From my understanding, Verant Interactive (remember "the vision"?) was the genious behind EQ after they stole and abused the DIKU GPL licence / code base. Sony was the producer of the game, which basically provided the funding for the release of the project.
After it became such a cash cow, SOE bought out VI for the rights, most of the original dev team left, and Luclin was released signaling the apocolypse of EQ as we used to know it.
Anyone who knows more about this, or corrections, I would be interested in heading about.
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