we Daybreak now?

[Mead]

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

It's coming...

SoL?

[Jimjam]

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

SoL?

Shit Outta Luck or Shadows of Luclin?

[Lhancelot]

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

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.

Azzar posting hidden knowledge and truth up in here, better watch your back man. No clue who your source is, but you balancing precariously on a tiny tightrope above a canyon of death divulging so much here to the peasants.

***Nice intro Pokesan, to get the ball rolling on this one.

[Lhancelot]

Originally Posted by Spyder73 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

No bull sh!t I heard that Rogean Industries LLC was audited at the behest of Daybreak to make sure they were not violating the ToS and they found the company was indeed making money on P99 so Daybreak is putting the kibosh on the whole project.

How many lives will be lost and wander aimlessly when the day comes they try to log in to p99, only to find it no longer exists? [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[indiscriminate_hater]

wipe imminent

[Lhancelot]

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

wipe imminent

Wonder how they will do it.

Will we all get personal emails letting us know, or will Rogean have an open letter on the forums one day, explaining how "it's been a long, wonderful run but as all good things must, it has come to an end...."

Sad days man, sad days.

I was just starting to really feel like I was part of this community, too.

All the insults and bickering with other forumquesters really made me feel like I was part of something special here; a highly dysfunctional, but loving family, nonetheless.

I will miss you guys.

[skarlorn]

Just checked upstairs it's all confirmed

[Haynar]

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

Just checked upstairs it's all confirmed

Was $3,000,000 .... not $300k.

Goofballs.

[Papa]

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

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.

best post in thread, and it's the first reply to OP [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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

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

i mean... yes? it is? lol

[Lhancelot]

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

Was $3,000,000 .... not $300k.

Goofballs.

Obvious damage control. ^^^

Too late Haynar, too late! The bucket of beans been spilt man.