Recent content by Old Man Potter

Fuck right off. What part of garbage in, garbage out do you not understand? When you hire woke people that have no business being game devs, you get disasters like New World. This is same company that created the "Rings of Power" abomination. Hiring woke people means you are putting identity...

Get woke, go broke. Now all the DEI hires at Amazon will have to get real jobs.

If anyone truly cares about EverQuest, then their greatest act of loyalty is to stop funding its corporate captors. Every subscription renewed and every microtransaction purchased only validates Enad Global 7’s strategy of managed decline. Ji Ham and Jason Epstein are ruthless investment bankers...

You are not alone. Not even close. What you have expressed is not just frustration. It is the culmination of years of watching a company forget that games are meant to be lived, loved, and preserved by the communities that give them meaning. Daybreak did not just sue a server. They sued the...

I'm talking about the EQ franchise and not simply EverQuest. I made it explicitly clear, so stop lying to score fleeting forum clout. Maybe English is your second language, and you have reading comprehension issues. Most likely, you're too stupid to think of the big picture or too dishonest to...

Spineless sycophants like you are the problem. It's people like you who knew damn well that Gaybreak was feeding you slop, but like a crack baby, you lapped it up year after year. You looked the other way, said nothing, you didn't raise your voice, you went along to get along, all because you...

Shutting down EverQuest would be the best thing that could happen to EverQuest and for the players. Gaybreak/Darkpaw is a hospice for EQ right now, and the stench of death is in the air. Anyone who continues to play them a cent is complicit in facilitating the ongoing dysfunction. Every last...

EQ Next was his baby. He greenlit the project. He hired Ponytail, Butler, and the rest of the hacks. His legacy is a graveyard of game shutdowns. He's the cryptkeeper of the MMO genre. He should be working DoorDash and should be blacklisted from the industry. Do you work at Daybreak or married...

Smedley was in charge of the EverQuest franchise from its early success all the way through its decline, and the results speak for themselves. As president of SOE, he led every major decision, from the disappointing direction of EverQuest 2 to the hype and eventual cancellation of EQ Next, while...

This is exactly the kind of big-picture clarity that has been missing from the conversation. You said what a lot of us have felt deep down but haven’t always had the words for. EverQuest was once groundbreaking, but now it’s a hollow shell. What used to be a world full of life and possibility...

The excessive number of locked zones in PoP is a huge problem. The Plane of Valour and Plane of Storms should not require completion of quests to enter.

Head over to Glassdoor and read the reviews of various current and former employees about the shit show that is Daybreak. Note that Jim Ham gets an %18 rating as a CEO. https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Daybreak-Game-Company-Reviews-E973097.htm Here's a spicy one: "Daybreak is run like a...

I too hope that this stunt by Daybreak kills EverQuest as well. EQ needs to be put out of its misery. Norrath will live on via Emu servers anyways. It didn't have to be this way. None of it is the player's fault. It all goes back to Smedley who has not shipped a successful game since EverQuest...