Separate anymore isn't really necessary (though some oldschool macs will be left out in the cold to my knowledge), but it isn't necessary to poof the community into oblivion either.


Al'Kabor's persistence as a viable community (the population is still there, definately greater than Trakanon and possibley greater than those that actually are still actively playing on Zek) despite being given zero support for 8+ years (the got Hobart for the last year doing some stuff)is the precedent players on PC should want:

Even though the game is dead in development, we'll keep it running if you keep playing.

It is also the only "timelocked" server in existence, something many PC players (this topic ruled TLP general chat the first few weeks) have wanted for years.

Putting Al'Kabor onto a server that Macs and PC can both access (It should be called Al'Kabor) and keeping it locked where the native Al'Kaborians vote to have it locked... would actually provide more options to the greater EQ community. All of this is entirely viable with the "new mac porting" Smedley hints in the post that spawned the official poll.

The Current Mac players may be a fringe part of EQ, that doesn't lessen their value.