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EverQuest Next

EverQuest Next was an anticipated massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed by Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) as the direct successor to the long-running EverQuest franchise, featuring innovative mechanics such as a player-driven, destructible world and procedural generation to create a highly dynamic environment.^[1] Announced at SOE Live on August 2, 2013, the game aimed to revolutionize the MMORPG genre by emphasizing emergent gameplay, where players could build, destroy, and permanently alter the shared world of Norrath without traditional quest structures or fixed classes.^[2] Key features included a modular character progression system allowing skill combinations, dynamic NPC behaviors driven by AI that adapted to player actions, and an underground realm explorable through digging or magic.^[1] It was closely tied to EverQuest Next: Landmark, a companion title that entered early access in 2014 and officially launched in 2016 as a free-to-play sandbox for user-generated content that would influence the main game's world-building tools.^[3] Following SOE's acquisition by Columbus Nova and rebranding to Daybreak Game Company in early 2015, development continued but faced delays and limited updates.^[4] On March 11, 2016, Daybreak President Russell Shanks announced the project's cancellation, citing that despite extensive review, the team could not achieve a version that met their vision of being "truly fun" for players.^[4] The decision came after nearly three years of development and significant investment, including pre-order packs for Landmark that reportedly generated over $10 million.^[5] Landmark itself entered early access but was shut down on February 21, 2017, marking the end of the EverQuest Next initiative.^[5] Although canceled, the project's concepts influenced later discussions around potential future EverQuest titles, including the 2023 announcement of EverQuest 3, which entered development in 2025 with a target release in 2028, though no direct successor has been released as of November 2025.^[6]^[7]

Overview

Concept and Setting

EverQuest Next was conceived as a free-to-play, sandbox-style massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) set in the established fantasy world of Norrath, prioritizing player-driven storytelling and emergent gameplay over conventional linear quests. Unlike traditional MMORPGs focused on predefined narratives, the game sought to create a living, responsive environment where collective player actions could permanently alter landscapes, societies, and events, fostering unpredictable adventures and community-led epics. This approach aimed to revive the exploratory spirit of early MMORPGs while leveraging modern technology for seamless, large-scale interactions in a shared, non-instanced world.^[1]^[8] The game's lore drew heavily from the expansive EverQuest universe, incorporating familiar elements such as iconic races—including elves, dwarves, and ogres—alongside reimagined classes that allowed for flexible multiclassing with over 40 archetypal options to mix and match abilities. It introduced a fresh narrative arc exploring ancient evils long buried beneath Norrath's surface, unearthed through procedural underground excavations spanning 10,000 years of archaeological history, where players would actively shape the world's evolving timeline through their discoveries and conflicts. This integration preserved the mythic depth of Norrath's pantheons, factions, and historical cataclysms while empowering players to influence outcomes, such as the rise or fall of civilizations in response to resurgent threats like dark magics and forgotten horrors.^[9]^[1]^[10] Intended primarily for PC with early development plans including PlayStation 4 support to broaden accessibility, EverQuest Next targeted veteran EverQuest players nostalgic for its foundational sandbox elements as well as newcomers seeking immersive, dynamic MMORPG experiences free from rigid instancing. The proprietary Forgelight engine served as the technical backbone, facilitating procedural world generation and real-time destruction to realize these ambitious features.^[11]^[12]

Development Team and Publisher

EverQuest Next was initially developed by Sony Online Entertainment (SOE), with development beginning in 2009 under the leadership of SOE president John Smedley and franchise director Dave "Smokejumper" Georgeson.^[3]^[13]^[14] The project drew heavily on veteran developers from the original EverQuest team, including figures like Terry Michaels, senior producer, who contributed to innovating within the established Norrath universe.^[15] SOE assembled a large development team focused on pushing boundaries in MMO design.^[16] In February 2015, amid corporate restructuring, Sony sold its MMO division to investment firm Columbus Nova, leading to SOE's rebranding as Daybreak Game Company.^[17]^[18] Daybreak assumed full responsibility for the project's continuation, maintaining the core team and vision established under SOE. The transition did not immediately alter the development trajectory, though it marked a shift toward greater independence for the studio.^[19] As publisher, Daybreak planned to distribute EverQuest Next on a free-to-play model, emphasizing accessibility while incorporating microtransactions primarily for cosmetic items, convenience features, and optional enhancements.^[20]^[21] This approach aligned with Daybreak's broader strategy for its MMO portfolio, aiming to sustain long-term engagement without paywalls for core content. The game was publicly revealed at SOE Live 2013, highlighting the team's commitment to player-driven innovation.^[14]

