If the new company owns the IP they own the code and I am sure no user agreement from any IP owner of EQ allowed the end user to run their own EQ servers. The agreement between Daybreak and P99 didn't give P99 any rights but only allowed it to continue at the will of Daybreak. The new company has every legal right to prevent anyone from running their own eq server using any of the original game code. They could easily make the argument that emulated servers hurt them financially due to allowing people to play their game without needing to pay them to do so even if the people running the emulated servers don't make profit (spend all donations purely to run the server and not pay anyone).
I'd monitor the news and hopefully the company won't shut it down.
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01-29-2021, 01:58 PM
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