Chaos, you have to consider that potentially hundreds or maybe even thousands of people would need to have access to get the correct retail CDs. With used being one of the only options for Anniversary, I think the numbers would be far too limited, which is why I have completely given up on Anniversary Edition as being a viable option at this point. I will definitely be researching the new expansion pack that Congdar mentioned
Oh, and I just have to LOL if EQLive added Bots to the next expansion! I can only imagine that they got the idea from the emulator and maybe even used some of the code for it lol. If SoE was smart, they would use EQ as an experiment and actually make running your own server an option. Am I the only one who thinks that SoE could make insane amounts of cash if they allowed custom servers? All they would need to do is make the client so it can only connect to their login server and then just let people connect their own servers up to it similar to Neverwinter Nights custom servers. Hell, they could even still charge a reduced monthly fee of maybe 5$ a month and I am sure they would get an amazing amount of players back. I really hate to see an MMO die and EQLive definitely isn't increasing it's player numbers anymore. IMO, there is no excuse not to take a small risk and see if they can make a huge change to the MMO industry. I already even have most of the details worked out for exactly how they could set a system like this up. They could either have people host their own servers like we do in the emulator, or even better would be if SoE hosted them for us and let the server admins manage their "own" servers.
I wrote this a while back (and I was very careful to not even hint about the EQEmulator):
http://forums.station.sony.com/eq/po...opic_id=130077
But it seems like most people there think it is a bad idea. But, I think they just don't understand how cool it really could be. Ahh well lol.