Gameplay

Core Mechanics

Character creation in EverQuest Next emphasized extensive customization, allowing players to select from over a dozen races such as humans, Kerrans, dark elves, ogres, dwarves, elves, and Halasians, with plans for additional races. ^[22] Players could choose from over 40 classes at launch, including warrior, rogue, wizard, cleric, elementalist, tempest, necromancer, beast lord, and blademaster, without race-based restrictions. ^[9] ^[22] The system supported hybrid builds through multiclassing, enabling players to master multiple classes and combine abilities—for instance, a warrior-mage hybrid wielding melee weapons alongside spellcasting skills—without rigid roles like tank, healer, or DPS. ^[23] ^[24] Progression operated on a skill-based system without traditional levels or a fixed cap, focusing instead on accomplishments known as deeds—tasks achieved through in-game actions and exploration, such as defeating specific enemies or completing objectives. ^[24] These deeds unlocked new abilities, equipment tiers, and class advancements, rewarding diverse playstyles over repetitive grinding; for example, developer Darrin McPherson noted, "It's not grinding XP. It's not completing a thousand quests." ^[24] Repeated actions yielded diminishing returns to encourage variety, ensuring long-term engagement without vertical power scaling. ^[24] This approach integrated briefly with dynamic world changes, where player actions could influence broader environmental shifts. ^[24] Basic activities revolved around exploration in a seamless open world, where players gathered resources like copper or mithril from the environment to fuel crafting. ^[24] Crafting involved tiered production of items, tools, and gear without excessive repetition, emphasizing strategic resource use and innovation. ^[24] Social hubs, known as landmarks, served as protected teleportation points and marketplaces for player interactions and trading, fostering community in the persistent world. ^[25] The economy was entirely player-driven, with markets operating on supply and demand without developer-imposed prices, allowing players to set values for crafted goods, resources, and services through trading at social hubs. ^[26] This system extended to broader player impacts, where collective actions could alter resource availability and economic opportunities across Norrath. ^[26]

World Dynamics and Player Impact

EverQuest Next was designed with a dynamic world system that allowed landscapes to evolve over time through procedural generation and player actions, creating a living environment on the continent of Norrath. Procedurally generated elements enabled natural shifts, such as forests expanding or eroding based on environmental interactions, while voxel-based technology supported destructible terrain that could be altered and would heal gradually, maintaining balance without developer intervention. This approach aimed to foster a sense of ongoing change, where biomes like Lavastorm experienced real-time events such as lava storms, contributing to a vertically expansive world extending from surface levels to deep underground regions.^[27]^[28]^[29] Player impact was central to the game's vision, empowering guilds and individuals to claim land, construct structures, and initiate large-scale events that resulted in permanent, server-wide consequences. Through "Rally Calls," collaborative projects spanning months, players could build townships, erect walls, or trigger ecosystem alterations, such as orc raids escalating into full wars if unaddressed, with emergent AI ensuring NPCs adapted behaviors like relocating to less populated areas. These changes persisted across the shared world, preventing resets and allowing player-driven narratives to shape global events, such as the rise or fall of cities based on collective efforts. Integration with building tools from the companion game Landmark further enabled custom structures to influence world dynamics.^[27]^[28]^[29] The non-instanced design ensured all content unfolded in a single, persistent open world without zoning or loading screens, promoting seamless exploration across massive continents featuring diverse biomes like the swampy Feerrott and volcanic Ashfang. This architecture supported thousands of simultaneous players per server, enabling large-scale interactions such as sieges or territorial disputes that rippled through the environment and affected all participants. The scale emphasized exploration and consequence, with no level restrictions gating areas, allowing the world to feel alive and responsive to collective player influence.^[27]^[28]

