Successful Oakwynd Launch

Likely because he lost the race to 50. After falling behind with no hope of catching up, his interest went back to Mischief (where his guild is) I’m guessing.

I’ve had a great time so far. Far less toxicity at least in the early levels, which has been nice. I’m digging the new server so far. Shame people poisoned the server so heavily before and discouraged many not to play it.

Gave it a solid try. FTE works ok, no real complaints. Never really had any of the problems it seeks to solve, though.

Just feels like a normal server tbh.

No joke, still can't use the inventory on two of my boxes.

Pretty much. The pre-launch discourse was so bad it even got out to the Reddit and Facebook. That said low levels have been pretty fun, nice, and healthy so far despite that. Hopefully it maintains course, esp. with the future bonuses. lol.

Success is subjective. If you mean that it was better than usual, then yeah, it was a success. If you compare it to other games, like FFXIV and Elder Scrolls, then the launch was janky. It amazes me that a game with millions of subscribers can have a nearly flawless launch with low queue times, yet this game with a few hundred thousand still has queue times of 90 minutes or more.

My experience with the server so far is either boxers who are anti social, people in premade groups and you aren't invited, or soloers who will flat out ignore your request to group up.

It's incredibly bland and boring, just another classic experience only less people willing to group up with randoms like me.

One game was released in 1999 and the other was released in 2010 and a lot had changed in hardware/programing technology and game development design during those years. A lot of the limitations that Everquest has can be traced back to the code at launch. When you have games like FFXIV that got released over a decade later they had a chance to learn from the problems of earlier games and design around them.

My take is, these new mechanics turn the game world into a giant lobby you can walk around in. Reminds me of swtor. People would be fighting something. Who knew why. the world was a one giant game lobby.

You could use other more tactile metaphors. Jimi Hendrix once said this one chick was like making love in styrofoam. I can dig it. Now.

This is what happens when the vocal minority chicken littles start yelling that the sky is falling everywhere and then the hivemind jumps on the bandwagon. A few people manage to convince the jury of public opinion and convince themselves it's all awful before they've even given it a shot or everything is finalized.

Just like when someone is accused of a crime and the masses come out of the woodwork to crucify the person, only to find out they are completely innocent and the masses are suddenly nowhere to be found. Zero accountability for their toxic propaganda.

If you could just
Get your mind together
And run across this zone to me
We could form a group and kill mobs
In our private harmony
But

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I would argue you are looking at the game from your incredibly biased viewpoint.

Oakwynd is terrible and it's going to fail.

Talking to tons of people in game (the non vocal majority) who tried oakwynd and didn't like it.

My group stopped because we were super tired and fell behind. The server is fine, and there are some things about FTE that I found surprisingly enjoyable and positive. I think the non-fte rules for Oakwynd are all great too. In the end, I am just personally committed to Mischief but if I wasn't already there I'd have no problems sticking around on Oakwynd.

Talking to tons, eh? That sounds scientific and surely not biased at all.

I, on the other hand, have seen many people pleasantly surprised on the server. Its biggest weakness have been the vocal haters who are intent on destroying the server because it wasn’t Mischief 2.0 like they wanted.

Shame that this was a short run for you. I’ve always enjoyed your streams and it was nice to see you back on for EQ.

Just bumping cause we're on day 3 and everything is going great. Pugged my wizzy up to lvl 20, never being LFG for more than 10 minutes. Chanter is 12 (playing it with my brother as a druid), again, very easy to find groups. Good conversations, many new people to help learn the game, and I've had not a single issue with FTE other than guards not helping, but i never needed their help /shrug. Lots of bot armies of course, wcyd, they are on every server start. Anyway, I know the miserable people who tried to ruin this server with your slanderous speculation hate to see its doing well, so this is for y'all.

It's a little weird that you're bumping your own thread you made for the purpose of convincing yourself Oakwynd won't be dead in a week.

It’s weird that you have so much anger for other people enjoying by this server.

Anger that Daybreak is artificially propping up the new mechanic no one asked for by not releasing a second server with a ruleset people who actually want to play EQ1 wish to play? Yeah sure.

Oakwynd will burst pretty fast like any other artificial bubble.

If only there were multiple other TLPs or live servers you could play on……