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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Classic EverQuest’s Ring of Scale expansion is live
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)
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
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
'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?
Stop me if you've heard this one:Â 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
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
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
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
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...
Saga of Lucimia dev argues that minimaps destroy MMORPG immersion
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
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
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
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?
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...
EverQuest II previews the Bastion of Thunder
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?
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
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...
EverQuesting: Reflecting on EverQuest II’s 13th year
I am particularly fond of the number 13. And I am particularly fond of EverQuest II. So it is a happy convergence of favorites...
The MOP Up: Eden Falling brings the turn-based apocalypse (November 5, 2017)
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...
Pantheon’s social systems aren’t ‘simply bringing back the past’
One of the most interesting things to cover when it comes to Pantheon's development has been its reconciliation of two superficially opposing ideas for...
