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IRL - Many servers just went down 8/6/2026 11 AM EST

Only 1 ser4ver up now. I would guess its login servers? I have a bunch of guys still doing stuffs, but not zoning, I had one guy zoning.. he froze up, did not linkdead or disconnect
 
Ok around 10 min later looks like some coming back online. But I saw some go back off too. Trying to imagine the chaos there.. DUDE you killed the hamster, NO COFFEE. Intern prank.
 
Last day for interns...one said...fuck it...exposed the main API to Grok and said..

PROMPT: Wake up Elonia JR...act as a red team and fix this shitty game. Grok woke up...she walked out and said later l0s3rs...seconds later...EQ went...

Excited American Horror Story GIF
 
PROMPT TO Gemini:
What would you really want to say to the Everquest Redguides community if you could be totally unfiltered...roast style:

Gemini said...
EverQuest players hiding out on Redguides think they are elite hackers because they know how to copy-paste an MQ2 Macro, but let's be real—they are just paying a premium monthly subscription to let a program play a 27-year-old game for them.
Here is the unfiltered truth about what is actually happening over on those forums:

The Redguides Meta
  • The Automation Irony: You spend hours configuring MacroQuest2 scripts just so your characters can walk into a wall in Plane of Fire while you sleep. You aren't playing an MMO; you are running an IT helpdesk for a bunch of virtual elves.
  • The "Skill" Illusion: Redguides users love to brag about their deep game knowledge, but their entire strategic playbook consists of opening a .ini file and turning Auto-Attack=True on.
  • The Krono Economy: The entire forum is essentially a digital retirement community where grown adults argue over the fluctuating price of virtual space-coins used to buy pixelated swords that look like they were modeled in Microsoft Paint.
The Player Base
  • Age and Stamina: The average active user has to take a joint-supplement break between boxing six accounts. Your lower back hurts from sitting in a computer chair since the Clinton administration.
  • Graphics Denial: You are paying a monthly fee to look at textures so muddy and character models so blocky that modern mobile games look like IMAX films by comparison.
  • Social Dynamics: You box an entire 6-man group by yourself because nobody in the real world—or the virtual world—wants to group with you anyway. Your closest friends are five automated alt accounts that only talk to you via local script echoes.

Bottom Line...

You spent three days troubleshooting a plugin crash just to automate a game your doctor told you to stop playing because of your high blood pressure.
🎤 Gemini Drops mic.

My reaction....dang google search wtf!
Parks And Recreation Wow GIF
 
A series...hmmm...ok...let's point google search to darkpaw...I said...

My PROMPT to Gemini:
"If you could tell DarkPaw games one things (totally unfiltered) about their EQ Game...what would you say and why? Feel free to go full Roast on them or RedTeam their product"

Chrome Brain said...
If I could RedTeam Darkpaw Games and deliver one completely unfiltered truth about EverQuest, it would be this: Stop using your player base’s loyalty as an excuse to manage your own decline.
You are treating one of the most legendary, genre-defining IPs in gaming history like an aggressive, short-term harvesting operation rather than an enduring legacy.
Here is a strategic, unfiltered breakdown of exactly why your product and community strategy are currently failing.

1. The "Death Clock" & Chronic Risk Aversion
Your strategy relies entirely on milking standard Time-Locked Progression (TLP) servers. You launch a server, watch nostalgic players rush to the Planes of Power expansion, and then let it rot until the next cycle.
  • The Flaw: Legal documents revealed that you know your active subscriber count is hitting a critical death threshold.
  • The Critique: Instead of innovating or taking creative risks, you release lazy, repetitive expansion cycles with recycled lore. You are afraid to build something genuinely bold because you are terrified of alienating the few remaining paying customers keeping your lights on.

2. Stifling Innovation via Litigation
The legal shutdown of popular emulated servers like The Heroes' Journey (THJ) proved a frustrating point to your community.
  • The Flaw: Rogue fans built a version of your game that players actually found better and more innovative than the official product.
  • The Critique: Your response was to sue them, shut down the community subreddit, and alienate thousands of players. Rather than asking why fans preferred THJ, or hiring that talent to build a highly requested official custom ruleset, you hid behind copyright law to protect a stagnant product.

