EverQuest News

Everquest's executive producer, Holly "Windstalker" Longdale has announced in a news post today that Everquest will be switching over their update system.  Rather than doing yearly expansions, their plan is to instead release bi-annual "campaigns" which will contain the same amount together as their yearly counterpart.  According to the post, the reason for this is to increase developer agility to [...]

As EverQuest is pretty well known for their numerous progression servers, it should be no surprise that there is a forum post detailing the latest one. However there is an interesting piece of information listed in the overview. One of the possible options for the progression server would be half speed, which is the slowest it could go. The original [...]

Although Daybreak already started the festivities a few weeks ago, today marks the start of the player-designed missions event in EverQuest. Just like the currently ongoing "War Games" mission event, the player-designed missions will also go on for a scheduled six weeks. The missions will reward players with currency, as well as with hinted "hidden bonus rewards if you approach the missions [...]

The EverQuest staff posted yesterday about a patch that went live earlier today. As they stated, "There’s an in-game issue we need to fix so we wanted to take advantage of the opportunity and address a couple of other things, namely a few improvements to experience gains." Older zones will yield greater experience for players level 101 to 105 and [...]

Daybreak Games has seemingly sought fit to reduce the powers of their gamemasters in both EverQuest and EverQuest II. This is reflected in an updated support policy for EverQuest, which details when the gamemasters would not intervene. Many things that they were able to do before, such as fixing deleted items and restoring deleted characters, are now beyond their powers. The GMs will [...]

Being a game older than many MMORPG players themselves, EverQuest has reached its 16th year. Daybreak Game Company has outlined the events planned until the end of April, which involves several in-game holidays and events. These events will include multiple player-designed missions that everyone will be able to take part in. In addition, developer Johnathan Caraker mentioned that there would be changes to [...]

Progression servers are something that EverQuest has used quite often in its long time of service. Daybreak (formerly SOE) has recently announced that another such server will be coming out for players. Executive Producer Holly Longdale stated that, "It's less now about how we do a progression server and more about what kind of progression server will we do as [...]