Sony sold off the SOE to another company no longer owns EQ

[Loftus]

I am unsure how anyone could claim that the new Everquest IP owner would not want to protect it and shut off anything potentially taking away from said IP, including a perceived player-base, but I digress.

As someone mentioned earlier, I think part of the success of EQ was timing. There will need to be a second "perfect storm" of technology, creativity and means before we see what happened in 1999 happen again.