Official Site: EverQuest Online Adventures
Studio: SOE
Launch Date: February 11, 2003
Sunset Date: March 29, 2012
Genre: Fantasy MMORPG themepark
Business Model: Box fee
Platform: PlayStation 2
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The Game Archaeologist’s ultimate MMO archives v3.0
Behind history are people and stories, some of them well-known and some of them obscure. It has been my mission in The Game Archaeologist...
EverQuest Online Adventures emulator updates fans on the state of the project and how fans can help
While the original EverQuest and EverQuest II are still running, the game's console edition of EverQuest Online Adventures shut down back in 2012. But...
Perfect Ten: Great MMOs that will run just fine on your old computer
The other day a friend was telling me that he used to play EverQuest Online Adventures very regularly back in the day, but fell...
Choose My Adventure: What Legends of Aria taught me about sandbox MMORPGs
As much as I enjoy the new guard of MMORPGs, with their quick-hit content and action combat models, I'm also not completely ignorant to...
The Game Archaeologist’s ultimate MMO archives v2.0
While The Game Archaeologist columns take up the most time of any project I do here at Massively OP, I absolutely love doing them...
Massively Overthinking: The sunsetted MMOs we never played
I've been thinking a lot about MMO sunsets lately, thanks to WildStar, Pirates of the Burning Sea, and even that ridiculous Free Guy movie...
Perfect Ten: Failed MMOs that could have succeeded with more love
Hindsight is 20/20. Unless you're blind in one eye from nostalgia, in which case hindsight is 0/20. In any case, you understand that it's...
EverQuesting: The history of the EverQuest franchise
Back in 2013, I took a walk through the annals of the EverQuest franchise's history. What started as one title not only blossomed into...
Battle Bards Episode 120: Short stuff
Look down — and it’ll be the last thing you’ll ever see! That’s because fury and death arrive in the form of short character...
The Game Archaeologist: EverQuest Mac
In 2003, Sony Online Entertainment tried an experiment to reach out to the (then) small-but-growing community of Mac users. The company released EverQuest Macintosh...
The ultimate guide to The Game Archaeologist’s MMO archives
When we moved over here to Massively Overpowered, some of us transplanted our long-running columns to the new space. I perhaps felt most devastated...
The Game Archaeologist: Vanguard Saga of Heroes
The significance of Vanguard's development, release, long-running drama, second chance, and eventual closure should be of great interest not just to game historians but...
The Game Archaeologist: EverQuest Online Adventures
In the pantheon of SOE's (now Daybreak) flagship EverQuest franchise, there used to be a whole family of MMOs gathered around the table every evening....
Global Chat: Learning from Master X Master
We've certainly remarked several times on Massively OP how much like an MMO Master X Master is, even though it firmly checks the "MOBA"...
Perfect Ten: EverQuest’s EverExpanding franchise
When Daybreak announced last year that it was cancelling the highly anticipated EverQuest Next project, the series' forward momentum lurched to a halt. This wasn't...
The Game Archaeologist: Phantasy Star Online
The Dreamcast was a brief but shining aberration in the gaming world. Coming along years after Sega had fallen out of its position as...
The Game Archaeologist: A talk with the man behind EQOA’s revival project
This past week we reported on an ongoing attempt by a small group of faithful EverQuest Online Adventure fans to bring back the MMO...
EverQuest Online Adventures revival project solicits aid
It's been well over four years since EverQuest Online Adventures was unplugged and its servers shut down, as SOE deemed the old hardware (PlayStation...
Battle Bards Episode 77: Spirit of Adventure 2
Steff has decreed the return of spirit of adventure -- and so it shall be! In the second part of this theme, the Battle...
Perfect Ten: The final minutes of beloved MMORPGs
"This is how the world ends," T S Eliot wrote in his famous poem, "not with a bang, but with a whimper."
That might well...
