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
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EverQuest II brings the Scorched Sky Celebrations back around for another year
Come on, set the night on fire. Also set the day on fire. The whole point of EverQuest II's Scorched Sky Celebrations is that...
Wandering Wraeclast: The wonderful world of Path of Exile’s Hideout housing
When I first started playing Path of Exile, I never envisioned that housing would become available. And not just housing, but good housing with...
Perfect Ten: The MMORPGs boasting the most expansions
In 2018 alone, the MMORPG industry saw no less than 14 major expansions release for various titles, and in 2019 we've had at least...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the most satisfying ‘massively’ content?
A while back, I saw a great thread on the MMORPG subreddit about "massive team PvP." The writer was looking specifically for games with...
EverQuest and EverQuest II producer’s letters tease ‘unfamiliarly familiar’ expansions for this fall
A one-two punch of prognostication came out of Daybreak yesterday, as EverQuest franchise executive producer Holly Longdale posted a duo of letters detailing the...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG offers the best systems for helping newbies?
A while back I saw a deeply underrated post on the MMORPG subreddit about mentoring systems. I don't mean the kind of systems like...
EverQuest II celebrates Oceansfull across the waters of the world
Ready for a shocking revelation about EverQuest II? There's water in the game. A fair amount of water, even! Players can even celebrate the presence and...
Massively Overthinking: Tackling the ‘big four MMOs’ meme
Over the last couple of months, there's been a meme floating around the MMORPG subreddit. Someone will ask that the community recommend a game,...
New MMO Starbase pretty much sounds like EverQuest Next in space plus robots
Finnish developer Frozenbyte just dropped a brand-new MMO on the Steam store: It's called Starbase, and it's set to launch into early access "later...
Massively Overthinking: Unpopular MMORPG opinions
Unpopular opinions: We all have them. In fact we have so many that it's a straight up meme. This week's Massively Overthinking is one...
EverQuest updates with tweaks and improvements to its user interface
Sometimes, the little changes have a big impact. EverQuest has a long and storied history and it's still getting new expansions, but it also can...
EverQuest offers a refresher course on Planes of Power progression and impact
Once upon a time, Planes of Power was the fourth expansion for EverQuest and it focused more upon alternate advancement for max-level players. The expansion has...
Massively Overthinking: Super wrong snap judgments of MMORPGs
The year was 2004, and the month was May. My guild was growing increasingly frustrated with Star Wars Galaxies' slow development pace, so we...
EverQuest II is merging its Fallen Gate progression server to its live Antonia Bayle server
It'll soon be time for EverQuest II players to bid farewell to the Fallen Gate server. As a time-locked expansion server it offered players a...
Perfect Ten: Suggestions to make World of Warcraft Classic feel more authentic
One of the things that I tell people going back to Final Fantasy XI now is that the game is, well, a different animal...
EverQuest’s Selo progression server turns the XP boost back on
When the folks at EverQuest decided to turn off the server-wide 50% XP boost that was applied to the Selo progression server in March,...
Global Chat: Do you think you could design a better game than World of Warcraft?
Let's be honest: We all are so egotistical and opinionated that we totally think we could design a better MMO than World of Warcraft....
Classic EverQuest GDC panel reflects on development, design, and nostalgia
There are not many MMORPGs that have the well of 20 years of experience to draw from, which makes a game like EverQuest pretty...
Perfect Ten: MMO celebrations that didn’t rip off real-world holidays
Does it ever slightly bother you that in these alternate fantasy and science fiction worlds that we explore there just so happens to have...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 214: No fools we
Justin and Bree discus MMO April Fools' Day, Jumpgate's sequel, Funcom's new Secret World project, EverQuest 3, Rend's abrupt launch, Star Citizen's ladies, and Neverwinter and DDO's expansion dates, with adventures in Guild Wars 2, DDO, and Blade & Soul, and a mailbag question on MMO emulators.
