Official Site:Â EverQuest
Studio:Â SOE, now Daybreak Game Company
Launch Date:Â March 16, 1999
Genre:Â Fantasy Themepark
Business Model:Â Hybrid F2P (Cash Shop, Optional Sub)
Platform: PC
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Massively Overthinking: Are MMO developers stuck in the past?
Earlier this month - so what feels like at least a few years ago - the MMO community amused itself jousting over comments from...
EverQuest runs into some fresh server problems overnight, EverQuest II releases new podcast
The server-related headaches for EverQuest just keep coming. Hot off of the heels of last week's extended maintenance, the classic MMORPG's servers found new...
Perfect Ten: Unconventional MMORPG magic classes
Earth. Fire. Air. Water. These elements are all well and good if you want to summon Captain Planet for some reason, but they make...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 273: ArcheAge Unraveled
Justin and Bree discuss ArcheAge Unchained, PSO2 PC, Elder Scrolls Online's Greymoor, Guild Wars 2's No Quarter, EverQuest, Daybreak, Sea of Thieves, and EVE Echoes, with adventures in SWG Legends, LOTRO, ESO, and Fallout 76, plus mailbag topics on rogue server security and digital rights.
Battle Bards Episode 169: Wild Things
Do you ever walk on the wild side in MMOs? Do you have a penchant for beastly races that aren’t merely reskinned humans? Then...
Classic EverQuest’s server merge update turned into almost two days of downtime
Crucible wasn't the only game struggling with downtime yesterday. Over in the land of classic MMOs, EverQuest fans were in agony over an extended...
Daybreak has apparently registered another substudio: Wandering Monster Games
Back in 2019, we started covering Daybreak's moves to register trademarks and domain names and social media accounts for a bunch of groups that...
EverQuest begins server merges, EverQuest II tweaks challenge raids in latest updates
It's update time for both EverQuest and EverQuest II! Both games are undergoing maintenance this morning in order to apply updates and merge servers...
Global Chat: Just say ‘no’ to coin weight!
When Pantheon recently announced that it would be adding coin weight to its inventory management system, little did the devs know that they were...
The Game Archaeologist: The rise and fall of Landmark and EverQuest Next
The year was 2013. Sony Online Entertainment was still a functioning and seemingly robust MMORPG studio, and its yearly SOE Live convention was a...
Massively Overthinking: The oldest MMORPGs we still play
When I was still a teenager in my earliest MMOs, the trend in the communities I ran in was to play MMOs sequentially, due...
Working as Intended: Sparking joy in MMOs
On this week's podcast, I mentioned that I'd just finished off Marie Kondo's The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, something that superficially seems unrelated...
Vague Patch Notes: What causes the preponderance of disconnected MMO endgames?
Yesterday, I wrote a whole column about how WildStar had some really great stuff in it. I did not mention its endgame at all....
Obituary: EverQuest and Vanguard developer Mike Hutchins passes away
It is always a somber occasion to bring to you word of the passing of another MMORPG developer, but it is also the opportunity...
EverQuest, EverQuest II devs talk up expansions, TLE set bonuses, and server merges
The developers of EverQuest and EverQuest II are a pretty chatty bunch, it seems. For one thing, you've got the latest episode of Kander's...
The MOP Up: Twin Saga blossoms into spring
Spring has blossomed in Twin Saga, with the huge Update 25 bringing a new Senshi quest, the Trade Fjord and Fairy Valley zones, the...
EverQuest is adding two new time-locked progression servers, Aradune and Rizlona, launching May 27
If you like to hop back to the olden days of EverQuest, to feel the game evolve from launch to very slightly after launch,...
EverQuest II adds Echoes of Faydwer mid-content to the progression server and adjusts the Diaku Corral
A new update is going live in EverQuest II with something for those who are playing the regular game and the Kaladim time-limited expansion...
The MOP Up: Star Sonata 2 reboots the universe
If you've been playing Star Sonata 2, you need to prepare yourself for the end of the universe -- and the start of a...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 268: Second chances in the apocalypse
Justin, Bree, and Colin discuss Phantasy Star Online 2, Fallout 76, Holly Longdale's move to Blizzard, WoW Classic, WoW, Star Trek Online, with adventures in LOTRO, Elder Scrolls Online, City of Heroes, and SWG Legends, plus mailbag topics on FFXIV's dungeon problem, favorite MMO group roles, and specific gamer types as warning signs for games.
