Recent content by Old Man Potter

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...

I stand corrected, it was 29k+ users on the THJ Discord. The server pop. on THK was 8,600. That's still way more than the official EQ discord and Fangbreaker which is embarrassing for Daybreak/Darkpaw.

I agree that lawsuits like this tend to have a chilling effect, and I understand why some see it as a clear-cut legal matter. But I think what’s getting lost in all this is the broader failure of imagination and leadership on Daybreak’s side. This lawsuit should raise serious questions about...

Thanks for confirming that mocking is all you’ve got left. You’re not here to discuss, you’re here to strut around and sneer at anyone who still gives a damn. And that royal "we" you keep dropping? Cute. Nothing screams insecurity like trying to cosplay as the voice of the entire forum. This is...

Thanks for confirming exactly what I said. You admit the system is broken and corrupted, but your only move is to shrug and say "deal with it." That’s not insight, that’s just giving up and calling it wisdom. We all know THJ is legally vulnerable. Nobody’s arguing otherwise. The difference is...

Funny how mentioning "soul" is what gets you calling for the Rickshaw, but endless corporate cheerleading somehow passes as quality discussion. Says it all, really.