Combat and Progression Systems

EverQuest Next featured a third-person action combat system designed to emphasize player skill and positioning over traditional tab-targeting mechanics.^[1] Combat involved directional attacks, where weapon choice influenced attack patterns—such as sweeping area-of-effect strikes with halberds or focused single-target damage with longswords—allowing players to adapt to enemy movements in real time.^[1] Dodging and evasion were integral, supported by a parkour-inspired movement system that included tumbles, vaults, and double jumps to avoid incoming threats dynamically.^[1] This system scaled seamlessly from solo encounters to group and raid battles, promoting tactical awareness without reliance on auto-attacks.^[1] The ability system revolved around fluid, mixable class powers rather than rigid archetypes. Players began with one of eight starting classes and unlocked over 40 total through progression, selecting up to eight abilities (four from weapons and four from classes) for their hotbar to create personalized combos.^[28] For instance, combining a wizard's teleportation spell with a rogue's stealth enabled emergent tactics like flanking or surprise assaults, prioritizing tactical positioning to exploit enemy weaknesses over static ability rotations.^[1] This multi-class approach encouraged experimentation, as abilities from different classes could synergize in ways that rewarded creative playstyles during combat.^[28] Progression departed from level-based grinding in favor of a horizontal tier system driven by the Deed mechanism. Heroic deeds—such as slaying rare beasts, constructing significant builds, or completing challenging quests—unlocked new tiers, granting access to additional classes, weapons, and perks without repetitive farming.^[28] This design aimed to reward unique achievements and player agency, ensuring advancement felt meaningful and tied to personal accomplishments rather than arbitrary experience thresholds.^[28] Group dynamics emphasized emergent alliances over enforced roles, supporting large-scale PvP and PvE events without the holy trinity of tank, healer, and DPS.^[30] Flexible compositions allowed players to succeed through coordinated tactics, as there was no dedicated threat mechanic to lock enemies onto a single tank; instead, groups managed foes via positioning and ability synergy.^[30] This fostered spontaneous cooperation in dynamic battles, where any class build could contribute effectively based on context.^[30]

Development History

Announcement and Early Vision

EverQuest Next was unveiled on August 2, 2013, at SOE Live in Las Vegas, where Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) presented a cinematic trailer showcasing a rebooted version of the iconic Norrath setting, blending familiar elements from the original EverQuest with innovative mechanics centered on player agency.^[2]^[31] The trailer and subsequent keynote emphasized the tagline "player choice matters," highlighting how decisions would shape the world in meaningful, persistent ways, marking a departure from traditional quest-driven narratives toward emergent storytelling.^[32] John Smedley, SOE's president at the time, led the reveal, generating high anticipation among attendees and online viewers through a live stream on Twitch.^[33] The early vision for EverQuest Next positioned it as the next evolution of the MMORPG genre, aiming to recapture the sandbox freedom of the original EverQuest while incorporating modern design principles for infinite player-driven possibilities.^[2] Developers promised a living, persistent world where players would actively write the story through their actions, without rigid developer-imposed plots, and confirmed the game would launch as free-to-play with no mandatory subscription model, aligning with SOE's broader shift toward accessible online gaming.^[20] Initial features teased during the presentation included a modular class system allowing multi-classing for customizable playstyles, dynamic AI enabling NPCs and mobs to adapt intelligently to player behaviors and environmental changes, and deep integration with fan-created content via the companion toolset EverQuest Next: Landmark.^[2]^[27] The announcement sparked immediate excitement within the longstanding EverQuest community, with beta sign-ups opening shortly thereafter and drawing widespread interest from veterans eager for a return to Norrath's roots. Media coverage and fan forums buzzed about the ambitious scope, positioning EverQuest Next as a potential revitalization of the franchise and the MMORPG landscape.^[32]

