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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Ex-Daybreak President John Smedley starts his own company
The MMO industry trembled last month as John Smedley left his long-held post as president of Daybreak Game Company (and before that, SOE), but now...
The Daily Grind: How do you play Elder Scrolls Online?
I reinstalled Elder Scrolls Online this week, and I don't know why. I mean, I like the game well enough, and did from day...
EverQuesting: (Almost) everything we know about EverQuest Next
In a perfect world, we'd have the mana of EverQuest Next news raining down from the sky, enough to satiate our hunger for information...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever run an event in an MMO?
Long ago, I used to live for player-run MMO events. In old-school MMORPGs, people judged a guild's quality as much on what it did for...
EverQuest Next challenges players to design buildings for Halas
One of the cooler parts of the EverQuest Next development process is that it's not happening behind closed doors; players have already had the...
Massively Overthinking: Whither went the classic PvE MMORPG?
Today's Massively Overthinking question was sent via e-pigeon from Kickstarter donor Apollymi. No e-pigeons were hurt in the writing of this article.
"Have you heard...
The Daily Grind: How much money have you spent on MMOs this month?
I bought EverQuest II's latest expansion yesterday, and along with my SOE Statio... er, my Daybreak All-Access pass and my Star Wars: The Old...
Pantheon’s Brad McQuaid on mass market MMOs, Smed’s resignation
Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen's Brad McQuaid has a word or two (thousand) to say about the ongoing debate as to what constitutes an...
Leaderboard: How many MMOs have you played this week?
I guess my MMO habit is back in full swing, because after a few weeks of vacationing in the realm of single-player titles (and...
The Stream Team: Stroll the streets of EverQuest Next’s Qeynos in Landmark
One key selling point of Landmark was how it gives players the chance to be a part of creating EverQuest Next. Through the...
Perfect Ten: MMO fan fashion scenes
For some of us, having the best gear -- stat-wise -- isn't a driving force for playing MMOs. Now, the best-looking gear? That's a...
John Smedley relinquishes his post at Daybreak
VentureBeat is reporting that John Smedley has stepped down as President of Daybreak Game Company, the studio behind multiple MMOs, including the entire EverQuest...
EverQuest progression server transfers coming soon
The classic EverQuest progression servers have proven pretty popular, enough that the two servers are going to deviate from one another in terms of...
The Soapbox: An ode to MMO positivity
I had a strange thought the other day, at least as regards the MMO genre. I'm kinda having fun here. I know, it surprised...
EverQuesting: Holly Longdale was right about casuals and raiding
How's the weather over in EverQuest? Well there was a doozy of a storm that rolled through recently! I am going to admit that...
The Game Archaeologist: The Sims Online
The Sims Online was one of the odder entrants into the MMO genre, an online iteration of an immensely popular game franchise that promised...
Earn new EverQuest and Landmark rewards with the EQ Worlds app
It might be time to dig out that mostly-forgotten EverQuest Worlds mobile app, especially if you've been playing one of Daybreak's fantasy titles. The...
EverQuest II begins testing its new progression servers
Will EverQuest II's new progression servers prove to be the popular gathering spot that EverQuest's was earlier this summer? We will soon find out,...
One Shots: Impossible architecture
When you construct your buildings out of pixels and polygons, you don't necessarily have to worry about what's physically possible and what isn't, just...
Massively Overthinking: On the doom of server-wide MMO communities
This week's Massively Overthinking question comes from KS donor Morreion, who asks,
Do you think that MMO server-wide communities will ever make a comeback?
I suppose...
