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Originally Posted by Trexller
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Every few months this topic comes up, and nobody ever remembers:
Rogean doesn't just own P99, he owns EQEMU. He makes money off of ALL the servers by donations to EQEMU, and P99 donations.
Rogean isn't just P99, Rogean is ALL OF THE EMULATORS except for TAKP which does not use EQEMU. (TAKP really isn't an emulator, its the actual legit Mac client, and therefore the most accurate.)
chances are he had connections to verant/soe back in the day, i mean who would really let some strange random person use their IP for free?
Why was P99 allowed to continue, when the eqclassic.org project (which started years before P99), was nailed with cease and desist orders from SOE?
Think people, THINK.
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With respect to your point about eqclassic.org what year was that? I could see a couple possible reasons. For one, if it was years before P99 launched that could have been during the time when EQ wasn’t really a completely dead game on live; so SOE had a real motivation to control the IP in that way. Once Daybreak started running TLPs they may have viewed P99 as a bit of a marketing tool for them; people see P99 and either start looking at what other “progression” type EQ servers are out there or otherwise decide they don’t like full on classic but they want some of that experience so they go pay for TLP…P99 has never really approached the kind of player base that would have made Daybreak concerned about competition so better to just use it as a marketing tool in a way.