Remaking Everquest with a modern game engine

[magnetaress]

EQ ip was like 300 mil. Gotta get Musk or Bezos.

[Evia]

300 mil?! I was thinking we could buy it for maybe 3-4. You foreal?!
I'm not doubting you necessarily im just surprised.

[Trexller]

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

I was thinking we could buy it for maybe 3-4.

you aren't alone

https://www.mmo-champion.com/threads...st-IP-is-worth

maybe there actually would be enough interest to crowdfund the IP rights, most of us who still play the game at all are at least in our 30s and have figured out how to make money

ideas about corporate structure? the top 5 donors are officers and the rest are stakeholders?

[Elijah850]

Making a new Everquest with the same bones in a new engine and retaining all the geography and flow of zones is not illegal with an active and creative Dev team building new lore and "zone names" even if it ends up a zoneless world. Using the insane amount of information about the original game, original vision(before Smedley and corporate profits rushed it to fruition), and recoding the actual gameplay and network integrations etc. is not something that can't be done.

The sad truth is, it's all about the dollar bill, yall.

No one with the funds to do such a project is going to do it if there isn't a pay off. No company is going to fund it if there isn't a pay off. This is why Pantheon has failed. Regardless of how noble and passionate a group of people are, it all comes down to having the monetary freedom to get across the finish line with a product that people want.

Ashes of Creation is only where it is because of the Studio founder's passion and wallet thus far. Time will tell how that goes.

I hope for the sake of massively multiplayer online role playing games in general someone gets it right again one day.

[Trexller]

Yeah game studios dont want ppl to play a game for years and years

They want you to buy new games every month and buy the shit from the in game cash shop

So the mmo doesn't fit that model very well

Buuut something like a crowd funded non-profit could get it right

Call it wikimmo or something

[magnetaress]

Thankfully there's M&M which is very EQC++

[Ciderpress]

It's almost like you guys have given up hope on Pantheon!

[Ciderpress]

I think at the end of the day, we were just lucky as shit to have been around and played when EQ originally launched. I don't count on it ever being recreated, which is why I play here and very much appreciate that this exists.

UO was my first mmo, and I loved that too during its 1-2 year glory days before the devs ruined it.

[Evia]

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

It's almost like you guys have given up hope on Pantheon!

So did Brad...RIP

[magnetaress]

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

I think at the end of the day, we were just lucky as shit to have been around and played when EQ originally launched. I don't count on it ever being recreated, which is why I play here and very much appreciate that this exists.

UO was my first mmo, and I loved that too during its 1-2 year glory days before the devs ruined it.

Putting all of the sandbox and player interaction stuff on "rails" that is what killed wow and EQ?. There was no stepping off the "designed and approved " path to pixels! To do anything else.