EverQuest

By Wilhelm2451 Sony Online Entertainment will continue to talk about The Agency, FreeRealms, and DC Universe Online in 2009.  We will hear cool things and see exciting trailers, but no actual games will come our way. 12 - Blizzard is Smarter Than You

By Wilhelm2451 Sony Online Entertainment talked a lot about cool upcoming products, but shipped no new games.  Aside from two expansions and a lot of small content additions, the big headline of the year for SOE seemed to be, “EverQuest and EverQuest II: Now with RMT!”  While I won’t argue with Grimwell’...

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By Wilhelm2451 Too long? And I don’t even want to get started on the armor sets.  66% of the monthly fee so you can dress like a NPC? As it stands, I’m not buying any of it. In which I opine about the positioning of the deckchairs on the Titanic. First off, what Blizzard is

By Wilhelm2451 Everybody else is talking about Station Cash being introduced into EverQuest and EverQuest II.  Even Smed. My own reaction: Meh. So, for me, it is just, “meh.” Everybody else is talking about Station Cash being introduced into EverQuest and EverQuest II.  Eve

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By Wilhelm2451 The choices MMORPG.com has listed are: Empyrean Age (EVE Online)Mines of Moria (Lord of the Rings Online)Seeds of Destruction (EverQuest)The Shadow Odyssey (EverQuest II)Wrath of the Lich King (World of Warcraft) And, in a very close second place for me is Wrath of the Lich King.  Blizza...

By Wilhelm2451 Wednesday night, Lich King Eve, found three of us together in EverQuest and looking to start charting a course forward in the game.  We had decided to look into heritage quests, starting with Restore the Light right there in the Commonlands.  We redid our group members to get ourselves back...

By Wilhelm2451 So we’ll see if a fresh start will revive the spirit of Norrath with me. Posted in entertainment, EverQuest II, Sony Online Entertainment, World of Warcraft       With Warhammer Online expiring for most of the instance group we began exploring game ideas for the ongoing Saturday night g...

By Wilhelm2451 Of course, World of Warcraft and the upcoming Wrath of the Lich King expansion was high on the list.  I think Blizzard would have to unleash actual zombies on the homes of their subscribers to keep that from being a hit.  But with Blizzard banning Potshot out of the blue, if only temporarily, w...

By Wilhelm2451 We have certainly moved in that direction as we have climbed out of the (Diku)MUD and into three dimensional worlds. In 1999 the city of Freeport in EverQuest certainly felt like a real place when compared to the text based city of Waterdeep in TorilMUD on which it was based.

By Wilhelm2451 So this player, angry at how things played out, decided to hit back at the game. The access to information that sites like Allakhazam gave us, access that felt so illicit back in the early days of EverQuest yet proved so necessary to many of us, began to feed back towards the MUD world.

By Wilhelm2451 Another fine Darren production! Posted in Blizzard, entertainment, EVE Online, EverQuest, EverQuest II, Lord of the Rings Online, MMO Design, Podcasts, Sony Online Entertainment, Warhammer Online, World of Warcraft   Tagged: SUWT    “Shut Up We’re Talking” one of the podcasts i...

By Wilhelm2451 Topics: IntroductionsListener Mail - From Gnova and SwollenBeefWhat we're playing (EQ2, EVE, WAR, WOW)ZOMG! Zombies!! - We talk about Blizzard's recent zombie event that was part of their build up to the Wrath of the Lich King launch and how a good idea went bad in some cases when players...

By Wilhelm2451 While the in-game events go on, the free play time is winding down for SOE's Living Legacy promotion. The tap was turned off for EverQuest last Friday and EverQuest II will become the sole domain of paying subscribers by the end of this week. EverQuest II EverQuest

By Wilhelm2451 For no good reason, I have done fishing in every MMO I have played that made some sort of angling mechanic available. I have had characters with fishing skills at the cap in EverQuest, EverQuest 2, and World of Warcraft. Equipping my new pole (and hat), I was soon fishing.

By Wilhelm2451 In EverQuest II, my swashbuckler Blintz became my highest level MMO character at the time, hitting the level 50 mark. New Linking Sites Best Search Terms world of warcraft human men The way they behave, it is best to be that specific.] Best Spam Comment EVE Online World of Warcraft

By Wilhelm2451 I am going to sail dangerously close to the dread topic "Why So Much Fantasy?" when it comes to MMORPGs. Basically, fantasy gets chaos for free. Science fiction has to work for it. I am going to sail dangerously close to the dread topic “Why So Much Fantasy?” when it comes to MMORPGs.

By Wilhelm2451 Alan "Brenlo" Crosby, Aimee "Ashlanne" Rekoske, and Christina "Kytherea" Delzer host this episode of the SOE Podcast, with Jason "Pex" Ryan reading the news. SOE Game NewsListener Emails from Dennis and Motor_ZPodcast 29 Follow UpsFan Faire 2008EverQuest Online Adventures - Happy A...

By Wilhelm2451 Back in February 2007 Kendricke dropped by with the news that Sony Online Entertainment applied for a trademark for "EVERQUEST II RISE OF KUNARK," thus confirming my guess that Kunark would be the EverQuest II expansion due near the end of 2007. A quick check of the U.S. Patent and Trademark O...

By Wilhelm2451 Okay, I am still enchanted by Tipa’s idea of turning EverQuest into a single player game to preserve the lore and let people who played it “way back when…” explore their old haunts. So why not take it a step further and reduce it all to LEGO bricks? There would have to be an overlying story creat...

By Wilhelm2451 And so on down the line. In the end though, while the data is interesting, I am not sure there is any dramatic conclusion to be drawn from the comparison. Star Wars Galaxies players appear to be more likely to run X-Fire than EverQuest players perhaps?

By Wilhelm2451 EverQuest II Aside from our adventure in the Court of Innovation, I have not had much time to get in and play EverQuest II.  One of our original guild members came back to the game.  He left before Desert of Flames came out and seemed to be pleased.  He has even declared the fae race, which I persua...

By Wilhelm2451 But even after helping to push the 3D market, EverQuest ended up looking dated graphically in only a couple of years.  This lead to the regular routine of upgrading the graphics engine and various models in EQ, something that seems to have left a mark on Brad and company.  So they decided to ge...

By Wilhelm2451 Or why PC games are killing the PC gaming industry Or why Blizzard and small independents are the bright spots in the PC gaming industry There is a reason that PC game sales are up mostly thanks to Blizzard.  They seem to know what the hell they are doing.

By Wilhelm2451 Just kidding!  EverQuest does not use WASD.  I had to consult my original manual to be sure.  Remember (if you played it) that “A” used to be auto-attack, so you would click on an NPC, forget to hit enter to get the text entry field, then start typing until you hit an “A,” attacked the NPC, and got...

By Wilhelm2451 I bought it and probably played about 10 hours online before EverQuest II came out.  I think I have played another 4 or 5 hours since then.  While I liked the game when it came out, MMOs have since swallowed my gaming time.  Also, I have purchased none of the expansions or bonus packs, so the last t...