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Originally Posted by Max
By viewing the numerous debates addressing this issue over at the Euro Chimaera forums, you may be able to gain a greater perspective of how we are making it fair for all servers and how Sun Crusher will never hold a monopoly of players. I'm not willing to repeat myself here with what I have said there - I've spent enough time on it as it is. However if you read our responses there closely you will see that we have no intention of allowing what you have said ever occur.
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So Max, you have stated that you will play on EuroChim, but as you know words are cheap.
Also the method SWGEMU propose to implement to get around the monopoly is for the people running the monopoly to authorise official servers.
Independent servers have to go through some sort of screening process and the people running the monopoly (SWGEMU) are the same people to grant that qualification?
It still sounds terribly unfair to me.
Push come to shove, when someone hears about an Pre-CU emulator and they have a choice between:
SunCrusher
Euro-Chim
TrueGalaxies
X server
Y server
Z server
Where do you think 99.9% of people are going to go?
And if the other .1% are who decide SC is not for them, they're directed to a choice of other APPROVED SWGEMU servers.
Dress it up however you like but its still a monopolistic strategy.
The only way to get around this problem is not to host a server at all. If the motives of the SWGEMU team are as honourable as everyone says, then theres nothing to be lost.
However, if there is some underlying strategy going on here, then SWGEMU will continue on this path.