we Daybreak now?
 

lot of downtime this week, big things are happening

hearing a lot of buzz from sources, we're being folded into the infrastructure

post your best leaks regarding the merger

The recent downtimes were moving p99 servers to a daybreak owned datacenter. Roegan et al were paid a roughly 300k to transfer ownership of p99 IP to daybreak and they will hire 2-3 of the developers from p99. Within 6 months you will need a daybreak account to play p99, and they will probably start charging for it. Expect outages while they complete the integration, daybreak has crappy IT team.

Nice -- more krono for me if they merg. (lol to all those that RMTed off).

This was very fun to read. And 100% imagined, but still very fun to read 💯

I heard it wasn't so much that P99 is being acquired by Daybreak as it was both P99 AND Daybreak being acquired by an unspecified third party. And who might that third party be?

/tinfoilhat

Curses, hit the quote button thinking it was an edit button while trying to add the smiley face.

Failed at RNF :(

why you ripping on Daybreak man? at least their raid scene is betterer, right guys?

Partially accurate, minus the whole third party stuff. A sale is a sale. The EverQuest franchise is for sale and a deal is imminent.

Daybreak did seize "de-facto" control of P99 post-agreement. That is fairly well-established at this point. It was after the agreement the interest in p99 as competition intensified as preparations for Phinigel's launch were made.

It was solely because of the ColumbusNova management shakeups at Daybreak that caused the heat to get cranked up on p99 as far as "unnecessary competition" goes. Prior stance under old management by Smedley was "We have so many subscribers of EQ and EQII in its current state. Niche hobby gameplay has never been our market. These few individuals are not current customers of SOE for a reason".

Smedley was retained for a period of time, but it was in name-only. He was no longer calling the shots.

During the management shakeups at Daybreak the millennials started to suggest to the veterans that p99 is possible direct competition. The old guard Gen X'ers could not have cared less.

The ColumbusNova shakeup from top to bottom, the review of everyone's job, and the hiring of new people (new people looking to make a splash, suggest ideas, rise within the company. Anyone that works at a major corporation knows what happens when you put younger 30-somethings into a position. They make and suggest changes that might not really make a lot of sense. Sometimes they are good changes, sometimes they are not)

Long story short, these newer employees started the buzz that p99 was a more complete product, and less of a neckbeard project than people had realized. It reached ColumbusNova's newly installed Daybreak management and a deal was cut.

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That's all you get boys.

It's coming...