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EverQuest II’s producer letter lays out plans for the game’s next major...
Here comes the testing phase for EverQuest II’s upcoming Myths and Monoliths patch some time this month; the game’s latest producer letter promises that testing for game update 120 will start this...
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Working As Intended: MMOs that wish they were Star Wars Galaxies
“My friends and I would skin someone alive for an SWG 2,” an old Star Wars Galaxies player recently wrote on Reddit, and that sentiment is… gruesome, yes, but also widely shared by gamers who remember...
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EverQuest completes server merge, plans beta for 29th expansion in October
Hot on the heels of EverQuest II’s producer letter, Darkpaw Head of Studio Jenn Chan is back with one for EverQuest II’s elder sibling. Chan recaps the 2022 roadmap for Original Flavor EverQuest,...
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EverQuest II opens up Myths and Monoliths update on the test server for players
Remember when it felt like every single tabletop roleplaying game had a name with an ampersand? You had Dungeons & Dragons, but also Chivalry & Sorcery, Tunnels & Trolls, a few others…...
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Massively Overthinking: Is old-school MMO dungeon-camping ever coming back?
A while ago on the MOP Podcast, Justin and I randomly wound up on the topic of camping in MMOs – not pitching a tent and peeing behind a tree but the rather old-school MMO idea of taking your group to...
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EverQuest II’s Myths and Monoliths is live with the Fabled Veeshan’s Peak raid
The Myths and Monoliths patch has finally arrived to EverQuest II’s live servers as of yesterday afternoon, bringing with it the fabled versions of the Veeshan’s Peak raid and Kurn’s Tower, new...
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EverQuest II’s Oceansfull Festival returns with a new dungeon as the Summer...
The summer season of EverQuest II is almost over as the Summer Jubilee that started with Tinkerfest in June is now ending with the Oceanfall Festival’s return this month, bringing with it some...
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Global Chat: When you can’t ignore the MMO meta
As we kick off another column on recent MMO blog essays, Galactic Antics uses a recent situation in Star Wars: The Old Republic as an example of how metas can bite you in the butt. “It’s the sort of...
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Perfect Ten: My memories from the 2004 World of Warcraft launch
Back in November of 2004, I was a wide-eyed 28-year-old bachelor who had just met his future wife and was generally leery about MMOs to date. Now I’m a grizzled [AGE REDACTED] journalist, father of...
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EG7 Q2 2022: Daybreak’s Jason Epstein is now chairman of the board
Remember a year ago when the Enad Global 7 board ousted CEO and co-founder Robin Flodin and replaced him – temporarily and in an “acting” capacity – with Daybreak’s Ji Ham? The board even bought Flodin...
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Vague Patch Notes: Novelty is a contradiction in an MMORPG genre that...
The newest member of the Big Five in the MMO space released in the west back in 2015, which was seven years ago now. The oldest one released in 2004, which means that it’ll be old enough to vote this...
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The MOP Up: Witness the creation of a Dauntless behemoth
Dauntless shared a neat video of a collaboration between its players and artists: “Back in April, many of you joined us for a community drawing stream. With the creative ideas and feedback pouring in...
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EverQuest II kicks off Secrets of the Sands, the prelude to its unnamed...
While the title of EverQuest II’s upcoming 2022 expansion is still under wraps, players can start heading it its direction thanks to a new prelude event that began this week. The prelude, which is...
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EverQuest II’s Renewal of Ro expansion hints at a return to Takish-Hiz
It’s been a little bit weird to have to keep talking about EverQuest II’s very much in production expansion and its very much live prequel quest track without knowing the expansion’s name, but Daybreak...
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EverQuest opens preorders for December’s Renewal of Ro, EverQuest announces...
Mainstream gamers might be out of the loop, but MMORPG players know that the EverQuest franchise kicks into high gear every autumn, and we’re in the thick of it now. For starters, EverQuest II opened...
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Massively OP Podcast Episode 392: Don’t rollback my heart
Justin and Bree discuss New World's fresh start and Brimstone Sands, expansions for EverQuest and EverQuest II, the sale of My.Games, Final Fantasy XIV, Mythos, Echo of Soul, Shroud of the Avatar's...
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EverQuest II resurrects the Nights of the Dead event for the Halloween season
While some fans of EverQuest II might be understandably more interested in the month of December, this month does have some fun to be had in the form of the returning Nights of the Dead Halloween...
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Global Chat: Landing boots on WoW Classic’s Wrath shores
With WoW Classic’s Wrath expansion officially out, plenty of veterans of the Northrend Wars of ’08 returned for another tour of duty. Among these is the Ancient Gaming Noob, who joined likeminded souls...
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Perfect Ten: 10 MMO haunted houses to explore – if you dare….
Happy Halloween! Or if you prefer, Happy Scare-Related Holidays featuring the Stylings of Ed Casbar and His Electric Teeth. It’d be the best of holidays if most people didn’t have a prejudice against a...
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One Shots: Let us tell you a fairy tale…
Just the other day I was musing about how EverQuest II feels like a forgotten MMO — and I guess I was heard because I’ve seen quite a few people pop out of the woodwork to talk about playing the game...
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