[Elijah850]

Making a new Everquest with the same bones in a new engine and retaining all the geography and flow of zones is not illegal with an active and creative Dev team building new lore and "zone names" even if it ends up a zoneless world. Using the insane amount of information about the original game, original vision(before Smedley and corporate profits rushed it to fruition), and recoding the actual gameplay and network integrations etc. is not something that can't be done.

The sad truth is, it's all about the dollar bill, yall.

No one with the funds to do such a project is going to do it if there isn't a pay off. No company is going to fund it if there isn't a pay off. This is why Pantheon has failed. Regardless of how noble and passionate a group of people are, it all comes down to having the monetary freedom to get across the finish line with a product that people want.

Ashes of Creation is only where it is because of the Studio founder's passion and wallet thus far. Time will tell how that goes.

I hope for the sake of massively multiplayer online role playing games in general someone gets it right again one day.