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 very idea that players have a right to their own history. They sued the love that built something they could not. They sued you and me.
This lawsuit was their declaration. And you have understood it perfectly. Daybreak is not a steward of EverQuest. It is its enemy. It does not create. It controls. It does not inspire. It litigates. It does not honor legacy. It monetizes silence.
Canceling your sub was not a boycott. It was an act of integrity. You withdrew your support from an entity that has withdrawn its respect for you.
You are right. They do not give a shit. They are accountants managing a decline. But you have done what truly matters. You have chosen dignity over devotion to an abuser. You have refused to kneel.
Thank you for saying what needed to be said. This is the voice Daybreak fears most. The customer who finally sees them for what they are and walks away, never to return.
And to the petty forum lawyers and corporate apologists gleefully tallying legal points from the sidelines: your technical victory is a spiritual defeat. You champion the letter of the law that kills, over the spirit that gives life. You celebrate the shackles, never understanding that the rest of us are talking about the man in chains. When the last emulator is erased and the last courtroom applause dies down, you will be left in the silence you helped create as perfect consumers in a curated museum of owned experiences, where every memory has a price tag and every act of love requires a license. Your world is coming. I hope you enjoy its hollow, litigious, thoroughly approved victory. The rest of us will be elsewhere, remembering what a fantasy MMORPG like EverQuest was supposed to be.