A similar phenomenon is happening with Everquest.<p>The current owners of the franchise are pushing &quot;progression&quot; servers - servers that start with only the original game and move on from there. Though their numbers are hidden, most of the interest in the game as it is now seems to be in these kinds of servers.<p>These legacy servers come about - runescape included - because owners recognize the success of emulators that try to recall the original game whatever that may be. All the popular MMOs have these emulator servers - world of warcraft, star wars galaxies, etc. Some have very large populations.<p>The question I have is whether it&#x27;s all nostalgia or did MMO game designers collectively lose something as they tried to modernize?