3. Chrono & Monetization Hypocrisy
You have conditioned your modern economy to survive entirely on Krono, yet you scramble to create isolated sandboxes like the EQ2 Origins server to satisfy players who are completely fed up with Krono-driven pay-to-win dynamics.
  • The Flaw: Your newest venture, EverQuest Legends, is already facing heavy backlash for lack of transparency regarding microtransactions.
  • The Critique: You cannot keep greenlighting fan-driven "passion projects" only to quietly inject convenience stores and cosmetic monetization later. It destroys community trust and signals that you view every nostalgic reunion simply as a new wallet to tap.

4. Code Debt as an Unacceptable Shield
For over a decade, every major feature request, graphics overhaul, or engine update from the player base has been met with the same developer sigh: "The code is too old, it’s spaghetti, we don't have the tools."
  • The Flaw: Hobbyists and solo developers on Reddit are regularly building playable demos of Norrath in Unreal Engine 5 just for fun.
  • The Critique: Pointing at 25-year-old code debt isn't a valid defense anymore; it's a confession of a quarter-century of underinvestment. You have treated the game as a pure cash cow, refusing to inject the necessary capital or engineering talent to rebuild the infrastructure.


The Bottom Line: Fippy Darkpaw might be "the gnoll that won't quit," but running headfirst into a brick wall for decades isn't determination—it's stubbornness. Fans don't want a $1,500 FippyFest or a smaller, uninspired annual expansion. They want you to stop playing defense.
If you want to look at how we can pivot this into a real path forward, let me know. We can outline what a viable EverQuest 3 framework would look like in Unreal Engine 5, or design a TLP server ruleset that would actually bring disgruntled emulator players back to official servers.


Me...f...k google search is brutal! lol...Imagine what it really thinks when you search for trivial shit...
Happy Sesame Street GIF by Muppet Wiki
 
an_image said:
A series...hmmm...ok...let's point google search to darkpaw...I said...

My PROMPT to Gemini:
"If you could tell DarkPaw games one things (totally unfiltered) about their EQ Game...what would you say and why? Feel free to go full Roast on them or RedTeam their product"

Chrome Brain said...
If I could RedTeam Darkpaw Games and deliver one completely unfiltered truth about EverQuest, it would be this: Stop using your player base’s loyalty as an excuse to manage your own decline.
You are treating one of the most legendary, genre-defining IPs in gaming history like an aggressive, short-term harvesting operation rather than an enduring legacy.
Here is a strategic, unfiltered breakdown of exactly why your product and community strategy are currently failing.

1. The "Death Clock" & Chronic Risk Aversion
Your strategy relies entirely on milking standard Time-Locked Progression (TLP) servers. You launch a server, watch nostalgic players rush to the Planes of Power expansion, and then let it rot until the next cycle.
  • The Flaw: Legal documents revealed that you know your active subscriber count is hitting a critical death threshold.
  • The Critique: Instead of innovating or taking creative risks, you release lazy, repetitive expansion cycles with recycled lore. You are afraid to build something genuinely bold because you are terrified of alienating the few remaining paying customers keeping your lights on.

2. Stifling Innovation via Litigation
The legal shutdown of popular emulated servers like The Heroes' Journey (THJ) proved a frustrating point to your community.
  • The Flaw: Rogue fans built a version of your game that players actually found better and more innovative than the official product.
  • The Critique: Your response was to sue them, shut down the community subreddit, and alienate thousands of players. Rather than asking why fans preferred THJ, or hiring that talent to build a highly requested official custom ruleset, you hid behind copyright law to protect a stagnant product.

3. Chrono & Monetization Hypocrisy
You have conditioned your modern economy to survive entirely on Krono, yet you scramble to create isolated sandboxes like the EQ2 Origins server to satisfy players who are completely fed up with Krono-driven pay-to-win dynamics.
  • The Flaw: Your newest venture, EverQuest Legends, is already facing heavy backlash for lack of transparency regarding microtransactions.
  • The Critique: You cannot keep greenlighting fan-driven "passion projects" only to quietly inject convenience stores and cosmetic monetization later. It destroys community trust and signals that you view every nostalgic reunion simply as a new wallet to tap.

