EverQuest Next Announcement from Daybreak

[Nitsude]

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https://www.daybreakgames.com/news/daybreak-president-community-letter-everquest-next-2016

[Paleman]

shocking

gotta admit the irony of pantheon outliving eqn

[-Catherin-]

Didnt see this coming at all...

Joking. I'm not surprised.


From the article: "Unfortunately, as we put together the pieces, we found that it wasn’t fun."

A lot of people could have told them that a long time ago.

[FatMice]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ytCEuuW2_A

[trite]

long time coming, the ideas they were trying to run with wouldn't have created an experience like the original everquest anyway

[Uuruk]

http://i.imgur.com/nC3rFV6.jpg Didn't see this coming at all...

Joking. I'm not surprised.


From the article: "Unfortunately, as we put together the pieces, we found that it wasn’t fun."

A lot of people could have told them that a long time ago.

[alphys]

Dang, the desecration of Everquest's IP to generate a new stream of revenue failed ;w;

What were they thinking with that engine? FREE JUMPING AND SHIT, THATS WHAT EQ WAS ALL ABOUT. PARKOUR

http://i.imgur.com/oE0HyPs.jpg

[Pokesan]

there's something poetic in this being announced the same day pantheon is doing its first major reveal

e: brad did 3/11

[Thulack]

h1z1 going to make them more then EQ next would have

[Morphidus]

Scope creep anyone?

[khanable]

Seriously these fuckers just need to take classic - pop and revamp the graphics and add some less dumb quality of life shit and re-release.

Bam eq3.

[joppykid]

Seriously these fuckers just need to take classic - pop and revamp the graphics and add some less dumb quality of life shit and re-release.

Bam eq3.

[Morlaeth]

Seriously these fuckers just need to take classic - pop and revamp the graphics and add some less dumb quality of life shit and re-release.

Bam eq3.

[skipdog]

Seriously these fuckers just need to take classic - pop and revamp the graphics and add some less dumb quality of life shit and re-release.

Bam eq3.

[Fifield]

Seriously these fuckers just need to take classic - pop and revamp the graphics and add some less dumb quality of life shit and re-release.

Bam eq3.

i'd buy

[Morphidus]

It's not a 2016 MMO without a 200 Million dollar budget.

Maybe they can get Morgan Freeman, James Earl Jones, and Sean Connery to do voice-overs.

[Tankdan]

It's been like this for months, they're just now officially saying it. Good on them.

Blizzard should buy the IP and make their own version from scratch.

[Agecroft]

It took what...8 years(?) to realize it wasnt fun? LOL

[Tann]

shocking

gotta admit the irony of pantheon outliving eqn

"Outliving" term used loosely

[Agecroft]

Seriously these fuckers just need to take classic - pop and revamp the graphics and add some less dumb quality of life shit and re-release.

Bam eq3.

[Sage Truthbearer]

EQN has been on a shitty CR for a while now and has decided to simply /camp out for good.

:(

[Agecroft]

I think it /q a long time ago but yah its now just being removed from the world...

[Paleman]

"Outliving" term used loosely

pantheon project exists, people are developing it.


EQN is now nonexistant.


Seems like a pretty spot on assessment.

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

But it had voxels. Voxels are what gamers crave.

confused.

[thewrush]

What is a Voxel?

[Jauna]

Welp, there goes my dream of an upgraded Norrath to todays technology while listening to Jeremy Soule's take on EverQuest music.

Welp, back to playing p99 furiously for a month or two then going back to other MMOs for the rest of the year and repeat until old.

[Daywolf]

Seriously these fuckers just need to take classic - pop and revamp the graphics and add some less dumb quality of life shit and re-release.

Bam eq3.
http://i.imgur.com/Hna0Bec.jpg?1

cool cats need not apply ;)

[Kalex716]

I wonder what happens if the IP gets sold. There's speculation the holding company might chop it all up and sell it as parts this year.

[Spyder73]

I wonder what happens if the IP gets sold. There's speculation the holding company might chop it all up and sell it as parts this year.

Seems cheaper to just rip it off and rename it...EQ IP not worth d!ck

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

What is a Voxel?

It's what gamers crave.

[Daywolf]

I wonder what happens if the IP gets sold. There's speculation the holding company might chop it all up and sell it as parts this year.EQ mobile game to come most likely.

[Morningbreath]

Seriously these fuckers just need to take classic - pop and revamp the graphics and add some less dumb quality of life shit and re-release.

Bam eq3.

I thought they banned kindergarten-level common sense from the internets?

[jcr4990]

Seriously these fuckers just need to take classic - pop and revamp the graphics and add some less dumb quality of life shit and re-release.

Bam eq3.

Been saying this for many years

I would pay lots of dollars

Lots

[HallyVee]

I'm interested in what will happen to the tech. Miguel Cepero has been posting great videos of his work on the engine, would hate to lose that.

