Everquest Fan Server Is Going To Party Like It's 1999 - MMORPG.com

System · September 2019

Everquest Fan Server Is Going To Party Like It's 1999 - MMORPG.com

In a forum post, via RPS, it looks like one fan server is going to host a PvE version of Everquest as it was in 1999.

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Tiller · September 2019

You know things have gone to shit when we are reduced to playing emulator servers for actual MMORPG fun.

Utinni · September 2019

Tiller said:

You know things have gone to shit when we are reduced to playing emulator servers for actual MMORPG fun.

P99 launched in 2009.

This is just the same team re-launching a server in progression format.

Palebane · September 2019

They going to have the same old graphics and UI as at launch? “Dopeman please can I have another hit?”

Wizardry · September 2019

Tiller said:

You know things have gone to shit when we are reduced to playing emulator servers for actual MMORPG fun.

Not really,devs and publishers are so greedy they change the face of their games in many ways,whatever makes the most money.
So just like the hand was forced by Blizzard,many preferred the vanilla experience in their games over what the games have become over time.

Now on the flipside,non official servers will always be missing parts of the game,weather that is a good thing or not is as i described,it can be but of course not always.

EverSkelly · September 2019

People want to feel it all again. To go back in time.
But it's lying to yourself. You will not feel the same way you did back in the day.. when you discovered new worlds, new zones, new creatures, new spells.. so many possibilities. No. You cannot relive the same, you cannot feel the same

You long for that feeling, it lives as beautiful memories.. but it's gone.

Tiller · September 2019

EverSkelly said:

People want to feel it all again. To go back in time.
But it's lying to yourself. You will not feel the same way you did back in the day.. when you discovered new worlds, new zones, new creatures, new spells.. so many possibilities. No. You cannot relive the same, you cannot feel the same
You long for that feeling, it lives as beautiful memories.. but it's gone.

This is true to an extent, even playing SWG emu is not what live was back in 2003-2004. The community is gone and the people playing are like the silent movie types. Someone should invent a time machine and erase all out memories I guess. The one thing you do have are the mechanics though, so if you find them favorable then you got it made.

Lokero · September 2019

Wizardry said:
Now on the flipside,non official servers will always be missing parts of the game,weather that is a good thing or not is as i described,it can be but of course not always.

That's the main problem with emulator servers. You get back all the worst parts of those games, also.

All the good quality-of-life changes that were made to the live-service are flushed away and the clunky, awkward stuff is revived.

Everquest had some seriously clunky mechanics and visuals. The UI, the 40%(?) experience penalties that hybrid classes brought to their groups, and so on.

It's like taking a Monet and reducing it to a black-and-white.

On a more positive note, there seems to be a ton of interest in this P99-G server. Their announcement thread had like 15k-20k views in the first day. Clearly there are still a lot of interested parties.

That server is going to lag hard

kitarad · September 2019

Argh I cannot decide which to play now. Was going to sub to WoW classic but this is pure love for me. I love this version best of all the MMORPGs.

Finvega · September 2019

Playing P99 (and WoW Classic for that matter) is much like re-reading your favorite books. I have re-read the Malazan series many times, each time getting value for time spent.