I'd much prefer to see Sony just release boxed emulators. Sure, maybe it would end our purpose here, but I would pay $50 for a standalone Sony released server emulator (with proper editing tools, or at least the ability to play well with third party tools), that other people could connect to LAN or IP if they had also purchased the same box. I would be willing to pay additional for expansions (the ones I'd be interested in, anyway; RoK and SoV maybe even the full $50).
I've thought about writing something up as a petition for this. I know that Sony probabably wouldn't make a huge killing on this, but I bet it would would generate more income than a Classic server. In the end, I think they ought to do it to immortalize EQ and give it to the community, because eventually (could be years, I know) the live servers will become just a single server, and then the population will slowly drop, and finally they will have to pull the plug.
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