The Golden Yachties series is MassivelyOP’s annual set of fauxwards, named in honor of some guy who was convinced we are all making bank writing about MMORPGs and that it is so lucrative that we’re typing MMO blog posts from a gold-plated yacht. Did Poe’s Law apply? Nobody knows. We’re enjoying the view from the yacht’s deck, shown above, however.
Today, we reveal our pick for best worst place MOP itself was quoted this year. And the winner is…
Daybreak v. Takahashi et al.
So there we were, minding our own business, in our lane, moisturized, thriving, writing up the latest in the Daybreak lawsuit against the Heroes’ Journey EverQuest emulator when… we realized the article we’d written the day before (about Square-Enix’s financials, no less) was being used as a source in the defendants’ newly posted legal filings. What?
In fact, this apparently happened twice; in the second one, though, it was Daybreak who clipped a bit from MassivelyOP, though it was actually a quote from a reader named Bob down in our comments. So weird!
Hey, you know what that means? Daybreak does know we exist, even though they can’t seem to manage to dispatch basic press releases to one of the few outlets that still cover their games, amazing!
Want to nominate another winner? Let us know in the comments, and don’t forget to check out our serious MMO awards while you’re at it, or skim through our past “winners”: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015.