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

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Massively OP Podcast Episode 149: Bringing back the MMO magic

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Justin and Bree discuss LOTRO, WoW, MMO holiday events, ArcheAge, the site awards, EverQuest, Pantheon, Ashes of Creation, RIFT, the Star Citizen lawsuit, and Funcom, with mailbag topics on horror MMOs and "iterating the magic away."

The Game Archaeologist: Revisiting the first three months of World of Warcraft

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Were you there? Many of us were. Many weren't. Either way, November 23rd, 2004 was a watershed date for the MMORPG industry and one watched...
This guy, though... he didn't get it.

Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMORPG articles of 2017

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For this week's Massively Overthinking, I've asked the writers to do something most of them hate: brag! We've tried to isolate our favorite personal...

Classic EverQuest’s Ring of Scale expansion is live

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EverQuest II isn't alone in getting a big expansion this season: Classic EverQuest has gone live this week with Ring of Scale, an expansion...

The MOP Up: Heroes of the Storm mains Hanzo (December 10, 2017)

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The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...

One Shots: Boy band cover art

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It's one thing to strike a pose and get a good-looking selfie in there, it's another to coordinate a whole group of twitchy gamers...

The Stream Team: Frostfell begins today in EverQuest II

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'Tis the season for Frostfell! You know the holidays are amping up when this winter festival starts in EverQuest II. Even though the festival...

The Daily Grind: Have you ever fallen for an in-game MMO prank?

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Stop me if you've heard this one: If you fly to the remote Hutton orbital space station in Elite Dangerous, there's a free Anaconda in...

The Game Archaeologist: Vanguard Saga of Heroes

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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...

Massively Overthinking: Taking risks in MMORPGs

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Last weekend, Brendan wrote a great column on how to stay safe from gankers in EVE Online, noting that the newbies are commonly given...

EverQuesting: First impressions of EverQuest II’s Planes of Prophecy

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November: A month of colorful, falling leaves, Thanksgiving... and an EverQuest II expansion! That's right, the 11th month isn't allowed to finish up until...

The Stream Team: A first peek at EverQuest II’s Planes of Prophecy

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Norrath has expanded! EverQuest II's Planes of Prophecy expansion launched today, and Massively OP's MJ just has to explore it. Can she find her way...
Yeah, there's no version of this that ends well.

Saga of Lucimia dev argues that minimaps destroy MMORPG immersion

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Saga of Lucimia has made a name for itself during its long development as a hardcore old-school indie MMO with a focus on grouping...

EverQuest II takes you inside a volcano base for next week’s expansion

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What would it be like to live and work inside a base located at the center of a volcano? Hot, you think? Probably hot....

EverChaosing: Counting my EverQuest II and Secret World Legends blessings

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Good things come in three's right? Well this is the third installment of the EverChaosing column, which melds Chaos Theory and EverQuesting together. Why...

All the best MMO sales of Black Friday 2017

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Step aside, turkey and fambly rage: It's time to buy stuff. Because we don't already unload our wallets the rest of the year on...

The Daily Grind: Do you want to see the return of experience-loss-on-death in MMORPGs?

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Last week, I mentioned experience-loss-on-death in EverQuest that was particularly irritating when caused by so-called GM events. Yes, that was in the long long...
Great plan, boy.

EverQuest II previews the Bastion of Thunder

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Really, no one should be building a stronghold just to control portions of the weather. It leads to all sorts of problems later on....

The Daily Grind: Are you thinking of WoW Classic as a totally new MMO?

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Early on in all the WoW Classic hoopla, I'd been thinking of World of Warcraft legacy servers as the sort of gimmick servers that...

EverQuest II takes you to the Plane of Magic

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Did you realize that EverQuest II is going to release its latest expansion this month? Well, it's November, so that should have been a...

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