Official Site:Â EverQuest II
Studio:Â SOE, now Daybreak Game Company
Launch Date:Â November 9, 2004
Genre:Â Fantasy Hybrid Themepark
Business Model:Â Hybrid F2P (Optional Sub, Cash Shop)
Platform: PC
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Global Chat: EverQuest II’s 15 years of being in WoW’s shadow
For just a few short weeks of its now 15-year lifespan, EverQuest II existed apart from a launched World of Warcraft. Then late November...
EverQuesting: Contemplating content and communication on EverQuest II’s 15th anniversary
You've no doubt heard of the quinceañera: It's the Mesoamerican coming-of-age celebration, a giant gala commemorating a girl's move to adulthood at age 15....
The Stream Team: Celebrating EverQuest II’s 15 birthday with a dragon attack!
A 15th MMO birthday is already impressive, but this one has dragons! EverQuest II has added a new event for this year's anniversary celebration,...
EverQuest and EverQuest II launch new heroic servers
Daybreak Games has heroic server fever, and the only cure is more heroic server. Both EverQuest and EverQuest II are launching some new heroic...
Global Chat: Fallout Last
Bethesda's busy digging another grave for Fallout 76, this time by saddling the troubled online title with a problematic subscription service that is broken...
Pre-orders for EverQuest’s Torment of Velious expansion are now available
Torment of Velious, the 26th expansion for the original EverQuest, is coming soon, but pre-orders are a thing right now for those eager Norrathians...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 243: ArcheAge goes ‘queue queue’
Justin and Bree discuss ArcheAge Unchained, the Daybreak EverQuest and PlanetSide 3 situation, Riot's big reveals, Fallout 76's expansion delay, plus chat on gaming routines, gamers' breaking point with studios, and the problems with RvR.
EverQuest II announces the Blood of Luclin expansion, a new server, and a new anniversary event
We've known that EverQuest II is getting a new expansion, but details have been a little light. Thanks to the latest producer's letter, however,...
Jukebox Heroes: Exploring World of Warcraft Battle for Azeroth’s patch music
One of my favorite modern trends of MMORPGs is that studios are no longer saving the entirety of a soundtrack for the base game or expansion releases. Oh sure, those usually get a great album push -- especially if it's one of the bigger games -- but for a while now, many studios have also been releasing new music on a steady basis with significant content patches.
EverQuest II asks players to keep raiding without custom UIs for server lag test
I dunno about you, but when my heavily customized UI stops working, I tend to want to just not play the MMO. That's the...
EverQuest II kicks off Gear Up, Level Up to get people ready for its next expansion
So you aren't really prepared for the next EverQuest II expansion because you haven't done all your leveling and your gear is outdated. Shh, it's...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Is it time for Guild Wars 3?
Earlier this month, ArenaNet announced that President Mike O’Brien, former game director on both the original Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2, was leaving...
Daybreak confirms yesterday’s layoffs and ‘realignment of the company into separate franchise teams’
Yesterday, we reported on the sad news that MMORPG company Daybreak Games had suffered yet another round of layoffs. As developers began weighing in...
Perfect Ten: Kickstarter MMOs that raised the most money
The rise of crowdfunding in the mid-2010s swept a large wave of MMORPGs our way that might never have happened otherwise. For a while...
EverQuest II outlines this year’s festivities for the Nights of the Dead
It's time for things to get super spooky in EverQuest II as the Nights of the Dead arrive once more; if you can't celebrate the macabre...
The MOP Up: KurtzPel is getting a dash of Lime
KurtzPel is getting its newest hero, Lime, very soon, and to lead up to her release the game is winging a CP and AP...
The Game Archaeologist: The day Dungeons and Dragons Online dropped the free-to-play bomb
By 2009, the MMORPG genre had firmly established a norm for its business model. For over a decade, a monthly subscription -- usually $15...
EverQuesting: Live in EverQuest II’s Baubleshire and Oakmyst Forest again – for a fee
What the what?!? How did I miss this?! I just went to browse the new things in EverQuest II's marketplace (honestly, I wanted to...
The Daily Grind: Did you ever skip any great MMOs to play something more popular?
With WoW Classic in the news so much lately, I've been thinking back to 2004 when the original World of Warcraft launched. We've spent...
EverQuest II kicks off prelude events for its unannounced 2019 expansion
With GU111 Carnage in Kael behind us, we're heading into expansion season for EverQuest II. The expansion hasn't officially been announced yet, so we...
