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Originally Posted by Dolalin
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It's harder to change client code than it is to change content. P99 has several content developers, and it has fewer people who can untangle messy C++ stuff. This imbalance in skillsets plus needing to work around Rogean's availability to do patches and complex client stuff explains pretty much everything about how fast P99 can release changes. At least this is what I have gathered from my own observations over the years. It's not some crazy conspiracy, it's lots of people with other things to do in their lives making time for this stuff as and when they can.
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P99 chooses not to leverage open source developers who have this knowledge. It's a choice the devs here have made. If competing servers become popular they might have to reconsider.
TAKP devs made a different choice by releasing their code as open source already.
The scene currently is being moved forward by TAKP's open source release.
Assuming Project Quarm is the first of many iterations of the EQEmu scene becoming more mature, it may lead to P99 eventually having to evolve how it competes. Not yet though.
Perfect competition is good for the consumer and would be good for the player base as a whole over time.