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Actually doubt that, the EQ community has repeatedly shown that they are willing to continue to pay for less and less content on live and jumping all over new TLP servers.Quite true, but the EQEMU tides are doomed to ebb and flow to the tune of lulls in market when there is nothing decent available in the niche. For profit EQ has to be on its last legs by now.
Thats like replacing one broken, old, ratty couch with another you got off craigslist for $25 though...Pantheon could kill EQ if they get it right. I love EQ but I've played it to death. I have played most classes to max with an epic, some of them multiple times on different servers, and on PVP servers. Anyone who has heard about EQ has already played it to death by now. It is a cool game but I've seen it all and some of the classes are boring to play (melees mostly). If Pantheon can play like EQ but with improved classes and in a new world, and with a bright future and a fresh start, it could take over from EQ. No idea if it is likely yet, but it could.
That's true, modern EQ is nothing like old EQ.Even if they get it "right" by our standards here, it won't kill live EQ, it will hurt the TLP servers more than the live servers. The people who stubbornly continue to play current live EQ are used to playing a vastly different game (and clearly like it enough to keep playing it through shit expansion after shit expansion) than what Pantheon is aiming to be. They may try it and even like it, but the majority of live players will end up right back where there are now.