EQEmu losing hosting

Originally Posted by Angelox

This is pretty common practice - even plain old web sites like Caster's Realm, Allakhazam, have premium membership offers.

will give SOE a reason to shut us down if we charge for anything here..... they can then claim were making a profit off there product.

[brinks]

Whats the status on the move? How much cash do you have? How much do you need?

[MysticDeath]

will give SOE a reason to shut us down if we charge for anything here..... they can then claim were making a profit off there product.

I was thinking that while I was reading his post, haha.
I'm sorry I can't donate, I have no money left in my paypal account at the moment. I will donate as soon as I have some money.

[Angelox]

So why hasn't SOE shut down the other sites?
Anyway, I had a "points for donation" system in mind, not really a "pay to play" one.

Originally Posted by Angelox

So why hasn't SOE shut down the other sites?
Anyway, I had a "points for donation" system in mind, not really a "pay to play" one.

What other sites?

EQEmu is the only emulator that I know of thats still active, and any individual server that charged, or offered perks for donation to them got shut down

[MysticDeath]

I think he is talking about the specific server sites, that have their own patchers. I could be very wrong.

[cavedude]

Some servers have been issued C&Ds, I can think of 4 off the top of my head. They generally had at least 2 of the following against them:

Well advertised (banners over the net, merchandise)
Very large populations (Well over 200)
Patchers/custom client content
Requested donations

[brinks]

There's a few old schoolers left around, most of us don't post much; such as myself. But just because we aren't known doesn't mean we don't exist. This project is dear to my heart and I want to see it continue its development.

So if you have a few extra bones you can spare, donate.

Thats all for now.

[Angelox]

I'm sure this wasn't the point Matt was trying to get accross - he was not trying to offend anyone.
But really, Doodman said to contact him for that. BTW, good luck contacting him or anyone for that matter.
I'm already frustrated with this donation scene, I see hardly any response to a major effort put out by the people that helped out.
You old-timers: I would have loved to have been here when it all started, and everyone was full of ideas and pumping in new things all the time, I know I missed a lot. I think one problem is people are split up into their own forums.There's not a lot of us in the scene, and on top of it, we're all split up.