everquest

Official Site: EverQuest
Studio: SOE, now Daybreak Game Company
Launch Date: March 16, 1999
Genre: Fantasy Themepark
Business Model: Hybrid F2P (Cash Shop, Optional Sub)
Platform: PC

Perfect Ten: 10 MMO haunted houses to explore – if you dare….

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Happy Halloween! Or if you prefer, Happy Scare-Related Holidays featuring the Stylings of Ed Casbar and His Electric Teeth. It'd be the best of...

First impressions of Embers Adrift, the Kickstarted MMORPG once known as Saga of Lucimia

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Those who know me will attest that I am not an old-school MMORPG player by heart. Every time I thought about getting into EverQuest...

Global Chat: Landing boots on WoW Classic’s Wrath shores

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With WoW Classic's Wrath expansion officially out, plenty of veterans of the Northrend Wars of '08 returned for another tour of duty. Among these...

EverQuest II resurrects the Nights of the Dead event for the Halloween season

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While some fans of EverQuest II might be understandably more interested in the month of December, this month does have some fun to be...

EverQuest rolls out Nights of the Dead for Halloween

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EverQuest is "creepin' it real" with the return of its Halloween-flavored Nights of the Dead, Daybreak's Darkpaw Games has announced. "Wake your weary bones and...

EverQuest kicks off pre-orders for December’s Night of Shadows expansion

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Here's something to make us MMORPG veterans feel incredibly old today: EverQuest is gearing up to release its 29th expansion come December. Old feelings...
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Massively OP Podcast Episode 392: Don’t rollback my heart

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Justin and Bree discuss New World's fresh start and Brimstone Sands, expansions for EverQuest and EverQuest II, the sale of My.Games, Final Fantasy XIV, Mythos, Echo of Soul, Shroud of the Avatar's huge rollback, and the Secret World TTRPG Kickstarter, with adventures in WoW and SWG Legends.

MMO studios and publishers large and small come together to support Extra Life 2022

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It's about that time of year when charitable drives are on the minds of many gamers, studios, and publishers, and just as last year...

The Daily Grind: What’s the most challenging boss fight you’ve ever attempted in an MMO?

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If you're a PvP dungeoneer or raider, you probably have at least one good story about a seriously challenging boss. I don't mean the...

EverQuest II opens preorders for December’s Renewal of Ro, EverQuest announces Night of Shadows expansion

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Mainstream gamers might be out of the loop, but MMORPG players know that the EverQuest franchise kicks into high gear every autumn, and we're...

The Game Archaeologist: Dark Ages, the weird lovechild of Celtic lore and Lovecraftian legends

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While the online world was fascinated by "the Big Three" Western MMOs in 1999 -- that would be EverQuest, Ultima Online, and Asheron's Call...

Working As Intended: My 25 years of Ultima Online

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Twenty-five years ago my boyfriend, Paul, and I walked into a shop to find a new game to play together. He picked up this...

EverQuest II’s Renewal of Ro expansion hints at a return to Takish-Hiz

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It's been a little bit weird to have to keep talking about EverQuest II's very much in production expansion and its very much live...
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EverQuest II kicks off Secrets of the Sands, the prelude to its unnamed expansion

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While the title of EverQuest II's upcoming 2022 expansion is still under wraps, players can start heading it its direction thanks to a new...

Classic EverQuest introduces new level 100 advanced characters for around 40 bucks

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Daybreak is boosting boosters in classic EverQuest, essentially raising the level of the advanced character players can buy. "New level 100 Heroic Characters are...

The Game Archaeologist: The legacy of Ultima Online

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Last week in The Game Archaeologist, we traced the history of Ultima Online’s origin, development, and testing -- not to mention one pesky in-game...

The MOP Up: Witness the creation of a Dauntless behemoth

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Dauntless shared a neat video of a collaboration between its players and artists: "Back in April, many of you joined us for a community...

MMO dev Raph Koster disambiguates sandboxes, themeparks, simulation, and stagecraft

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Veteran MMO developer Raph Koster, who himself is working on a sandbox MMO couched in a metaverse, is back with another dev blog this...
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Perfect Ten: The MMO studios that keep whiffing on new projects

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Everyone makes mistakes, and that's all right. That's not necessarily a big deal. Yes, this is true when it comes to MMO studios too....

Pantheon calls Brad McQuaid’s old friend out of retirement to finish the game

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A new article over at the International Business Times put together an uplifting portrait of one significant MMORPGs that is in the works. The...

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