Technological Innovations

The Forgelight engine, developed in-house by Sony Online Entertainment (later Daybreak Game Company), served as the foundational technology for EverQuest Next, enabling a seamless, persistent world without traditional loading screens between zones. This custom engine, originally powering titles like PlanetSide 2, was heavily modified to integrate voxel-based systems, supporting large-scale multiplayer interactions across expansive environments.^[28]^[34] A key innovation was the incorporation of VoxelFarm middleware for real-time procedural generation and modular asset creation, allowing the game's terrain and structures to be dynamically constructed, modified, or destroyed by players. This voxel technology facilitated permanent environmental changes, such as carving out mountains or erecting buildings, with the engine handling the simulation of these alterations across the shared world. Procedural elements extended to underground layers and ecosystems, ensuring varied landscapes without predefined boundaries.^[35]^[36] Dynamic lighting and physics systems within Forgelight contributed to emergent gameplay events, where player actions triggered realistic environmental responses, such as collapsing structures or shifting terrain that influenced visibility and movement. Complementing this, the Storybricks AI framework drove adaptive ecosystems, enabling non-player characters and creatures to respond intelligently to disruptions—like relocating settlements or forming alliances based on player interventions—fostering unpredictable world evolution.^[28]^[35] Player-accessible development tools, integrated directly into the game and shared with the companion title EverQuest Next: Landmark, empowered users to create quests, items, and custom content using intuitive in-game editors based on the same voxel and modular systems. These tools aimed to promote cross-project synergy, allowing community-generated assets to influence the core EverQuest Next experience. The overall technical architecture targeted high scalability to accommodate thousands of players per server zone, leveraging the engine's modular design for potential cloud-based expansions.^[36]^[37]

Evolution and Setbacks

In 2014, development of EverQuest Next progressed through the alpha testing phase of its companion title, EverQuest Next: Landmark, which entered alpha on January 31 and served as an integrated platform for player-driven world-building directly tied to the main game's core mechanics.^[38] This integration highlighted building as a foundational element of EverQuest Next, allowing players to create and contribute persistent structures to Norrath's dynamic landscape using tools that would carry over into the full release.^[39] Concurrently, Sony Online Entertainment confirmed the game for the PlayStation 4 platform, maintaining its free-to-play model with microtransactions and optional purchases, consistent with the studio's evolving monetization strategy for its MMO portfolio.^[40] As feedback from early testers and community discussions emerged, the development team adjusted the game's scope to broaden its appeal. Initially envisioned as a strictly multiplayer experience emphasizing group dynamics and emergent storytelling, EverQuest Next incorporated greater solo viability by refining combat and progression systems to allow meaningful advancement without mandatory grouping, responding to concerns about accessibility in a genre dominated by social play.^[23] Additionally, dedicated PvP zones were added to the world design, enabling opt-in competitive play while preserving safe areas for cooperative or solo activities, a direct outcome of player input during SOE Live 2014 panels and forums.^[41] The year 2015 brought significant setbacks that disrupted momentum. In February, key creative lead Dave "Smokejumper" Georgeson, who had directed the EverQuest franchise including Next, was laid off amid broader staff reductions at the studio.^[42] This departure, alongside the end of collaborations like the AI-focused Storybricks project, strained the team's vision for procedural content generation.^[38] Compounding these losses, Sony sold Sony Online Entertainment to investment firm Columbus Nova in the same month, rebranding it as Daybreak Game Company and prompting resource reallocations that shifted priorities away from ambitious features toward more immediate titles like H1Z1.^[43] Despite these challenges, late 2015 saw internal closed beta testing, including a major playtest in September that demonstrated refined, action-oriented combat mechanics capable of supporting both solo and group encounters.^[44] These sessions validated aspects of the gameplay but highlighted scaling issues with the expansive world, contributing to further delays in the full launch timeline as the team iterated on stability. The Forgelight engine's ongoing optimizations during this period facilitated these adjustments but also exposed performance hurdles in integrating player-created content at scale.^[45]

