Can we talk about the future of P99?

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Originally Posted by shovelquest [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Im not frustrated, I assume there is a legal reason this pirated game is not able to release new servers while daybreak makes the lionshare of its rev from TLP servers (which it started right around 2015, and while activision was fighting to shut down nost for that very reason with wow).

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I said the reason likely is its expensive and they can't make proffit and dont want to wipe the other servers.

Again, there's no legal reason because Daybreak literally signed an agreement that allows new servers as long as they don't go past Velious.

They're not wiping the other servers, they'd just merge Green and Blue together as they said they would at the launch of Green (and as they've demonstrated with server merges before, it's easy to do this).

IIRC Rogean has said in the past that while server costs are not necessarily small, he has no problem covering the cost and a lot is offset through donations. And in any case, again, this wouldn't be incurring incremental cost; you would merge Green and Blue so you'd be left with the same number of servers as you have now. So your cost argument is moot as well.

This is solely a lack of energy/interest from them to do it right now. Which is okay and it's understandable. They're unpaid volunteers. Unfortunately it's par for the course for P99. Engagement comes in waves (including with Green launch where we waited years for it). Eventually they will get the energy to do it. Until then we just enjoy P99 as is.