"servers begin with access to the original zones that were available at launch and will gradually add expansions every 3 months until Planes of Power/Lost Dungeons of Norrath at which point it will be locked." /rant
Well there's one spark of light in all this... Mangler and Selos won't be stripped of their player base
Mangler is the real winner here. These new servers are absolutely prime for krono farming so all the usual scumlords will be jumping ship.
This^ I doubt a locked prison server with GM enforcers will appeal to many... it's actually great news for those who invested on Mangles/Selos.
The only way this could have been worse is if they also disabled AoC... They should honestly be studied to understand how a group of people could get everything so wrong.
Well, points to them for asking for feedback/suggestions prior to deciding something on their end. Minus points and faction for asking the wrong audience. Negative double points and faction for going their own route and largely ignoring all of the requests from everyone (whether their chosen clique for this go-round, the "community representatives" they use occasionally, or any other sub-set of people that they decide upon at their whimsy).
It's full on go mode for both servers, GM support and no automation.... haha from a company that can't spot a 60 man automated team on a server and is keen on not deleting those accounts due to revenue loss. Mangler is still a winner, but the bots now have permission to ramp up the hacks as they see there is zero recourse moving forward for them.
This is mostly how I feel, they know the servers drop off. Personally I would go a step further...just make them event servers that last 1-1.5 years and then wipe. Have leaderboards and other stuff for guilds to race and whatnot. But there is no reason in 2 years to have 3 PoP locked servers with different rulesets.
Is it just me waiting for the announcement excited and now feel like I can wait for another year to come back?
I'm excited! I've played on every TLP and they all ran out of gas post PoP-Omens. Give me a new server every year and I'm fine.