Cancellation and Aftermath

Discontinuation Announcement

On March 11, 2016, Daybreak Game Company announced the discontinuation of EverQuest Next development through a community letter from company president Russell Shanks posted on the official website.^[4] The statement followed an internal review of the project's progress, concluding that the game would not meet the high expectations set for the Norrath universe despite significant technological advancements.^[46] In the letter, Shanks highlighted the EverQuest franchise's 20-year legacy as a "labor of love" that had shaped the company's culture and encouraged bold innovations, but emphasized shifting priorities toward maintaining and updating existing live service titles such as EverQuest and EverQuest II.^[4] He noted that the decision allowed Daybreak to focus resources on delivering fun and sustainable experiences for current players, with ongoing expansions planned for the legacy games, including the 17th anniversary update for EverQuest shortly after the announcement.^[46] Concurrently, executive producer Holly Longdale issued a blog post on the Landmark forums detailing the spinoff's path forward, confirming that purchases tied to EverQuest Next, such as founder's packs, would not be refunded as Landmark proceeded to a full launch in spring 2016.^[47] Alpha testers, who had participated in closed alpha tests since 2015, were directly informed of the cancellation via community channels, with all test data archived by Daybreak for internal reference but deemed non-reusable for future projects.^[48] This announcement ended a period of radio silence that had begun after the initial closed alpha tests in early 2015, occurring amid broader corporate transitions following the 2015 sale of Sony Online Entertainment to form Daybreak.^[4]

Reasons for Cancellation

The overambitious scope of EverQuest Next, envisioned as a massively destructible sandbox MMO with procedural world generation and player-driven permanence, presented formidable development challenges using the proprietary Forgelight engine. The engine, originally designed for titles like Planetside 2, struggled with the demands of voxel-based terrain manipulation, where player alterations required real-time updates to pathfinding, physics, and rendering across vast scales, overwhelming available computational resources. EverQuest franchise producer Holly Longdale highlighted this in a 2019 interview, stating, "There was not enough computational power. If people are digging holes, you have to update pathing for the entire world," underscoring how these technical limitations caused protracted delays and escalated costs, with early development alone prompting a $62 million financial writeoff by Sony Online Entertainment in 2013 for EverQuest Next and related projects.^[49]^[5] Shifts in the broader gaming market further strained the project, as the surge in popularity of battle royale and MOBA genres from 2015 onward diverted publisher investments away from high-risk, high-cost MMOs toward more accessible multiplayer formats with quicker monetization paths. Following Daybreak's acquisition by investment firm Columbus Nova in 2015, the studio reprioritized revenue-generating legacy MMOs like EverQuest and Planetside 2, which offered stable subscription and microtransaction income, over speculative new ventures like EverQuest Next.^[4]^[43] Internal organizational upheaval compounded these external pressures, including the 2015 rebranding from Sony Online Entertainment to Daybreak Game Company, which redirected resources amid layoffs and executive transitions. The departure of longtime president John Smedley in mid-2015, after nearly two decades leading the studio's MMO efforts, marked a significant loss of institutional knowledge and vision for the project. Investor expectations from Colony Capital, the private equity firm behind Columbus Nova, emphasized immediate profitability, leading to scrutiny of long-development-cycle initiatives like EverQuest Next.^[50]^[17] Unofficial insights from developer interviews revealed deeper engine instability, with reports indicating that fulfilling the "infinite world" vision—free of instanced zones and reliant on emergent player impact—would demand several additional years of refinement beyond the team's capacity. Daybreak president Russell Shanks echoed this in a 2016 community letter, noting the game "just wasn't fun" and failed to align with franchise standards after extensive review. Beta feedback through the companion title Landmark influenced iterative scope changes, such as refining building tools, but ultimately could not resolve the core technical and viability gaps.^[49]^[4] Following the cancellation of EverQuest Next, its companion project Landmark—originally envisioned as a content creation tool for the main game's player-driven world—transitioned to a standalone voxel-based MMO and received its full release in June 2016. Despite this shift, the game struggled to maintain a viable audience, with concurrent player counts on Steam plummeting from an all-time peak of 2,134 in 2014 to as low as 14 players in the 24 hours prior to major updates in late 2016. Daybreak Game Company announced the shutdown on January 5, 2017, citing unsustainable operations, and ceased all new sales and marketplace listings effective immediately. Servers, forums, and social channels closed permanently on February 21, 2017, at 4:00 PM Pacific Time, marking the end of the service without any phased reductions or extended support periods.^[51]^[52]^[53] Player-created content, central to Landmark's appeal as a building sandbox, became inaccessible after the shutdown, with no provisions for offline access or data export provided to users. The underlying Forgelight engine, which enabled Landmark's dynamic environments and was shared with other Daybreak titles, saw continued integration in projects like H1Z1 (launched in early access in 2015), but specific tools or assets from Landmark were not open-sourced or repurposed for public use. Some technological advancements from the EverQuest Next project were later integrated into updates for existing EverQuest titles. Daybreak's general policy explicitly stated that all game purchases, expansions, and virtual currency were non-refundable, applying to Landmark founder packs and bundles that had promised early access to EverQuest Next features. Alpha testers and buyers of premium packs received no compensation following the project's wind-down, despite community requests for reimbursements.^[54]^[55]^[56]^[49]

