EverQuest II Steam news

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• Review score79% positive
• Total reviews2,863
• Release dateDec 7, 2011
• DeveloperDarkpaw Games
• PublisherDaybreak Game Company

Genres: Massively Multiplayer, RPG, Free To Play

Company pages: Developer: Darkpaw GamesPublisher: Daybreak Game Company

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EverQuest II Steam news

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• EverQuest is bigger than EverQuest 2 - 5 December 2020

  EverQuest is bigger than EverQuest 2, it turns out. EverQuest, the ground-breaking fantasy MMO that launched over 20 years ago in March 1999, currently has more subscribers, more monthly active players and makes more money than EverQuest 2, which came out 16 years ago in 2004. The factoid comes from a company called Enad Global 7 (EG7), which recently bought EverQuest owner Daybreak in a $300m deal . Read more

• Developers and industry legends on the games that defined the last 20 years - 5 September 2019

  As Eurogamer turns 20, we thought, you know what? It's not all about us. It's also about the developers, the people behind the virtual magic that inspired the creation of Eurogamer two decades ago. Without the developers, we wouldn't be here. And so, we thought we'd ask a few of them (20, in fact!) to pick the games that defined the last 20 years, and see what would come of it. We approached a broad range of people, from top executives and legendary talent to tiny indies. We asked them to pick a game that defined the last 20 years, but left it up to them to interpret the question. It could be a game that defined the industry, that meant a lot to them professionally or personally, or is just a favourite. We're delighted with the responses (thank you to everyone who contributed!). There's some fantastic insight here, super cool anecdotes and the odd surprising choice. We hope you enjoy it…

• Summer Spectacular 2019! - 1 July 2019

  https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F3953123%2F258d386c6a5869742c5d9caaa7baee07bd4d8ecb.jpg Summer Spectacular! Get ready for all the bonuses, gifts, and deals you can handle, because Summer is here and so is the Summer Spectacular! Log in and enjoy it all beginning July 1, 2019: Bonus Rewards! Status, Guild XP, and Currency rewards will be doubled throughout the event. Members, your already-doubled membership currency bonus is doubled AGAIN during the event. This includes Ethereal currency! Member Gifts! Log in and visit the Marketplace for a very special (and free!) Scorched Sky Carpet Mount. This will only be available during the event. Members only. Marketplace! SALE! Most Marketplace items will be 20% off. And don't forget, as a member you always receive an additional 10% discount off the sale price. Excludes Spell Research. PLUS, all past Mercenary, Fam…

• Fire Up! Scorched Sky Celebrations Return! - 26 June 2019

  Scorched Sky Celebrations Are Back! The pyres of the Scorched Sky Celebration have been ignited once more, and worshipers of Fennin Ro and his son, Solusek Ro, can be found celebrating their gods across all of Norrath! During this special celebration, the devotees of Flame are offering a chance for all to rejoice in the primal power of Fire and Flame, with no grudge towards those who have embraced other deities. They believe that within the flames all mettle is tempered, both literally and figuratively. That which is weak, distracting, and fleeting will be burned away in battles against fire elementals, leaving only the strong, pure, and resilient. From Wednesday, June 26, 2019 at 12:01 AM PT until Monday, July 8, 2019 at 11:59 PM PT, you'll be able to join the devotees of Flame for this fiery celebration. https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F3953123%2F072c98%25E2%2580%25A6

• Producer's Letter: Summer 2019 - 17 June 2019

  Hail, almighty Norrathans! Summer is upon us and we've got updates for you! We are all really excited for what's coming this year, including the 15th Anniversary of EverQuest II and our expansion. And we've got plenty coming up between now and then! Legendary Ethereal Item Drops and New Expert Dungeons! This summer, play in new Expert versions of the heroic dungeons in the Chaos Descending expansion for awesome lewtz! It’s a good idea to use this opportunity to get leveled up for...reasons…too! Check out this Fabled item from an Expert dungeon: https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F3953123%2Feff887110e9f3089b73e28bee0f8df09bfe8fa2e.jpg You also may want to look for some best-in-slot items in the Chaos Descending Public Quests as of the June 18th Game Update too. Vagueness intended. Both the Chaos Descending Public Quests and Expert Dungeons begin June 18, 2019…

