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

EverQuest II unearths a few new Halloween tricks

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You'd think that for really old holiday events, most MMOs would just schedule and forget them. It's kind of impressive, then, that the EverQuest...

The Game Archaeologist: Ultima Worlds Online Origin

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While the heady days of Ultima Online's dominant position over the industry are long gone, the MMORPG continues to operate and expand, and many...

The Daily Grind: Do you have a hard time connecting with isometric MMOs?

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Let's talk perspective today. No, not your general outlook on life -- which I'm sure is cheery and as non-cynical as can be --...

Massively Overthinking: Epic Tavern-style player-generated content in MMORPGs

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Ever played Epic Tavern? Massively OP reader Uli though it would make an interesting point of comparison for MMO content. "Epic Tavern is a...

Free Realms ‘Sunrise’ emulator prepares for second alpha test

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Last year, almost three years after SOE shut down Free Realms for good, a group of players announced that it was resurrecting the title...

Global Chat: What’s going on with Daybreak?

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Do you ever give MMOs a questioning stare and find yourself asking to no one in particular, "What is up with Daybreak these days,...

EverQuest II’s summer panda NPC moves into the game for good

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With time running out to finish a series of seasonal quests, some EverQuest II players were fretting that they wouldn't be able to finish...
GO LEFT YOU IDIOT

Brad McQuaid: MMO devs are ‘making the very, very early foundations of the Holodeck’

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Pantheon and MMOs like it are bringing our dream future one step closer (or at least, Lt. Barclay's dream future), Brad McQuaid suggests in a new interview...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 137: Hotfooting down the Path of Fire

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Justin, Bree, and Tina discuss Guild Wars 2 Path of Fire, Guardians of Ember, the EverQuest franchise, Villagers & Heroes' Starfall, Secret World Legends, Star Trek Online, and Ultima Online F2P, with mailbag questions on the best time to join a guild and deal-breaker MMO features.

The MMO Book Club votes between Guild Wars 2, Secret World Legends, DCUO, EverQuest, RuneScape, ArcheAge, and WoW

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Hey, remember the MMO Book Club? That's the Reddit-and-Discord group that allows members to vote on a game to play, then organizes a guild...

EverQuest II stops making older expansions free, while EverQuest hands out skeletons

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Daybreak has quietly shifted one of the aspects of its free-to-play business model for EverQuest II. In response to a query as to when...

The Daily Grind: Should MMOs get rid of levels?

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I would like to say that when I was a kid playing my first MMORPGs, I was impervious to the grind, that I embraced...
Plus ce change choses, &c.

The Daily Grind: Which MMORPGs will make to to 20 years?

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Unless it mysteriously shutters between now and Monday, Ultima Online is turning 20 next week. Our Game Archaeologist will surely object to an assertion...

EverQuesting: Is EverQuest II in a downward spiral?

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Are we witnessing the death throes of EverQuest II? Of the whole EverQuest franchise? These questions have been at the forefront of my mind lately....
Everything old is... still old, but a newer sort of old.

Classic EverQuest’s 24th expansion, Ring of Scale, is set to launch in December

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Are you sad that the original EverQuest is so neglected? If so, you are wrong. It's not neglected at all. Even if you have...

EverQuest II’s newest progression server enters the Desert of Flames while production servers prepare for the Planes of Prophecy expansion

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After a summer of dwelling in beginner region bliss, EverQuest II's newest progression server is taking a step forward into expansions for the first...

Perfect Ten: 10 MMORPGs with playable fairies

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Probably my greatest and most constant gripe about fantasy MMORPGs is that for all of the freedom and imagination that this genre supposedly boasts,...

EverQuest II announces 14th expansion, Planes of Prophecy, accompanied by name purge

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EverQuest II Producer Lauren "Mooncast" McLemore has penned the September producer's letter for fans of the franchise. The chief announcement? The game is getting...

One Shots: A bridge too far

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One more bridge. That's what she kept telling me, even though I cautioned her that sooner or later our luck would run out. She...

EverQuest’s Phinigel progression server moves forward

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Thirteen years after initially launching to EverQuest's playerbase, the Omens of War expansion is getting another opportunity for a big splash. Yesterday, EverQuest's Phinigel progression...

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