Legacy

Reception and Community Response

Upon its announcement at SOE Live in 2013, EverQuest Next generated significant excitement within the MMORPG community, particularly among longstanding fans of the EverQuest franchise, who anticipated a revolutionary sandbox experience with emergent gameplay and player-driven content.^[38] The reveal fueled discussions on forums and social media about its potential to redefine the genre. Early previews from outlets like Polygon highlighted the game's innovative concepts, such as destructible environments allowing players to "blow up anything, anytime, anywhere" and non-level-based progression with multi-classing professions, positioning it as a bold departure from traditional MMORPG structures.^[57] During the alpha and beta phases of its companion title, EverQuest Next Landmark, starting in early 2014, community feedback was mixed; players praised the creative building tools and voxel technology for enabling impressive user-generated structures, but criticized technical issues including bugs, performance problems, and the high cost of early access packs.^[38] Combat demonstrations at SOE Live 2014 received positive initial reactions for their action-oriented, third-person mechanics, though some testers noted concerns over fluidity and balance in later forum discussions.^[23] Critics and previewers echoed this enthusiasm by lauding the potential for a living, player-forged world despite the absence of a full release. The 2016 cancellation announcement elicited widespread disappointment and frustration from the community, described as the "biggest MMO story" and "biggest disappointment" of the year, with fans expressing anger over perceived mismanagement by Daybreak Game Company and the loss of years of built-up hype.^[38] Forums and Reddit threads exploded with reactions, including sentiments like "EQN was the last time I was really excited about a new MMORPG," reflecting a sense of betrayal among players who had invested time and money into Landmark.^[58] In the years following, particularly into the 2020s, nostalgia persisted in online discussions, with community members lamenting the untapped potential and occasionally referencing leaked assets in fan analyses, though no major official revivals of EverQuest Next materialized.^[59] This response contributed to a broader erosion of trust in Daybreak, as players shifted focus to other titles while preserving the project's legacy through retrospective conversations.^[38]

Influence on the Franchise and Genre

Despite its cancellation, EverQuest Next exerted a notable influence on the EverQuest franchise through shared technology and conceptual carryover. The Forgelight engine, used for the project, powered other Daybreak titles including Planetside 2 and H1Z1, with advancements in dynamic environments and server architecture contributing to updates in those games. This integration helped bolster procedural generation and large-scale multiplayer features in Daybreak's ongoing MMORPGs, extending the franchise's technical foundation beyond traditional expansions. No direct sequel to EverQuest Next materialized, but its visionary elements resonated in subsequent projects by former team members. Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen, developed by Visionary Realms, incorporates sandbox exploration and challenging group dynamics reminiscent of EQN's proposed emergent gameplay. The studio was founded by Brad McQuaid, who served as a senior executive at Sony Online Entertainment during EQN's initial development phase after rejoining the company in 2013 and departed in 2014 to lead Visionary Realms; McQuaid passed away in 2019, but the studio has continued his vision, entering early access in December 2024 and receiving significant funding in November 2025.^[60]^[61]^[62]^[63]^[64] In the broader MMORPG genre, EverQuest Next's 2013 reveal highlighted innovative features like non-targeted action combat and extensive player housing, contributing to industry trends toward more fluid, skill-based mechanics over traditional tab-targeting systems.^[57]^[65] The project's emphasis on destructible worlds aligned with growing interest in procedural and modifiable environments in MMOs and other genres. Technologically, the Forgelight engine's capabilities for real-time world alteration left a legacy in server-side innovations, enabling scalable emergent events in Daybreak's ecosystem. Concepts of player-driven narratives and AI-influenced ecosystems from EQN aligned with broader shifts toward procedural generation emphasizing exploration over scripted content. Culturally, EverQuest Next fueled 2010s discourse on MMO evolution, challenging developers to prioritize sandbox freedom and community governance amid a shift from theme-park designs. This helped catalyze a revival of sandbox titles like Albion Online, which emphasized economic simulation and guild-driven politics in its 2017 full release, reflecting aspirations for a living, player-shaped world. Community mods have occasionally preserved EQN's asset prototypes for integration into legacy EverQuest servers.^[66]^[67]

