Daybreak Sues The Heroes Journey EQ EMU Server Devs

If they aren't going to put more work in to these than there isn't a ton of reason for people to keep coming back. Even casuals have done everything they ever wanted to do several times over.

I'm not sure if DBG is just fucking delusional or just plain trying to find anybody else to blame for their incompetence as a company in the MMO space.

First off, the Fangbreaker server ruleset was pure garbage. Nobody wanted what they made. There didn't have to be any EMUs out there in existence for the Fangbreaker server to be a dismal launch.

The reality of the situation is that DBG (and DPG) exists today SOLELY because a team of semi-talented developers poured their souls in to getting the first 3D first-person MMORPG to market. World of Warcraft came along 5 years later and thanks to the fact that some of those developers jumped ship to go make it's game along with the overly popular Warcraft intellectual property, Blizzard took the crown from Sony Online Entertainment and never looked back.

Blaming an EMU server for their failures is laughable and obviously is a last ditch effort to try to save face to their parent company that wants answers for why they are sucking so bad currently. Even if they manage to get a pass from their parent company by blaming that EMU, who are they going to blame next year...the year after that... and so on?

The writing is on the wall. Their incompetence is catching up to them, and their misdirection is only going to work for so long before they get fired.

I'm too lazy to dig out my Discord message logs of me predicting exactly this outcome months ago when they announced this new TLP.

But I fucking told everyone this was gonna happen. THJ is too big and too monetized for Daybreak to allow it to exist for long.

As it is, the only reason I am still playing on Teek is because I have at least a half a year left on my cancelled subscription for my main account. I'd like to check out TSS and SoF in era... possibly HoT as well.

But that's it.

The TLP servers are just fucking boring at this point, and the game does not age well at all once you get past a certain expansion because you need to box your own group to do anything.

If it wasn't for some of the cool people that still play this game on TLPs that make it fun, I wouldn't be playing it at all. Literally, its you fuckers that make EQ fun; not the DBG/DPG employees. Most of the employees are just shitty people with bad attitudes. Its the players that make EQ worth playing. Period.

I'm not gonna lie. If they shut down Everquest completely tomorrow, I'd not shed a tear. It was an interesting two decades, but there's better games out there with less shitty companies running them.

Zaide said:

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Ok, so they're fucking delusional.

Good. Private EMUs that profit off a Company's IP are thieves. P99 and Quarm should be taken down as well.

It'll be interesting to see how this case plays out. I would think they could use P99 as a glaring example of an EMU that is directly profiting off of their IP and yet nothing has been done about that. Why are they playing favorites?

Surely it couldn't be because DBG and/or their employees are involved in some of those schemes, right?!

They bullet pointed out why THJ was targeted. But you are right, P99 should be shut down as well.

TheRealmOnline said:

Good. Private EMUs that profit off a Company's IP are thieves. P99 and Quarm should be taken down as well.

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P99 is fine they have a separate agreement with Daybreak.

I knew to stay far away from that THJ server. I almost made some big "why" post that no one woulda read anyways even when some did ask why.

These devs are so disconnected from the game’s fundamentals that it’s no surprise they thought this would fly. Explaining basics like “you can’t proc on frenzy/backstab” is mind-numbing.


It’s obvious they had a cash-grab idea — slap a multiclass power fantasy onto a hardcore legacy IP and milk it.


The worst part? The way they whip class balance around just to drive more purchases. When rerolling a character costs $10 - $50 in EOM “donations,” it stops looking like design and starts looking like manipulation.

Jackie Treehorn said:

I agree they most likely had a plan to keep tweaking the “meta” so people would eventually be like, crap - I need to buy some more EoM to change my class comp. They occasionally give out free class changes of course.

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it was blatantly obvious because they would absolutely CRATER builds instead of just tweaking it down. It's possible they are just inept as well but I assume malicious intent personally.