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
everquest
The Daily Grind: What MMO is never ever gonna launch?
I have a bad feeling about some of the MMOs and pseudo-MMOs we have on the way in 2016.
The Division? That thing has been...
The Game Archaeologist: Asheron’s Call
It's hard being the youngest child -- you get the hand-me-downs, suffer through swirlies by older siblings, and eventually develop such a neurosis that...
Perfect Ten: The biggest MMORPG news stories of 2015
For as long as Massively Overpowered exists, this will be one of the most memorable years in our site's history. It was the year...
Global Chat: Being thankful in MMOs
Last month's Thanksgiving holiday in the US prompted several MMO bloggers to share their thanks for gaming and other geeky goodness. Stars of the...
EverQuest’s anti-multiboxing progression server is now live
Classic EverQuest's latest time-locked progression server, Phinigel, successfully launched last night. Nicknamed "the true box progression server," it metes out expansion content at a...
David Georgeson and Jeremy Soule are working together on a mystery project
David Georgeson is best known, of late, for the work he did on both Landmark and EverQuest Next before departing Daybreak. Jeremy Soule is...
The Stream Team: Soloing on EverQuest II’s Stormhold progression server
MassivelyOP's MJ has talked about how difficult it was to solo in the group-centric early days of EQII, but have you seen it? With...
EverQuest II’s top 10 Player Studio items
Have you ever wondered which of those player-created items in EverQuest II's marketplace sold the best? Well let's just say if you've purchased the...
Exploring ‘The Video Game Debate’: Games and education
We've got some really smart commenters here at MassivelyOP, and I think they help keep the fiercer trolls away. But when Joystiq itself went under,...
EverQuest II begins planning 13th expansion
We hope EverQuest II players aren't going to get too comfy in last month's Terrors of Thalumbra, as Daybreak is already hard at work planning...
Massively OP’s holiday gift guide for EverQuest franchise and Daybreak fans
It's that time of year again: when you realize half-way through your indulgence of in-game festivals that you totally forgot to go out and...
The Game Archaeologist: Ultima X Odyssey
I think any MMO veteran has a private list of prematurely canceled games that he or she deeply wishes had been completed and launched....
Daybreak gifts two weeks of All-Access membership to EverQuest II returnees
Almost everyone knows that EverQuest II's newest expansion launched last week, but what you might not realize is that the very same day, Daybreak launched...
EverQuest’s multibox-free progression server is coming December 9th
We first heard about the possibility of a bot-free EverQuest progression server back at E3. Now on December 9th, that server will become a...
One Shots: Transformations
Guild Wars 2 and One Shots is a pairing as old as time immemorial. Thus, it's great to bring this good-looking MMO back into...
The Game Archaeologist: Shadowbane
Way back when I used to haunt the corridors of Gamestop and had yet to shun the place due to its stinky evil, I remember...
Here’s what John Smedley’s been up to lately
What has former SOE and Daybreak head honcho John Smedley been doing since his departure from the latter? Well, putting together a development team,...
The Stream Team: Get your EverQuest and EverQuest II beta keys!
Have you wanted to get into EverQuest and/or EverQuest II's expansion betas but haven't preordered the necessary expansion to do so? Then today is...
Ask Mo: The absurd advantages of MMO guilds
A Massively OP reader named Ohnix recently sent us a question just perfect for Ask Mo. Let's debate guilds!
I play EverQuest II quite a...
The MOP Up: KingsIsle’s new game (November 8th, 2015)
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...
