Way to go people ruined everquest and now allakhazamFollow

Way to go people ruined everquest and now allakhazam, now go out do the samething to EQ 2, WOW, EQ next or any other multiplayer game online. Selfish pricks....

I infer he's talking about the decline in customer service since Daybreak took over EQ and since ZAM decided to move to the West Coast. Just guessing, now!

Shadowrelm, dat you?

It seems there has been an exodus lately. On some of the servers I frequent, the bazaar is almost vacant...

Part of this is due to the two new progression servers. A lot of regulars have for the time being switched to playing there and that cut backs population on the existing servers. Progression server popularity wanes gradually, and accelerating, as time passes.

One big mistake they did make with TDS is to make most of the new zones locked. This blocks casual players from accessing interesting new content. Even though I did the work to progress for all my toons I'd vote for unlocking them all now, as this would encourage casuals to play more, and maybe even buy TDS belatedly. They usually unlock old content anyway but typically they wait for the next xpac to be released. I'd recommend unlocking NOW.

Edited, Jun 20th 2015 1:03pm by Sippin

The consensus being the drop in population on regular servers is due to migration to the new prog. servers?

That makes sense.

Yeah, that makes total sense. I also agree that once the "new and shiny" wears off, most of those folks will go back to playing their regular characters on their regular servers most of the time.

Even though I'm a "classicist" (LOVE the original game) I haven't stepped onto either new progression server. Several reasons. One, I'm committed to completing some long quest arcs in TDS and still working on those. Two, I just don't have the time to burn to add yet more gameplay to my leisure time schedule. Three, I know it won't come close to being the "real" classic experience, particularly compared to P1999, where I already leveled 2 toons to 50. Four, I'm a tad concerned about the horror stories I've heard about armies of boxed mages dominating entire zones. Five, The same pattern that eventually pushed me off P1999: I work hard to level up but find as I get close to 50 that there's nothing much left to experience or acquire, and the only way to continue to advance is to commit a crazy amount of time to endless repetitive raids of Plane of Fear, Plane of Hate and named dragon hunts. Been there, done that. Plane of Fear is exciting the first time a level-suitable guild breaks in. Maybe even the second and third time. But by the fourth time, it's just a tedious grind clearing high-HP trash mobs for hours.

You can go back and visit classic EQ but you can't ever "really go back" to experience that sense of wonder arising from your first time playing EQ back in the day. We all just know too much now!