• New Expansion: Chaos Descending - 12 December 2018

  https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F34023932%2Fda069bd9da973e088f34a6deca3e4b82c89e875b.jpg Hail, brave heroes of Norrath! A mystery of celestial proportion threatens the order in the Elemental Planes, and chaos looms. Balance must be restored. Norrathians, return to the Planes of Fire, Water, Air, and Earth as you have never seen them before. Gain new strengths, learn new abilities, and hold your own in battle against the Planes' ceaseless denizens and their masters. Will you be strong enough to defeat the gods upon the elemental thrones? EverQuest II’s fifteenth expansion, Chaos Descending, is now available! https://youtu.be/M-UDFrg5YXE Want a more in-depth look at the new lands you'll be exploring? Take a moment to review our preview articles before diving into the new expansion content: Chaos Descending Expansion OverviewMyrist, the Great LibraryDoomfire…

• EverQuest & H1Z1 company Daybreak suffer more layoffs - 8 December 2018

  Daybreak Game Company, the H1Z1 and PlanetSide 2 mob formerly known as Sony Online Entertainment, have laid off an unconfirmed number of staff. It’s the second wave of layoffs at Daybreak this year, and a real tough time to be laid off. It’s the usual “optimising our structure” sort of reason. Daybreak say they’ll continue to run their current and are working on new games too. (more…)

• EverQuest is getting another expansion - guess how many we're up to now? - 31 October 2018

  A milestone 25th expansion pack has been announced for 19-year-old online game EverQuest. It's called The Burning Lands and will be released 11th December 2018. What's left for a 25th expansion to add? A luck statistic, luckily, as well as six new expansion zones themed around the planes of air, smoke and fire. You can see these in an archived Burning Lands livestream below. EverQuest today is obviously a different place to when it launched in 1999, when it was queen bee - the MMO all other MMOs aspired to be. Today the herd has moved on, to WOW and beyond, but the committed veterans remain. And they remain to raid, it seems. EQ still goes in for big-numbers raids, you see - raids with 40 people or more. WOW scaled back to 25 players years ago in an effort to make raiding less hardcore (it takes a lot of organisation getting 40 people in one place at one time). Read more…

• New DLC Available - EverQuest II: Tears of Veeshan - 12 November 2013

  EverQuest II: Tears of Veeshan , all new content for EverQuest® II Free-To-Play. Your Way.™ is Now Available on Steam! EverQuest II: Tears of Veeshan features tons of engaging content and will place heroes amongst the dragon dead in the Eternal Broodlands. After rediscovering Yelinak, now the steward of Vesspyr Isles alongside other fallen and familiar dragons, players learn of the time/space powers behind the Tear of Veeshan stolen by prismatic dragon Kerafyrm the Awakened. With Kerafyrm’s fearsome power looming over Norrath, players are called upon to shine light into the darkness brought on by the Awakened’s draconic army, and set the stage for a new Age to begin!

• New Expansion Available - Everquest II: Chains of Eternity - 13 November 2012

  Chains of Eternity , an all new expansion for Everquest II , is now available on Steam! The 9th expansion to the revolutionary franchise contains must-have features such as level increases, prestige abilities and new game items only available with this expansion, such as adornments that become more powerful with your character. Also, explore new content in two overlands in the spirit realm, and experience adventure with new dungeons and quests. Put right the imbalance in the Ethernere!

• Sony Online Games To Start Letting Players Add Their Own Items To The World, And Make Money Off Them Too - 6 September 2012

  Over the past couple of years, Sony Online Entertainment has transitioned all of their MMORPGs into free-to-play games, relying on microtransactions and a cash shop to make their money. Now, they've announced a plan that would let players make real-world money from SOE's cash stores, too. The Player Studio will allow players—for now, of EverQuest and EverQuest II , with other games to be added—to create and upload their own in-game items, after which SOE will consider adding them to the shop: Once complete, players are encouraged to name and create a description for their item, describe how the item will fit into the prospective game's ongoing narrative storyline, and submit it to SOE for review and possible inclusion in the SOE Marketplace. If a player-created item is selected for inclusion in the SOE Marketplace, SOE will share 40% of the net amount it receives from the sa…

• SOE's E3 Line-Up Includes That Interesting Piece of EverQuest II Technology - 1 June 2012

