Yeah, they are consolidating a bit I think to focus on EQ Next. I have not been too impressed with that so far though. They have some great ideas with the games AI but I'm scared they are going to live on that too much and the rest of the game will be lacking...
As for Vanguard, there is a guy asking people that are still playing the game to download and run his tool in the background to collect data. He plans to open up and emulated version of the game shortly after it's shut down. It seems a bit far fetched, unless he can find some way to get some of the real code from SOE as the game was just so massive and different from MMO's of it's time. We'll see, if he can get enough data collected and then get a leak or two from someone at SOE that doesn't want to see Vanguard disappear completely, he may have a chance.
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