at its core.

People who want to play classic, will play on classic servers. People who want more old-modern, will play on those servers. And people who want the latest, most modern version of EQ play on Live.

A progression server will eventually only cater to one of these segments of the pop, so nobody is truly interested in throwing the massive amount of labor and hours into creating such an emu server. There are other servers that specialize in each type and which will out-compete it.

Classic say 2 years
Kunark say 2 years
Velious say 2 years
SoL say 2 years
PoP say 2 years

That right there is 10 years of play.

OR

Classic say 1 years
Kunark say 1 years
Velious say 1 years
SoL say 1 years
PoP say 1 years

That would be 5 years

A game that is slowly growing, expanding while not capping out.

You even have another 4 expansions to get to OoW. Then there are another 5 expansions after that.

Legacy 1 or 2 years
LDoN 1 or 2 years
Gates 1 or 2 years
Omens 1 or 2 years

Another 4 to 8 years of play. So at this point we could have 9 to 18 years of game play. Again not growing stagnant, still growing, not capping out.

DoN
Depths
PoR
TSS
TBS

If you play on a server that set on Velious or PoP then what? Its going to become stagnant. You log on the server most people are going to max level and raid end game. You play for say 2 or so years and cap your character out then what? Game over or reroll.

I know so people like games that dont last for ever. But that is a console not an MMO

After

[Xarekis]

Project 1999 has been around since October 2009. Six years. On Classic and Kunark. It will soon be in Velious, but all three of those expansions belong to a single era- what most people view as the classic era. The population is HUGE and seems to be getting higher. Not many people in this community want change, I'm afraid, even if doled out in 2-year increments.

[gyiro]

Originally Posted by Xarekis

Project 1999 has been around since October 2009. Six years. On Classic and Kunark. It will soon be in Velious, but all three of those expansions belong to a single era- what most people view as the classic era. The population is HUGE and seems to be getting higher. Not many people in this community want change, I'm afraid, even if doled out in 2-year increments.

I play on there and friends of mine do as well and guess what we are not playing on there now. Why? we are waiting on Velious and we do not like to play alts.

I have talked with people who are playing on other EQEMU servers and WoW servers who play on p99 and they are also not playing and waiting on Velious. Shoot Velious was to be out last fall so a lot of people started coming back who left. So two years after Velious is out the server will die down.

Oh and guess what EQ live is doing just what I said making a brand new progression server starting with classic. Why? because that is what players are wanting. But you will need to pay to play that server.

Lets see how many P99 plays leave to play on that new EQ live progression server.