EQmac.com Redirecting to p99 website

[Kowalski]

Here lies Al' Kabor
dead because of Sony
Now it is no more.

[Swish]

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

The famed EQ live mac server site. Mac got locked at PoP, SOE ran it for years. For a time even free. Then they shut it down a few years back. The site retained all the servers forums and stuff, but was taken down some time ago.

while a good idea, why was it locked at PoP?

[Haynar]

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

while a good idea, why was it locked at PoP?

I am betting it had to do with continuing development costs, with maintaining two seperate branches.

A lot happened during/after PoP like increasing max item id's to start using 32 bits instead of 16. Moving to dx9. So there were some major overhauls needed to the client too.

Short version: cost to maintain a single server and the mac client. Its costly to keep doing updates.

H

[Grimjaw]

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

The famed EQ live mac server site. Mac got locked at PoP, SOE ran it for years. For a time even free. Then they shut it down a few years back. The site retained all the servers forums and stuff, but was taken down some time ago.

ah. so sony gave that server its own site. good snag then for p99

[sektolzer]

eqmac.com was a fan site that is directly dedicated to the only official SOE Everquest Mac Server. It was not affliated with SOE.

[Pokesan]

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

I am betting it had to do with continuing development costs, with maintaining two seperate branches.

A lot happened during/after PoP like increasing max item id's to start using 32 bits instead of 16. Moving to dx9. So there were some major overhauls needed to the client too.

Short version: cost to maintain a single server and the mac client. Its costly to keep doing updates.

H

Daeldaen would know more but iirc the mac launch sold so poorly development was immediately cut. a lot of PoP was still in PoP beta form when it closed, Quarm stun for example.

[Grimjaw]

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

eqmac.com was a fan site that is directly dedicated to the only official SOE Everquest Mac Server. It was not affliated with SOE.

ah, i see. thank you for clarifying that.

[Daywolf]

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

ah. so sony gave that server its own site. good snag then for p99

Yeah it wasn't exactly owned by SOE, but it was the unofficial official community site specific for the mac server. If you played on the server, likely you used this community website. Here is a waybackmachine archived example.

[Rogean]

I'm still trying to get a copy of the previous eqmac.com forums to host up, but it's waiting on Nikolai. Since it was pointing to a dead IP I forwarded it here until we get that database.

[nagmarr]

That's cool Rogean. Didn't mean to jump to conclusions just seemed really odd it would point here.

Cheers