SOE Becomes Daybreak / Russian shutdown

Maybe this will finally get the government to ban these virtual currencies like Krono, Xbox Live Points, etc...

Pyros said:

They run quite a lot of games really. EQ1 and EQ2 both of which still probably have ~50-100k players, Planetside 2 which still probably has a fair amount of players, DCUO which apparently hasn't closed down yet somehow, H1Z1 which does have crates/keys system although the game is more or less dead nowadays after PUBG and Fortnite, D&D online which is probably only a small amount of players and LOTRO which still releases expansions and shit so I assume they're like EQ/EQ2 and has a fair amount of players still, a lot of which are probably whales and shit that have been playing for 10years now plus it's F2P and sells a bunch of shit.

So overall, it does seem like a very solid low profile portfolio with a fair amount of fake currency being generated everyday. All these games have cash shop systems and the mmos especially have all the usual mmo systems that some people can't seem to stop using like race changes, name changes, server transfers and so on, as well as some F2P games thrown in.

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Oddly enough DDO is still going strong. They just put a new xpac out in Nov/Dec and did a major class overhaul a couple weeks ago. The people that still play it are seriously devoted.

Well, this may explain why the Russian guilds were so good in EQ2.

Maybe Schilling will buy it all up.

How far is this trail of breadcrumbs going to lead? It's only a matter of time before they figure out that Putin hired Tyen to spam Facebook with all his bots, winning the election for Trump.

Man you're really tryharding tonight. Are you angling to become the new Everquest Czar?

Don't get me wrong it would be hilarious if Tyen was in charge of Everquest in the future. So meta.

tyen said:

my weiner is so hard tonight knowing the only reason daybreak reached out to rogaine was to bitch about me

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But you weren't doing anything bad?

tyen sperging out special tonight

moonarchia said:

Oddly enough DDO is still going strong. They just put a new xpac out in Nov/Dec and did a major class overhaul a couple weeks ago. The people that still play it are seriously devoted.

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Anyone know how's LOTRO holding up? Anyone still playing LOTRO? Hearing about it in this thread re: still releasing expacs has me wanting to check it out. I liked a lot of the design choices and the traditional MMO group experience.

Tried to get into back into WoW with Legion-- but too new school.

tyen said:

Came to the conclusion that every single one of them, including top brass, has absoluely no plans for if EQ shuts down. Better than that, When/If EQ shuts down, they have absolutely no plans to do anything differently.

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I became a developer when Al'Kabor sunset and I've been on a mission to preserve EQ ever since. For the last 4.5 years I've been parsing NPC statistics and deciphering game mechanics-- and that's pretty much all I've been doing in my free time since. (although did play Path of Exile for a few months. good game)

My plan was to start collecting immediately instead of waiting for a shutdown notice and scrambling to collect data in a short time frame like what happened to Al'Kabor, so I prioritized my collection accordingly. So I wouldn't say that there is 'no plan'.

I work at The Al'Kabor Project which is a PoP era emu that the EQMac community plays on. (we also support a PC client) We're still in Velious and will launch Luclin in a few months. However I have all raid bosses up through an including PoP already parsed, because I didn't want to have the most significant raid content unparsed in the event of a shutdown. I also have video of events (like the Bertox event) so they can be recreated with precision even if EQ shuts down.

I also wrote a data collection guide awhile back so people could get up to speed quickly and start contributing if they were so inclined: Data Collection - The Al'Kabor Project Wiki

This Daybreak news is certainly going to affect what data I collect now. 2 days ago I was freting over 10 resist value on common NPCs in non-raid zones. Now I'll have to shift priorities. If anybody wants to help out, it doesn't require a lot of technical ability-- just a tolerance for tedium.

tyen said:

Came to the conclusion that every single one of them, including top brass, has absoluely no plans for if EQ shuts down. Better than that, When/If EQ shuts down, they have absolutely no plans to do anything differently.

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Of course they don't, why should they? If the company collapses hard enough for the plug to be abruptly pulled then no one is being paid to care.