Difference between revisions of "Acquiring The EverQuest Client"

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See also: Everquest Titanium Installation Guide

Important Reminder: This is a player-edited wiki page designed to help new players to the server. It is not official in any way and does not represent the views of the Project 1999 team.

Where to Get the Software

As it says on the Project 1999 Guidebook:

In order to play on Project 1999 you must obtain a copy of Everquest: Titanium Edition. Only a clean Titanium install will work. You must acquire this on your own as we cannot distribute it, however there are many places to accomplish this. You do not need a valid CD Key.

Because Project 1999 can't distribute the client, one very common question newcomers ask is "where can I get it?" This question is slightly tricky to answer, but you basically have two options: physical or digital.

Option #1: Acquire The Physical Disks

This option is simple: beg, borrow or buy the Titanium Installation CDs. If you aren't lucky enough to still have some from long ago, perhaps one of your gaming friends do? A quick social media post might turn up an unexpected copy.

If you can't get a copy in your social network, you'll need to buy it, and since it's such a specific item, you're unlikely to find it at a local garage sale or flea market (though you could try). That means you'll want EBay, where copies of the discs can sell for $50- $150

Keep in mind that after you install EQ, you can backup your installation folder or make copies of the discs themselves, and then re-sell the original discs.

Option 2: Acquire a Digital Copy

If you don't own or know someone who owns a copy, and you don't want to spend $100 (for 15+ year obsolete software), you'll have to look for a digital copy. Once again the first place you should check is your friends: if you know anyone who plays they must already have a copy they can give you. Even if they lost the installation files they can simply "zip up" a copy of their own installed EverQuest folder and send it to you.

Otherwise you need something like EBay for digital downloads, but you won't find Titanium on Steam or any official app store. This means that you'll have to go somewhere ... less official. Somewhere maybe even kind of like "EBay" but for Project 1999, like "Project 1999 Bay" or "The PBay" or something like that ...

Is This a Moral or Legal Issue?

You'll have to answer that yourself, but here are some facts and history about the situation to consider.

NOTE: Further information on EverQuest's history can be found on Wikipedia's EverQuest Page.

• A company called Sony Online Entertainment once owned the copyright on the Titanium software.
  • Their business model revolved around selling online subscriptions (using that software) more than it did around around selling the software itself; in fact ...
    • ... future versions would be given out for free
• After many years the copyright on the (now very obsolete) software changed hands to Daybreak Games
  • ... who later made an agreement with Project 1999 and endorsed them
    • ... but did not give them a license to distribute the client
• In general, companies don't take legal action against people who use 15+ year old obsolete (and otherwise completely worthless) software, especially when it has no impact on their business model. Even if they did want to, it would be an idiotic choice financially ... but technically Daybreak could do this
• Project 1999 is enjoyed by over a thousand players
  • a large number of them do not own physical copies of the software
• Whenever you visit new sites on the internet you should always use anti-virus software