Depressing news

[atomicpaul]

i solo'd the sleeper a buncha times and damn near killed zeb once solo, that's enough. i think i laid my teenager past-self to rest. he dead.

thank you, thj. you killed a lot of emus but you did so in an epic, comedy fashion. as a professional troll, respect is due where it's due.

[shovelquest]

Awe man why didn't we play together atomic! I would have loved to kill zeb with you.

[Duik]

THJ is dead.
I hope this helps.

[cd288]

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

and they had 20k average users online at once in their discord 24 hrs a day.

P99 has thousands of people online in its Discord per day. Do several thousand people log into P99 every day? No lol.

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

I mean, just try to break down the $100k a month for crying out loud! Im gonna ask AI (at the risk of you thinking AI is always wrong and fake and auto disqualifying it)

But it says that breaks down to 10,000 monthly donators. That's 10,000 people playing so much they donate!

This is an odd example to try and use. Because you can make up whatever scenario for numbers that you want. For example, you could have 1,000 people donating $100 dollars each and get to the $100,000. Your example is completely made up and meaningless lol.

But since you like AI so much and think it's the truth, let's cite some AI responses on a couple of things:

- "During its peak, the EverQuest emulator server The Heroes' Journey (THJ) saw an average player count of 1,713"
- As of October 2025, there is no public proof that the EverQuest emulator The Heroes' Journey (THJ) ever had 30,000 daily active users.

So is AI accurate? Or only when you want to use it to make up some made up donation scenario?

Shovel is clinging to this 30,000 daily users thing because he's desperate to paint Daybreak as the bad guy, and he thinks that if Daybreak shut down the server solely because of daily users then it makes them look like bigger assholes. He doesn't want to accept that the primary reason that he can no longer play on THJ is because the people who started the server (who he idolizes for some reason) decided to grift players and monetize the server. If they hadn't done that, THJ would probably exist in some form today.

It sucks that you can't play on the server you liked. If P99 got shut down I'm sure we'd all be upset too. But you're directing your ire at the wrong people; you should be directing it at the people who ran THJ who decided to make money off you. In any case, no one here really cares much that THJ was shut down, so why are you on P99 forums ranting about it?

Why don't you go talk about it on the THJ Discord???

[shovelquest]

Originally Posted by cd288 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Why don't you go talk about it on the THJ Discord???

Because you keep posting about THJ so I reply.

[shovelquest]

So is AI accurate? Or only when you want to use it to make up some made up donation scenario?

No I asked it for an estimate, and gave the full answer, so you could use your human brain to make your own estimate.

100k a month clearly is substantial. That means P99 was making at least half that. I know I donated 10x more to them than I did THJ.

[shovelquest]

Shovel is clinging to this 30,000 daily users thing because he's desperate to paint Daybreak as the bad guy, and he thinks that if Daybreak shut down the server solely because of daily users then it makes them look like bigger assholes. He doesn't want to accept that the primary reason that he can no longer play on THJ is because the people who started the server (who he idolizes for some reason) decided to grift players and monetize the server. If they hadn't done that, THJ would probably exist in some form today.

"whY doNt YoU PoSt In TGhE THj DisCoRD?"

Because you literally call me out in this forum you dork.

I literally said that there are 3-5k users online at any given time on THJ.

That takes like 30k users to maintain. You just can't get that through your FAT head.

[shovelquest]

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

100k a month clearly is substantial. That means P99 was making at least half that. I know I donated 10x more to them than I did THJ.

(I meant its half of that if your theory about P99s population ever was higher than THJs which you seem to be insisting).

[shovelquest]

CD lets just take this to DMs.

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

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

yeah idk the correct terms I was just using my best memory of what they were talking about it when i was just kind of paying attention, but it's certanly an impressive number.

It definitely felt more populated than the mischief or even teak. Like, it was astonishing how many people were online.

The irony that it was basically a solo version of EQ.

I'd call it tragic, not ironic.

It's basically proof that at long last, no one really likes or has time for the entire social premise behind MMORPG's and before that, DnD itself, and if given a choice they will just fuck around with soloable versions of said worlds.

Shovelquest is a one-man billboard "MMORPG's are kickass when you remove the need for other people."

None of this is ironic. As I gaze upon humanity, I say it is predictable.