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NCSoft has granted the 'Private' homecoming server City of Heroes devs a license to host the game legally.
(forums.homecomingservers.com)
this post was submitted on 05 Jan 2024
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Daybreak Games has done something similar with EverQuest (released in 1999). People have written a server emulator from scratch but it requires an official client from the early 2000s. Almost everyone playing on the emulated servers has to download a pirated copy of the client, but Daybreak has said that they're cool with it.
The interesting thing is that Daybreak still runs official paid servers of EverQuest after 25 years and is still cool with the emulator crowd.
Have they actually officially given their blessing to Project 1999 and people pirating old copies?
Last I checked, the P99 team's official stance was still 'we can't help you acquire an old copy'
Officially, no. But they're not selling copies of EverQuest Titanium anymore either. So they're ignoring the issues.
Project 1999 has a written agreement with Daybreak though.
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