[Swish]

It's been like this for months, they're just now officially saying it. Good on them.

Blizzard should buy the IP and make their own version from scratch.

Live servers pretty much bent to the Blizzard model anyway with their cash shop and ridiculous gingerbread man style mercs. Was very sad to see.

I'm not sure any publisher could be trusted with it to make it great again.

[Ordrek]

Live servers pretty much bent to the Blizzard model anyway with their cash shop and ridiculous gingerbread man style mercs. Was very sad to see.

I'm not sure any publisher could be trusted with it to make it great again.

Donald Trump tells me he is talented at making things great again.

[AzzarTheGod]

Donald Trump tells me he is talented at making things great again.

You heard right. We are gonna do a great game.

[Jimjam]

That's it guys. There's only one thing left to do. Make our own MMO with modern technology.

Let's call it Neverquest, Adventures in Notrath!

[Foxplay]

Good riddance

Would have been GW2 meets Minecraft abomination anyway

[Swish]

Gotta be sad for those Landmark enthusiasts.

[Rick Sanchez]

Camelot unchained
Pantheon

These are the last hopes for us old time mmo lovers, thats as close as it will ever get.

[Thugnuts]

I'm not sure any publisher could be trusted with it to make it great again.

Next major MMO is going to introduce gender-fluid transvestite otherkin-walrus beings from the 5th dimension as playable characters.

[JackFlash]

But it had voxels. Voxels are what gamers crave.

confused.

http://i.imgur.com/3vzf3Zn.png

[Swish]

Next major MMO is going to introduce gender-fluid transvestite otherkin-walrus beings from the 5th dimension as playable characters.

A feminazi's wet dream

[Bristlebaner]

Seriously these fuckers just need to take classic - pop and revamp the graphics and add some less dumb quality of life shit and re-release.

Bam eq3.

You make that sound so easy. Some would consider instances, instant group queues and transmogging to be "Less dumb quality of life shit".

and I think we all know how well those changes would go over in EQ3 with the classic crowd.

[AzzarTheGod]

Camelot unchained
Pantheon

These are the last hopes for us old time mmo lovers, thats as close as it will ever get.

This.

marc Jacobs better deliver on that fucking Camelot Unchained.

[Golaniel]

In sad...

Mostly sad that this doesn't make me sad.

EQN wasn't going to be Everquest. Looks like they finally conceded that point.

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

The classic game is solid, and a re-do where it is just simply brought graphically up to date and some non-fucked-up changes are put in, and bixies are made a playable race, would have an audience. But it is not enough for a business to find worthwhile. Let's say it was done perfectly. Exactly how everyone who likes classic eq wants it. ToV is even properly GM'd.

How many server you think DBG could populate? Maybe 3-4? That's just not enough. Eq is legendary, but it is not 20+ paying servers legendary.

If they would have done it up maybe at the 10th anniversary, would have been clever. But nope. They were working on voxels. It's what gamers crave.

[Swish]

True people would rather do H1Z1 Battle Royale games, swear a bunch of times and spend money on skins.

Nobody wants to play timesink nerd games anymore.

[AzzarTheGod]

True people would rather do H1Z1 Battle Royale games, swear a bunch of times and spend money on skins.

Nobody wants to play timesink nerd games anymore.

[Daywolf]

True people would rather do H1Z1 Battle Royale games, swear a bunch of times and spend money on skins.

Nobody wants to play timesink nerd games anymore.
meh it'll prolly wind up like planetside 1, broken and full of cheats with no plans to fix.

[DarkwingDuck]

Seriously these fuckers just need to take classic - pop and revamp the graphics and add some less dumb quality of life shit and re-release.

Bam eq3.

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

True people would rather do H1Z1 Battle Royale games, swear a bunch of times and spend money on skins.

Nobody wants to play timesink nerd games anymore.

Swish, when you are right, you are right, sir.

As I said, if everything went perfect, if it was marketed perfectly, I think you could get 3-4 stable long term servers.

The premise of eq requires at least a year+ of commitment to a gameworld, and not a gameworld designed in 40 minute chunks, or instanced or buyable for your coinvenience: it has to be a competitive world, too.


This is the flip side of the coolness of a truly persistent, shared online world. It requires people to inhabit it. And there are not enough of us freaks.

edit: this might be one of the geniuses of eve online: it is only one server, ie, one persistent world. As p99 proves, you can always fill one "instance" of an online world. But how to make that work as a game, and a business, is a big challenge.

[Jigawatts]

Camelot unchained
Pantheon

These are the last hopes for us old time mmo lovers, thats as close as it will ever get.

The beautiful thing about these two games is that they aren't trying to be all things to all people. Both are old school leaning, but Pantheon is almost 100% PVE focused, while Camelot is almost 100% PVP focused. No nerfing and balancing measures based on one style of play deeply fucking with the other. The games can coexist simultaneously, almost complementing each other rather than really competing with one another.