  Publishers are rolling out their E3 line-ups just as the big convention rears its massive head. We've even had some somewhat-surprising, but really-not-that-surprising reveals come of these announcements, too. Today SOE announced their stock of games to be shown on the showfloor, including the expected suspects like PlanetSide 2 , updates to released titles, and several new MMOs. But what's most enticing, to me at least, is the new EverQuest II tech —SOEmote—that has facial and voice recognition built in. See below for the full line-up. PlanetSide 2 First hands-on play with PlanetSide 2, the highly-anticipated MMOFPS. PlanetSide 2 takes all the groundbreaking features from the original game — massive multiplayer battles, distinct empires to rally around, and enormous continents where intense ground and air combat unfolds — and adds features that modern gamers hav…

• Make Crazy Faces At Your Webcam And Your EverQuest II Character Will Soon Mimic Them - 1 June 2012

  Emotes in MMOs are no new thing. Interacting with players online just isn't the same if you can't dance with them every once in awhile. But EverQuest II , an eight-year-old MMORPG, is getting an even more impressive facelift for even more expressive emotes. Namely, your emotes. No typing, only a webcam that will watch your facial expressions to instruct your avatar to match it. Smile and your avatar smiles with you. Talk, and the SOEmote technology will translate your mumblings into creature-fied versions of itself. The voice part is a little creepy, as you can see in the video above. I might have nightmares of an ogre version of my voice whispering ominous things to me. SOE will be unveiling this new tech at E3 this year, so hang tight for our impressions. Or more accurately, Fahey's impressions.

• How Fifteen Seconds of Music Hooked Me for Five Years - 22 March 2012

  It was a crappy, gray, rainy day in January, 2005. I was in New York visiting my then-boyfriend, on my the week of break left before my final semester of grad school started back home in Boston. Although I had the luxury of a student schedule, he had to go to work, leaving me to entertain myself for the day. While he ran around the room getting dressed, he swooped by his PC and turned it on. "I just got this game," he said. "I'm pretty sure you'll like it." Dubiously, I peered over his shoulder. " EverQuest ?" I said. "I mean, seriously? You know I don't do the whole online gaming thing. Never have." " EverQuest II ," he said, "not the first one. It's new. And you should seriously try it," he replied. "I think it's right up your alley. Give it a chance, at least?" And with that he dashed off to the subway, running late. Still in the t-shirt I'd slept in, with my hair a mess and blinking…

• Dying Boy Gets His Own Personal Virtual Wonderland Built by a Game Community in Just Four Days - 14 March 2012

  Long-time Everquest II player Carri Hoover has a son not quite as old as the game is. Sadly, however, six-year-old John Hoover is terminally ill, with doctors estimating he has only weeks left to live. Last Tuesday, March 6, she posted a request to the "Norrathian Homeshow" board on the official forums, a place where players who enjoy decorating their in-game houses and guild halls compare notes. She wrote: This is a depressing post but I need some help. My 6 yr old son has cancer and was recently given 6 - 12 weeks to live. He has a frog that he likes to run around Tenebrous Tangle Island on; however, it is sparse and he has requested to add trees, fences, stairs, animals and all kinds of other items to make his island fun and exciting. Are there any decorators out there that would be willing to assist in adding these items (and any others their imagination poses) to help me make the i…

• This is the Very Best Reason to Go Back to EverQuest II - 22 December 2011

  EverQuest II ushers in a new age of player-created content with its new Dungeon Maker system, a ridiculously easy and entertaining way to amaze and kill your friends. Released earlier this month as part of the Age of Discovery expansion, EverQuest II 's Dungeon Maker is a tool that allows a player or (groups of players) to design, publish, and share their own dungeon designs. While it sounds a great deal like City of Heroes ' mission architect or Star Trek Online 's foundry, building a dungeon with Dungeon Maker actually feels more like getting together with a friend in Halo 's Forge mode. I got a chance to poke around a bit with Dungeon Maker before the expansion was released, and I really liked what I saw. The builder picks a floor plan and then wanders about placing items, decorations, and creatures via a simple point and click interface. Monster behaviors can be programmed with a fe…

• Now Available - Everquest II Free to Play. Your Way. - 7 December 2011

  Everquest II Free to Play. Your Way. is Now Available on Steam. Explore an enormous online world where friends come together for adventure and community. Immerse yourself in the game's exciting locales, mysterious lands, intense battles, exciting quests and amazing achievements. Featuring breathtaking graphics and a vast, beautiful and dangerous game world to explore, EverQuest II sets the standard for MMORPG online gaming. Now, you can experience EverQuest II Free to Play. Your Way!™*

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