Everquest

Everquest Going Free-to-Play

Posted on Jan 31, 2012

Following in the footsteps of Everquest 2, the original online gaming crack, Everquest will be going free-to-play this March, only 2 months from now. Everquest will give players many options to choose from including a premium subscription, Silver and Free membership levels, item unlockers and more.  New players will also receive a Welcome Pack containing items to [...]

Everquest Inducted to GDC Online Hall of Fame

Posted on Oct 12, 2011

Everquest, game that brought the MMORPG genre out from the far corners of the internet into the forfront, has been inducted into the Game Developers Choice Online Awards Hall of Fame joining Ultima Online as only the second inductee. EverQuest (EQ) is being recognized for its contribution to the long-term advancement of online gaming, pioneering major shifts [...]

MMOries of a Gamer: EverQuest.

Posted on Sep 22, 2010

Welcome to MMOCrunch’s new weekly column: MMOries of a Gamer. Here, we’ll tell you our memories and experiences with many MMOs, sharing stories and sometimes funny events lived in our favourite virtual worlds. Through countless hours of playing our games, we all treasured many stories and good moments. This is the place to tell your [...]

Everquest House of Thule Expansion

Posted on Sep 03, 2010

In the last Las Vegas Fan Faire event, SOE announced the 17th expansion for Everquest. The legend of the game that changed massive multiplayer online gaming forever, continues with EverQuest: House of Thule, set to launch next October 12. Let’s see some of the new features we’ll have in the new HOT expansion. At last!! [...]

New “Hardcore” EverQuest Dungeons Released

Posted on Aug 22, 2010

On August 18th, Sony Online Entertainment and EverQuest released information on the “buffed-up” editions of popular dungeons becoming available in game. From August 18th to September 6th, Cazic and Blackburrow are accepting groups and from September 1 through September 13, Lower Guk and Unrest will be open as well. SOE has said that the new [...]

Rejoice For The Coming of EverQuest’s 17th Expansion

Posted on Aug 11, 2010

Sony Online’s legendary MMO, EverQuest has a brand new expansion coming to store shelves in October, and we couldn’t be any more excited.  The new expansion is titled EverQuest: House of Thule.  This epic new addition to the EverQuest universe will add an entirely new fantasyland zone for the player to explore and enjoy.  This [...]

SOE FanFaire Attendees

Posted on Jun 28, 2010

SOE recently published a list of the folks from SOE who will be attending SOE FanFaire from August 5th to the 8th in Las Vegas.  The lists includes what looks like almost all of the community managers across the various games, as well as developers on most of their existing titles, although it doesn’t appear [...]

EverQuest and Vanguard Server Merges

Posted on Jun 18, 2010

EverQuest and Vanguard server merges are coming, with both games choosing to operate fewer independent servers as their playerbases shrink. While both EverQuest and Vanguard announced some time ago that they would be conducting server merges, it is only recently that players are finding out the specifics of how these will be carried out – [...]

EverQuest Server Merges

Posted on May 24, 2010

Sony Online Entertainment has announced a series of server merges for their MMORPG EverQuest that will result in the number of servers being cut in half. These server merges will start on June 22nd and end on July 6th, leaving ten servers in place of the original twenty. It seems the population of the game [...]

Putting Risk Back Into the Themepark — Drop Chance

Posted on Feb 17, 2010

Last month, I posted a bit about the concept of risk in MMOs and the conclusion I came up with is that most modern themepark MMOs have sanitized their gameplay such that risk is no longer a factor. I feel that risk is an intriguing design element and that without it, our MMOs are less [...]