The hamster who powers the server wheel isn't working too hard these days...with the extra time he hacked into the character select screen to Rickroll us...of course now "a connection to the server cannot be reached" is a result. Stupid hamster!
I heard they had been hacked and internal documents leaked (some mentioning a new project codenamed EQ2022), as per this tweet: https://tinyurl.com/3c9xcd8m
They used to have an area in each zone players called the dev box or the timeout box. Sometimes GMs would summon you there for a little chat. It was a small room with these cat textures on the walls.