[Tyhm]

I disagree. Classic was never just a pretty place for PKing, at least not in my eyes. PKing is what you did when you ran out of real things to do - once you got Master Li's axe and all the fullhearts that were working at the moment, you went and farmed newbies in Level13. And when they figured out they could stay on the plateau and not die instantly, you found a trainer so you could get up there too. Not that it mattered which way they went, they never knew which way to go.

I suppose it's a matter of perspective - those who've been playing it for a while always view Classic as A place where I should have all the keen PKing gear I've always had and go around killing people without regard to such nuances as morality, fairness, willing participants and hacks - after all, it's more fun to trick a newbie into giving up his invincibility just to hammer him into the ground, they say "WTF?!?" and log off, freeing up valuable bandwidth.

Developers and newbies, naturally, see it differently. Newbies being the future of Graal, quests being Classic's sole foothold (and just more fun to make than another halfway decently tiled PKFest to be ignored for failing to be Level13).

But again - I gave you Graal1998 for PKing, and you didn't like it because the newbies stopped coming.
That should tell you something.