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Originally Posted by cd288
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I mean to be clear an IP owner doesn't need "easy legal ammo" to enforce their IP. They can get an injunction whenever they want.
The one thing I think that goes against the population argument is that when Green launched there were over 2,000 people on the server and Daybreak didn't try to pull any shenanigans to try to revoke the agreement. Quarm has had a lot of people on it too, and Daybreak just asked them to remove certain custom content and agree not to go past a certain expansion (IIRC). They seem to understand there is a certain amount of goodwill/PR by allowing emulated servers to exist, but they have historically had a problem if they think you're going to try and monetize it.
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You have valid points, but DBG has had multiple leadership changeovers since P99's peak who were more friendly toward the EQemu and p99 communities. This is fairly well known. DBG wasnt bought out until 2020 by EG7. Smedly left in 2015, was replaced, and his replacement was gone in 2016. I mean its really not the same situation. Quarm and P99 at the peakest of peaks didnt have anywhere near the same pop as THJs peak and it attracted different crowds. THJ was pulling directly from retail players, where as P99 and Quarm and any other more classic style iteration have only been attractive toward a niche crowd of old school EQ lovers who havent touched retail EQ in a long time. They saw P99 and Quarm or even Al'Kabor was not pulling their players away or affecting their revenue. The whole argument that monetizing it suddenly is a problem just falls flat to me. Why would the company suddenly care if someone else is profiting if its not affecting their revenue at all? Seems like being petty/spiteful more than "protecting their IP". Doesn't make sense, which means it must have been affecting their revenue more than them just being upset someone else is making money.
I want to be clear im not trying to justify their cash shop or making tons of money off THJ, I just outright reject the narrative that it was mainly because of that reason. The P99 community has been vehemently opposed to RMT since the start, and its ingrained in the culture, so when they see THJ getting shut down and one of the key differences is that they monetized it, the players here want to assume that's the reason because of their deeply seeded hatred of RMT. They a corporation, they are calculated. They arent going to stir the pot just out of spite. They could clearly see THJ was affecting their revenue, it was being advertised ALL over the place with multiple EQ content creators on youtube and other social media gushing over THJ while simultaneously trashing DBG for inferior product.