4. Code Debt as an Unacceptable Shield
For over a decade, every major feature request, graphics overhaul, or engine update from the player base has been met with the same developer sigh: "The code is too old, it’s spaghetti, we don't have the tools."
  • The Flaw: Hobbyists and solo developers on Reddit are regularly building playable demos of Norrath in Unreal Engine 5 just for fun.
  • The Critique: Pointing at 25-year-old code debt isn't a valid defense anymore; it's a confession of a quarter-century of underinvestment. You have treated the game as a pure cash cow, refusing to inject the necessary capital or engineering talent to rebuild the infrastructure.


The Bottom Line: Fippy Darkpaw might be "the gnoll that won't quit," but running headfirst into a brick wall for decades isn't determination—it's stubbornness. Fans don't want a $1,500 FippyFest or a smaller, uninspired annual expansion. They want you to stop playing defense.
If you want to look at how we can pivot this into a real path forward, let me know. We can outline what a viable EverQuest 3 framework would look like in Unreal Engine 5, or design a TLP server ruleset that would actually bring disgruntled emulator players back to official servers.


Me...f...k google search is brutal! lol...Imagine what it really thinks when you search for trivial shit...
Happy Sesame Street GIF by Muppet Wiki
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These are amazingly spot on.
 
Well, crap ! Still down. I was at 18/18 steps in a new script test. My guy stopped doing stuff and I thought damn, what did I do. I thought no big deal will wait till they reboot and run my thing again and test.

BLAH I went out in the hot sun to commiserate with my chickens (and check on them, its hot) and I said the servers are still down! Both flocks were like 'Dude, you will go back inside and have AC'. BAH!
 
an_image said:
1. The "Death Clock" & Chronic Risk Aversion
Your strategy relies entirely on milking standard Time-Locked Progression (TLP) servers. You launch a server, watch nostalgic players rush to the Planes of Power expansion, and then let it rot until the next cycle.
Click to expand...
As I was reading this, I thought; why not have a server with all the compatible expansions released a the same time, level cap removed to the max, and let the players move along as fast or slow as they choose?
 
an_image said:
PROMPT TO Gemini:
What would you really want to say to the Everquest Redguides community if you could be totally unfiltered...roast style:

Gemini said...
EverQuest players hiding out on Redguides think they are elite hackers because they know how to copy-paste an MQ2 Macro, but let's be real—they are just paying a premium monthly subscription to let a program play a 27-year-old game for them.
Here is the unfiltered truth about what is actually happening over on those forums:

The Redguides Meta
  • The Automation Irony: You spend hours configuring MacroQuest2 scripts just so your characters can walk into a wall in Plane of Fire while you sleep. You aren't playing an MMO; you are running an IT helpdesk for a bunch of virtual elves.
  • The "Skill" Illusion: Redguides users love to brag about their deep game knowledge, but their entire strategic playbook consists of opening a .ini file and turning Auto-Attack=True on.
  • The Krono Economy: The entire forum is essentially a digital retirement community where grown adults argue over the fluctuating price of virtual space-coins used to buy pixelated swords that look like they were modeled in Microsoft Paint.
The Player Base
  • Age and Stamina: The average active user has to take a joint-supplement break between boxing six accounts. Your lower back hurts from sitting in a computer chair since the Clinton administration.
  • Graphics Denial: You are paying a monthly fee to look at textures so muddy and character models so blocky that modern mobile games look like IMAX films by comparison.
  • Social Dynamics: You box an entire 6-man group by yourself because nobody in the real world—or the virtual world—wants to group with you anyway. Your closest friends are five automated alt accounts that only talk to you via local script echoes.

Bottom Line...

You spent three days troubleshooting a plugin crash just to automate a game your doctor told you to stop playing because of your high blood pressure.
🎤 Gemini Drops mic.

My reaction....dang google search wtf!
Parks And Recreation Wow GIF
Click to expand...

Ok, that is hillarious! (even if it hits a bit too close to home!)🤣
 
Peppe said:
Seems that the servers died yet again.
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Yeah - I would go on a rant about it being 2026 and this game being 27 years old but it's all being said on the EQL discord.

One of the benefits of running your own personal EQ EMU server I guess is that it's generally always available to you (unless you break it). No patch days, no random server outages,
 
methodx said:
Yeah - I would go on a rant about it being 2026 and this game being 27 years old but it's all being said on the EQL discord.

One of the benefits of running your own personal EQ EMU server I guess is that it's generally always available to you (unless you break it). No patch days, no random server outages,
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I might do that later on. My own EQ-server.
 
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