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: Alone together vs. forced grouping in MMORPGs
I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume that everyone has at some point seen the xkcd called Isolation, but if not, there...
Global Chat: The MMO blogosphere’s reaction to Guild Wars 2’s Path of Fire
It seems like the entire MMO blogosphere wanted to chip in thoughts on the Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire announcement, whether or not...
EverQuest’s Agnarr progression server unlocks its first expansion
If you've been one of the brave adventurers who rolled up a new character on EverQuest's Agnarr server a while back and stuck with it,...
Perfect Ten: MMOs obsessed with the floating islands trope
One of the fun things about this hobby is that certain tropes repeat themselves constantly. And they're usually weirdly specific tropes, too. Poop quests,...
The Game Archaeologist: EverQuest Online Adventures
In the pantheon of SOE's (now Daybreak) flagship EverQuest franchise, there used to be a whole family of MMOs gathered around the table every evening....
Hyperspace Beacon: Star Wars The Old Republic’s Uncle Owen problem
When Star Wars: The Old Republic first released, an old Star Wars Galaxies argument popped up, and the crux of that argument was this:...
Global Chat: What Asian MMOs can learn from the west
Usually when it comes to discussing world hemispheres of MMO game design, comments and observations are made about what western studios can learn from their...
Whatever happened to PlanetSide 2, A Tale in the Desert, and Istaria?
Ever pause during your day and find yourself wondering, "What ever happened to that game?" With hundreds upon hundreds of online titles these days, it's surprisingly...
Global Chat: You’re playing MMOs wrong
Have you ever lost your top when someone condescended to lecture you that you're playing MMORPGs wrong? You and Roger at Contains Moderate Peril...
The Game Archaeologist: EverQuest II East
Publishing a video game globally is a monumental task, more so if it is a live online game such as what you'd find with...
EverQuest II’s Tinkerfest offers new quests, achievements, pets, and craftables
Tinkerfest is live in EverQuest II once again as it always is in summer -- "like clockwork," Daybreak dad-jokes.
"Take up your favorite wrench and...
The Stream Team: Kicking butt with an EverQuest II butt-kicking mount
Thanks to EverQuest II's newest progression server, Fallen Gate, Massively OP's MJ has earned the amusing Pedipowered Posterior Punter. And she can't wait to...
RIFT brings on a new community manager
ArcheAge isn't the only game at Trion Worlds that's shuffling around its community team these days. RIFT announced last Friday that it brought on board...
The MOP Up: Crash Force offers arena fun at a discount (July 16, 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...
Global Chat: Learning from Master X Master
We've certainly remarked several times on Massively OP how much like an MMO Master X Master is, even though it firmly checks the "MOBA"...
Pantheon’s Brad McQuaid on skill memorization, mana management, and combat prep
When an MMO is deep in development, it's natural for players to want to know the answers to everything, down to the tiniest detail,...
Perfect Ten: EverQuest’s EverExpanding franchise
When Daybreak announced last year that it was cancelling the highly anticipated EverQuest Next project, the series' forward momentum lurched to a halt. This wasn't...
The Stream Team: Earning an EverQuest II kick in the pants on the new progression server
EverQuest II is offering a unique event for the opening of its newest progression server, Fallen Gate. Everyone who reaches level 10 before July...
EverQuest II kicks off new progression server after short delay
Following a brief delay yesterday, EverQuest II's newest progression server is up and running.
The time-locked expansion server will start subscribers over at the earliest...
The Stream Team: Lavastorm Heritage Quests in EverQuest II
Massively OP's MJ has been slowly streaming through all of EverQuest II's Heritage Quests (slowly, because there are more than you can shake an...
