The next EQ2 expansion is…?

Image of Luclin in New Tunaria The SOE summit is over, the Community Influencers have been told what the next EQ2 expansion is, shown the concept art, and they’re ready to influence us, but they can’t tell us… yet… The news that Rise of Kunark would be EQ2’s fourth expansion came out about a year … Read more

EQ3 on the PS3 in 2009?

Just saw this on F13.net: In a strategic move to closely align itself with the strong growth of the worldwide online gaming market, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) announced today that Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) will report to Kazuo Hirai, President and Group CEO, SCEI, effective April 1, 2008. SOE is moving from the movie … Read more

What MMO would I unmake?

Reader Elench dislikes EQ2 so much that he wishes it would die a swift death. Heartless Gamer wants to wipe EverQuest from the pages of history. Keen wants to zap Star Wars Galaxies.
Seems everyone has some certain game that holds a dark corner of their heart captive.
It took me a lot of thought before I finally realized that there was, in fact, one game that should have never been made, that constrained the MMO industry in untenable ways against which nearly every modern MMO still struggles.
A game that, if it had never been made, would have made today’s games different and far more enjoyable.
You’ll have to click through to find out what game that is.

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VG: Can I have my eyelids back?

I didn’t have long to spend in Vanguard last night after my raids in EQ2; just enough time to patch and run around a bit. Veskal’s Exchange, where I was parked, was transformed — they have a griffin flightmaster there, and one of the new riftstones there, which promised me that should I gate back … Read more