Depressing news

[CrazyPro]

They have taken the server and the discord.
We have barred the subreddit gates, but cannot hold them for long...
On P99 there's a quake.
Lawsuits, lawsuits, in the deep.

[CrazyPro]

We cannot get out.
Jen Chan moves in the dark.
We cannot get out.
They are coming.

[Jimjam]

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

They have taken the server and the discord.
We have barred the subreddit gates, but cannot hold them for long...
On P99 there's a quake.
Lawsuits, lawsuits, in the deep.

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

We cannot get out.
Jen Chan moves in the dark.
We cannot get out.
They are coming.

This deserves being on the new page!

[shovelquest]

*echoing goblin noises and drums

[Reiwa]

Tears unnumbered ye shall shed; and the lawyers will fence Norrath against you, and shut you out, so that not even the echo of your lamentation shall pass over the mountains. On the House of Takahashi the wrath of the lawyers lieth from the West unto the uttermost East, and upon all that will follow them it shall be laid also. Their Oath shall drive them, and yet betray them, and ever snatch away the very treasures that they have sworn to pursue. To evil end shall all things turn that they begin well; and by treason of kin unto kin, and the fear of treason, shall this come to pass.

The Dispossessed shall they be for ever.

[Ekco]

it is what it is, fuck it, we ball.

[Bisonzabi]

https://massivelyop.com/2025/09/27/t...dark/#comments
Oh man the comment section is pure lunacy. Crying how people not being able to profit 100k a month off someone else's IP is due to late stage capitalism.
Only under a People's Democratic Republic can we truly find salvation for Everquest!
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[shovelquest]

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

Oh man the comment section is pure lunacy. Crying how people not being able to profit 100k a month off someone else's IP is due to late stage capitalism.
Only under a People's Democratic Republic can we truly find salvation for Everquest!

Thieving EMU community upset that 1 of them didn't steal the game correctly lol

[sammoHung]

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

Thieving EMU community upset that 1 of them didn't steal the game correctly lol

It has been an unwritten rule on EQEmu for over a decade - don't fucking monetize. For the sake of the community as a whole, everybody (except a few rogue admins) abided by this.

But these fuckin pricks, Takahashi and Alexander decided to turn running an emulated server into a career. They were probably over the moons and so proud of themselves for turning a HUGE profit on an emu.

Despite warnings from other devs and admins: they pushed forward and ON TOP OF THAT tried to play coy, feign innocence and ignorance, and go toe-to-toe with a legal team that SPECIALIZES IN IP THEFT.

As a result, the entire EQEmu community, which has existed mostly peacefully and left alone for 15+ years has been shaken up. Servers that people have played on for 10+ years are shut down. The communities they gathered in are shut down.

We are insulated here on p99 - but the fallout from this shit is crazy. Imagine waking up tomorrow and Rogaen announces that at midnight, he's closing the Discord, Forums, eqemulator.org, and shutting down all P99 servers. On top of that, the reddit mobs at /r/Project1999 decide to permanently shut the sub down.

Now there would be droves of p99 players that called this community and have NO WHERE to go to continue that community connection, except for guild discords.

That is what happened yesterday, for Project EQ, EZ Server, and a half-dozen other EQEmu's that were playing by the unwritten rules of DO NOT TRY TO MAKE A PROFIT ON EQEMU.

[Reiwa]

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

It has been an unwritten rule on EQEmu for over a decade - don't fucking monetize. For the sake of the community as a whole, everybody (except a few rogue admins) abided by this.

But these fuckin pricks, Takahashi and Alexander decided to turn running an emulated server into a career. They were probably over the moons and so proud of themselves for turning a HUGE profit on an emu.

Despite warnings from other devs and admins: they pushed forward and ON TOP OF THAT tried to play coy, feign innocence and ignorance, and go toe-to-toe with a legal team that SPECIALIZES IN IP THEFT.

As a result, the entire EQEmu community, which has existed mostly peacefully and left alone for 15+ years has been shaken up. Servers that people have played on for 10+ years are shut down. The communities they gathered in are shut down.

We are insulated here on p99 - but the fallout from this shit is crazy. Imagine waking up tomorrow and Rogaen announces that at midnight, he's closing the Discord, Forums, eqemulator.org, and shutting down all P99 servers. On top of that, the reddit mobs at /r/Project1999 decide to permanently shut the sub down.

Now there would be droves of p99 players that called this community and have NO WHERE to go to continue that community connection, except for guild discords.

That is what happened yesterday, for Project EQ, EZ Server, and a half-dozen other EQEmu's that were playing by the unwritten rules of DO NOT TRY TO MAKE A PROFIT ON EQEMU.

Mostly peaceful IP theft. It's not like they became so emboldened in a vacuum.