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Perfect Ten: The interesting features EverQuest Next promised ...
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Norrathian Notebook: Building EverQuest Next in Landmark
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EverQuest Next confirmed for PS4, free-to-play MMO launching next ...
Jan 25, 2014 · As for EverQuest Next, SOE now exclusively deals in free-to-play games. We just don't know if a PS Plus subscription will be required to enjoy.
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Dave “SmokeJumper” Georgeson Laid Off by Daybreak Games
Feb 11, 2015 · Dave “SmokeJumper” Georgeson, Director of Development / Franchise Director for Everquest, EverQuest II, and EverQuest Next / Landmark has been laid off by ...Missing: Satchell | Show results with:Satchell
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Sony Online Entertainment Sold to Investment Firm Columbus Nova
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Russell Shanks on the Cancellation and Future of the EverQuest ...
Mar 11, 2016 · What ultimately made Daybreak decide to cease development? Russell Shanks: EverQuest Next was an ambitious project and in no way was this an ...
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Daybreak has canceled EverQuest Next, Landmark is launching 'this ...
Mar 11, 2016 · Daybreak has officially canceled EverQuest Next. President Russell Shanks just broke the news on the official site this afternoon.
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### Summary of EverQuest Next Cancellation
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John Smedley has left Daybreak Games to start new company
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EverQuest Next Cancelled, Landmark to Officially Launch This Spring
Mar 11, 2016 · Landmark will officially launch as a live game in Spring 2016 according to EverQuest, EverQuest II, and now Landmark Executive Producer Holly “Windstalker” ...
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Landmark Steam Charts (App 297810) - SteamDB
Steam player count for Landmark is currently 0 players live. Landmark had an all-time peak of 2134 concurrent players on 28 July 2014.
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Landmark, Daybreak Games' voxel building MMO, will close next ...
Jan 5, 2017 · Daybreak Games announced the news today on its official website, indicating that the game will close down on February 21. The game has already ...
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Landmark, the EverQuest Next spinoff MMO, is shutting down
Jan 6, 2017 · Daybreak Game Company is shutting down its massively multiplayer online sandbox game, Landmark, next month, the company announced today.
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H1Z1 Interview: Dynamic Weather, Forgelight Engine, Micro ...
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Aug 2, 2013 · Take in the beauty as you fly over the world of Ashfang in this trailer for EverQuest Next ... 573K views · 28:17 · Go to channel · "I'm Afraid ...
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Landmark Combat and PvP! [First Impressions] - Page 2
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Important Information Regarding EverQuest Next | EverQuest Next
I'm writing today to let you know that, after much review and consideration, Daybreak is discontinuing development of EverQuest Next. For the past 20 years ...
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Games using the ForgeLight game engine (original or modified) developed by Daybreak Game Company (formerly Sony Online Entertainment).
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EverQuest designer Brad McQuaid returns to series after 12-year ...
Mar 12, 2013 · EverQuest key designer Brad McQuaid has returned to the series he helped create, after some 12 years of absence.
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Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen announced as next MMORPG ... - VG247
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Aug 6, 2013 · It's a bold vision of what the company thinks a next-generation MMO should look like, and it begins with the world itself.<|control11|><|separator|>
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The RPG Scrollbars: EverQuest Next Killed The MMORPG
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EverQuest Next Landmark is "GURPS for MMOs," will include AI ...
Nov 11, 2013 · Most notably, SOE's Player Studio will become a cash marketplace for player-gathered resources, plots of real estate on Landmark's servers, and ...