Recent content by Old Man Potter

You just proved my point. Copyright was originally designed to protect and encourage creativity by giving creators a temporary monopoly, not to act as an eternal blunt weapon for corporations to squash passion projects and milk nostalgia forever. Protecting property is the mechanism, not the...

Cute cameo from the peanut gallery. Appreciate you proving my point about shallow drive-by takes. ;)

Nobody’s saying “feelings trump law.” That’s a strawman. But laws don’t exist in a vacuum. They’re supposed to protect and encourage creativity, not act as a shield for companies that abandon or ruin what people love. When a game like EQ gets neglected or mismanaged, it doesn’t just hurt the...

I gave you a spanking last time I replied your Legal Zoom logic. Don't make me do it again.

Funny how caring is always framed as a weakness by people who gave up a long time ago. I’ll take being a "lifer" with passion over being just another jaded spectator clapping for the slow death of something that once mattered.

She inserts her picture into every Producer's Letter as if she were a demigod or a philosopher king. She's not Brad McQuaid, she's not Notch, she's not Chris Metzen. She has no notable accomplishments. EverQuest is not about her; it's about Norrath. She's got zero presence on the forums. She's a...

By the way, here’s the head of the studio literally inserting herself into the game’s "acid trip" promo art like some awkward self-insert fanfic character. Nothing screams “we lost the soul of EQ” louder than turning an expansion announcement into a personal vanity cameo meets cult of...

Sure, the thread title mentions the lawsuit. We all get that the legal angle exists and needs discussing. But talking about the lawsuit doesn’t mean we have to ignore the why behind it, the creative failures, the community betrayal, and the bigger picture of what EQ has become under Daybreak...

You’re not really debating here; you’re running interference for Daybreak. By obsessively keeping this conversation locked in legal IP technicalities, you’re shielding them from the real issues: creative failure and community betrayal. It’s classic corporate defense mode. You stay in your safe...

You just served up a whole buffet of logical fallacies, so let’s set the table: First, you hide behind "it’s their IP" like that somehow makes decades of bad stewardship and cash grabs magically virtuous. That’s an appeal to legal authority, not an argument about quality or vision. Then you...

Yes, a business that failed to develop the EverQuest franchise to its full potential because of incompetence and ineptitude. They are so amazing that they have to sue a volunteer dev team of 2 people that created a more successful product than their team of paid, seasoned "experts."

I don't have any real hope that Daybreak will do the right thing. They are a bunch of talentless washed-up midwits. They deserve to be called out for their apathy, negligence, and incompetence. Everytime we try on the official forums, our posts get deleted. We can care about something and still...

We hear this mantra every day on the official EQ forums from the sycophants and white knights that smell each other's farts.

Yeah, I’m upset. I actually care about the soul of this game, not just how much cash it can squeeze out of loyal players. You bring up EQ being 26 years old like that automatically means it's doomed. But look at World of Warcraft. It came out in 2004, just five years after EverQuest, and it's...