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EverQuest Legends dev says 'I'm sure we would' add new classes, races 'in the longer-term vision of the game'

Old game, new timeline.

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EverQuest Legends is the only MMO that could hook me in 2026

Admittedly, I am a very specific type of guy.

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Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies vet tells me the theme park 'assembly line' MMO just isn't viable anymore, especially as dev costs spike: 'We hit the wall'

"The MMO audience feels underserved and overmonetized, that's how they feel about what's going on."

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I was worried EverQuest Legends making me too OP would ruin the magic of the classic MMO, but crushing hordes of frogloks is incredibly satisfying

Friction is great, but triple-classing isn't so bad, either.

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EverQuest is the next legacy MMO to get the "classic" treatment after WoW Classic and Old School RuneScape, but with a genius twist: it knows all of us olds don't have time for MMOs anymore

EverQuest Legends is "for people who don't have time to play EverQuest"

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EverQuest Legends is classic EverQuest, but for people who don't have time for MMOs anymore

The first new PC EverQuest game in a long time brings the nostalgia and a whole lot more player power.

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World of Warcraft would've been a first-person MMO in the EverQuest-inspired world of Overwatch's Jeff Kaplan: "I argued a lot for that"

Blizzard's MMO could've looked quite different

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WoW's questing system was inspired by a playtest that didn't work out as planned, because the testers didn't play MMOs and had no idea what they were supposed to do: 'I ran out of quests right away!'

"And we're like, wait a second, you just expect to have quests keep going?"

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WoW's Horde/Alliance split was 'really controversial', says Jeff Kaplan, to the point where it was only locked in 9-12 months before the game's launch

"He liked the fact you were instantly on a team."

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Court Rejects Sealing and TRO in EverQuest Lawsuit

From Daybreak Game Co. v. Takahashi, decided Wednesday by Judge Cynthia Bashant (S.D. Cal.): Per the Complaint, Daybreak owns the… The post Court Rejects Sealing and TRO in EverQuest Lawsuit appeared first on Reason.com.

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EverQuest 2 to bring back the 'absolute heyday' of PvP with classic server

Nagafen's back, baby.

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WoW veteran says the MMO's devs had to make "ten times the amount of quests" as originally planned to sate playtesters, and now the game has 38,000 of them

"The answer, of course, was to simply add more."

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World of Warcraft got its iconic MMO quest markers thanks to Metal Gear Solid

20 years later, WoW is still going strong

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World of Warcraft might not have invented the wheel, but it certainly made it popular—and 20 years on, the MMO titan has fundamentally changed gaming's DNA

Love it or hate it, it's probably what we deserve.

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‘A phenomenon’: how World of Warcraft smashed out of geekdom and conquered gaming

The ultimate multi-player has survived ‘frat boy’ slurs, a ropey film, one mega lawsuit, legions of change-averse puritans – and Mr T in a Night Elf Mohawk. As it hits 20, join us on a trip to the green hills of Stranglehorn

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Poker star Justin Bonomo, who's won over $60 million, made his first bankroll by selling his EverQuest druid: 'It was over AIM and he offered me $500'

One of the most successful poker tournament players ever really had to grind for his first wins.

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Taking matters into her own hands: How a fan became a dev and went on a quest for missing EverQuest 2 furniture

How EverQuest 2's 'Denmom' took on the "Unobtainable List."

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'Just the right kind of weird:' How the secret weapon of a /pizza command let EverQuest 2 slice into WoW and accidentally end up topping Pizza Hut on Google

The MMO developers thought up /pizza as a joke, but it became a viral sensation just when they needed it.

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EverQuest is kicking off a year-long anniversary celebration with a packed calendar of new events, quests, and giveaways, culminating in 2 new expansions

Here's an exclusive look at the 2024 roadmaps for EverQuest & EverQuest 2, as the MMOs celebrate their 25th and 20th anniversaries.

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EverQuest 2's former creative director has a bleak vision of gaming's future

"The return on investment for innovation on game mechanics is terrible."

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The original Diablo 3 was canceled, and it looked surprisingly similar to Diablo 4

Blizzard North's vision for Diablo 3 looks oddly familiar, but it wasn't meant to be.

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