This in the announcement with 24 pages of ranting by diehard forum trolls. All I want to find out is if they removed the pop-locked or not, simple question, simple answer please.
[UPDATE] Hello Everyone, After discussing with the team, we wanted to announce a change to the upcoming Progression Servers and also make something a little clearer. Due to the feedback we've received, we're going to be removing the PoP locking from both servers, allowing them to unlock expansions at the established rate (the same cadence as Mangler). The second point is, the dedicated GM status of these two servers is an experiment. We hope that it will prove to be viable, but it does have a time limit associated with it. We are targeting at least 6 months, post server launch, after which we will review the results and move forward from there. [UPDATE] Very first part of the post before the 24 pages.
they even updated the page... did you care to read it? read the first paragraph here: https://www.everquest.com/news/eq-rizlona-aradune-progression-server-launch-2020