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Nice.

Google translation:

Daybreak officially recognizes the EverQuest server "Project 1999"

MMO players seem to feed some interest in the "classic" servers (whether operated by publishers or the players themselves). After years of existence, the EverQuest server emulated "Project 1999" is officially recognized by Daybreak Game.

Often, MMO players retain fond memories of their first massively multiplayer game - not always for its intrinsic qualities, but because of the excitement of discovery. This is probably one of the reasons why many players now seem to appreciate the "classic" servers, these servers based on the original version of an MMO without the patches and extensions that did sometimes evolve during years of operation.

We know some players prone to frequent or even operate private servers to find these original versions of their MMO. To meet this demand (slightly nostalgic), some publishers themselves open such servers "classic" - as NCsoft for Lineage II , for example.

In this context, in sixteen years of operation, EverQuest hosted cohorts of patches and extensions and some players preferred to preferred version (almost) original on the server "emulated" Project 1999. For years (the server was launched in 2001), the late Sony Online was content to ignore the official server.

Today, as SOE became Daybreak Game, the studio brings his blessing to Project 1999 so that it will remain a "non-profit community project." Players will therefore continue to operate the server "without risk of prosecution".

The measure will probably not have a huge impact, or for the Project 1999 nor Daybreak Game. But community recognitions are still popular and also holds that the studio takes the measure of the interest of the players for the original version of grandpa of MMORPG .