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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.

Why are they idiots?

How many people on this thread who are dispensing legal advice practice law?

The discovery process at trial will be a PR disaster for Daybreak.

The current EQ devs fundamentally do not understand and appreciate what made EverQuest great.

AI-generated code and art are the future of game dev. It's already happening. The golden age of the creative is upon us. Spending $50-$100 million to make EQ is irresponsible and the misers at Enad Global 7 know it. Every week new advances in AI are making history. My advice is to wait till the...

Agreed. Anyone that posts that would get a perma-ban for sure. Darkpaw is living in a fool's paradise on the official forums. No criticism is allowed, no fun, no satire. Sad.

I'm convinced that the worthless EQ devs have sockpuppet accounts that they use to attack and troll players. I have reason to believe that their wives or faggot boyfriends are posting as well. The white knighting by retards like Warring McFaggot is nauseating. The CM Angeliana is a feminist cat...

Trolling is the current tactic used by the CMs to justify warnings and suspensions. The EQ forums are truly a shitshow. Nobody knows who this Moratorium moderator faggot is. I'm sure it's one of Angeliania's friends or relatives.

I just wanted to share a different perspective with people who follow Pantheon. Many of you think that this is Brad McQuaid's MMO. It is not. Brad is essentially a figurehead and a mascot. Brad is along for the ride and of course the salary. This MMO is the brainchild of Chris Perkins. Who is...

I don't think it's fair to blame Elidroth and the devs for the current pitiful state of EverQuest. I believe he's one of the good guys. John Smedley is where the blame should be squarely directed. It was he that mismanaged and bungled a potentially great IP and MMORPG franchise. It was Smedley...

Holly Longdale is officially the executive producer for the EverQuest franchise. She addressed the situation at DGB on Twitter recently with some boilerplate platitudes. She rarely addresses the community which seems par for the course at DBG. The arrogance and contempt for the community...

Sounds like you are talking about Steve "Moorgard" Danuser. As you mentioned, he's a guy with no real track record of anything successful in the MMO industry yet he was given a pivotal role in EQ Next. He was one of the first hired by Curt Schilling to create his MMO which never materialized in...