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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...

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.

You are still confusing the mechanism of protecting intellectual property with the purpose of copyright law. Yes, it grants a temporary monopoly to creators as property. That is the mechanism. But the original purpose was to promote progress, encourage new works, and serve the public good, not...

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...

I acknowledged your points about copyright law, etc. My post was about the big picture: the soul of EverQuest and how a two-man team blew Dreckpaws' team of constipated neckbeards out of the water. This is a huge embarrassment for Ji Ham, Enad Global 7, Daybreak, and Dreckpaw. The EQ franchise...

Sure, Daybreak owns the client, the code, and the art. But that’s just the legal side of it. EverQuest was built on the backs of community-driven MUDs like Diku and Sojourn which are games that shared ideas freely and let players shape the world. Without that open spirit, EQ wouldn’t even exist...

You mean like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs which Disney stole from European folk-lore and fairy tales? ;)

Exactly. They could easily host in Iceland or another country free from the reach of Uncle Sam and the rapacious legal system here.