Depressing news

[Irespectwomen]

I wonder if Akkadius will get indicted into this lawsuit, he stepped into the crosshairs giving a statement on behalf of the defense even though he redacted it. The only thing happening that really confuses me is the court is allowing the defense to seek arbitration because of DBG's TOS. How the fuck can you bind someone to a clause of a contract when that contract is shit on and disregarded by the other party.

Other than that the trial has gone as expected and THJ had no defense for their destruction of EQEmu, not only that but there is a very funny part in the transcript on how much THJ has earned with their illegal business venture DBG claimed 100,000 a month and that the judge should consider that when instating the bond. Later while THJ's lawyer was arguing the allegation that THJ directly caused the Fangbreaker he omitted that THJ had been making 20,000 a week long before fangbreaker was released so therefore there was never this sudden influx of players during the timeline LOL.

They're even more fucked than I thought. I wonder what the damages will be valued at, I could see 5-10 million easily and I can also see DBG digging deep into the conspiracy to bring in people who contributed to maximize their realistic payout.

[Duik]

People just forgot that the EMU and especially P99 was
A: just for those that have an original copy of the applicable client/s.
B: For people to relive original EQ that live could not supply.
C: TO NOT TO SHIT ON THE EMU COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE FOR PROFIT.

One of these statements is the single most important.

Im sure they (DBG whoever..) knew that not all peeps had a disc version of EQ.
I am sure.
But nobody had made (obvious) bank serving it.
THJ did. Fucking fucktards. Sorry, its true.

So while I dont applaude corps doing corp things, I hate ir more when people shit in my shared sandbox.
No matter how much "Value Adding" they feel they have made.

[Tann]

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

TO NOT TO SHIT ON THE EMU COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE FOR PROFIT.

"The real shit is the mountains of cash we made along the way" - Aporia

[BradZax]

Fuck that.

There is a fucking donation button on the front fucking page of this website.

[Tann]

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

Fuck that.

There is a fucking donation button on the front fucking page of this website.

do you get in-game "thank you gifts" for donating here that further incentivize people to hit that donate button? No!!! so fuck off then with that noise

[Cecily]

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

do you get in-game "thank you gifts" for donating here that further incentivize people to hit that donate button? No!!! so fuck off then with that noise

There's a joke here but I kinda like having never been permabanned, somehow.

[Irespectwomen]

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

People just forgot that the EMU and especially P99 was

C: TO NOT TO SHIT ON THE EMU COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE FOR PROFIT.

Exactly, Aporia and team ruined it for everybody. I don't know a word in the english language that accurately represents how selfish and disrespectful you have to be to do what they've done. This doesn't even have anything to do with muh corporatocracy bullshit, they destroyed a niche gaming community with the prior intention of using us as a shield because they knew what they were doing was overtly illegal.

They aren't fighting some big megalithic corporation that negatively impacts society, they're fighting a small business that allow(ed)s us to use their product how we wanted for free.

It is a small consolation that them and every moron who helped them is fucked.

[BradZax]

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

Exactly, Aporia and team ruined it for everybody. I don't know a word in the english language that accurately represents how selfish and disrespectful you have to be to do what they've done. This doesn't even have anything to do with muh corporatocracy bullshit, they destroyed a niche gaming community with the prior intention of using us as a shield because they knew what they were doing was overtly illegal.

They aren't fighting some big megalithic corporation that negatively impacts society, they're fighting a small business that allow(ed)s us to use their product how we wanted for free.

It is a small consolation that them and every moron who helped them is fucked.

They didn't ruin anything for anyone quit with your victimization.

[Irespectwomen]

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

They didn't ruin anything for anyone quit with your victimization.

Ah the old pretending to be retarded trick. Y-you are pretending right??

[BradZax]

First of all a thank you is not enough to predatorially incentivize people. And to suggest that's what they were doing is conspiratorial and based on imaginary trauma not reality.

There’s nothing inherently wrong or immoral about donating to a game and receiving something in return. There’s no rule, legal or ethical, that says a donation stops being a donation the moment a trivial in game digital reward is involved.

Disliking that model doesn’t make it invalid, and it doesn’t prove anything beyond personal preference.

A lot of this reaction feels less like principle and more like leftover frustration from pay-to-win mobile games being projected onto a completely different situation.

What’s stranger is how quick people are to shut down transparent indie developers who are openly trying to fund their work and build something sustainable.