Daybreak sues THJ

[Knuckle]

I can't recall if THJ had any type of cash shop stuff but I believe they did outside of donations, or 'donations for gear' which has never worked if you catch their eye in court. Correct me if I am wrong but that is probably what brought the hammer down on them. I do feel bad for them though, because realistically DBG is not gaining anything from smashing them into smithereens, there is a very niche population that actually play EQ Live and they aren't going to sub or not sub to fucking EQ based on these custom private servers lol.

[Tann]

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

I can't recall if THJ had any type of cash shop

a cash shop they had, once you donated to the "pay the devs mortgage fund" you were given some Echo's of Memory in game as a "thank you" [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I only played for about a month but these are the things i recall you could buy with EoM's:

• a variety of 30 slot 100% weight reduction bags, these were no drop so if you had more than 1 toon you had to shell out more $$$.
• a slew of cosmetic items and skins that let you copy your favorite armor/weap set onto anything you were wearing.
• AA resets, class resets, name changes, gender swaps, etc.. a few of those could be done once for free but after that.. $$$
• global buffs that stacked in duration, giving everyone on the server permanent brain buffs, attack speed, exp gains, movement speed, etc..
• I could be wrong but i believe you could buy some fancy item to make items bound to you (via that power slot), unbound so you could then sell the juiced up versions.
• sell directly to other plays on the bazaar for some straight up $$$ > plat gains.

I'm sure there is a plethora of additional things you could do with those EoM's but I've forgotten em.

[WarpathEQ]

Haven't kept up with the thread but read an article this morning that THJ is officially shut down under judges orders. The article cited that THJ was making $100k per month on the project. Looking at reported revenues for daybreak games, THJ was stealing roughly 1% of daybreak's monthly revenue, which realistically should represent a much larger portion of their profitability given that classic EQ requires little to no maintenance/overhead. That is absolutely a material impact to the company and no surprise that THJ's action led to the lawsuit and ultimate defense of EQ IP.

So yeah, MASSIVE difference between THJ and a volunteer led, unpaid, emu representing the game as it stood in era. They don't care about a free to play community based world where people re-live nostalgia. They absolutely care about people stealing their IP, bastardizing it, and using it to drive substantial revenue away from their company. A company who paid tangible money for the rights to use this IP for profit with the expectation of yielding certain amounts of revenue to make the investment worthwhile (which btw could be the difference between EQ existing at all or not).

[shovelquest]

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

Haven't kept up with the thread but read an article this morning that THJ is officially shut down under judges orders. The article cited that THJ was making $100k per month on the project. Looking at reported revenues for daybreak games, THJ was stealing roughly 1% of daybreak's monthly revenue, which realistically should represent a much larger portion of their profitability given that classic EQ requires little to no maintenance/overhead. That is absolutely a material impact to the company and no surprise that THJ's action led to the lawsuit and ultimate defense of EQ IP.

So yeah, MASSIVE difference between THJ and a volunteer led, unpaid, emu representing the game as it stood in era. They don't care about a free to play community based world where people re-live nostalgia. They absolutely care about people stealing their IP, bastardizing it, and using it to drive substantial revenue away from their company. A company who paid tangible money for the rights to use this IP for profit with the expectation of yielding certain amounts of revenue to make the investment worthwhile (which btw could be the difference between EQ existing at all or not).

Had more to do with THJs overall success.

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

they would have been shut down with EoM or not.

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