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EverQuest is a 3D fantasy-themed massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) originally developed by Verant Interactive and 989 Studios for Windows.It was released by Sony Online Entertainment in March 1999 in North America, [5] and by Ubisoft in Europe in April 2000. [6]
Promoted by Sony Online as EverQuest's "first download-only extension", it was the first EverQuest content expansion available almost exclusively from Sony Online's direct purchase and download service. Due to overwhelming demand, a limited number of CDs were made available to retailers after the product release date.
On October 22, 2009, Sony Online Entertainment released EverQuest II: The Complete Collection, a retail bundle which included the base game, the first three adventure packs, and the first six expansions up to The Shadow Odyssey. [45] The package also came with 500 Station Cash to use in the in-game digital store, and 60 days of free game time. [46]
Later source code in DikuMUD used the term "mobile" to refer to a generic NPC, shortened further to "mob" in identifiers. DikuMUD was a heavy influence on EverQuest, [14] [15] and the term as it exists in MMORPGs is derived from the MUD usage. [5] [1] The term is properly an abbreviation rather than an acronym.
EverQuest II reached 100,000 active accounts within 24 hours of release, which grew to over 300,000 two months later in January 2005. [38] As of 2012, the game had an estimated subscriber peak of 325,000 achieved sometime in 2005. [39] As of September 2020, EverQuest II had 21,000 subscribers and 29,000 monthly active players. [40]
A game may calculate hate generated by a player on a mob based using factors such as: Whether the mob is set to attack players on sight (aggressive). The distance between the mob and the player. The area in which a player automatically gets hate or aggro is called the Aggro Radius. [2] The relative strength of the player compared to the mob.
Grendel is a boss mob in the PlayStation 2 game EverQuest Online Adventures. Final Fantasy VIII features a boss monster, which later becomes an incidental monster, called Grendel which depicts the beast as being four-legged. Grendel's Cave: a MUD role-playing fantasy game based on the original story. Final Fantasy Tactics
EverQuest Online Adventures was set in the fictional world of Norrath 500 years prior to the original EverQuest, in the "Age of Adventure". The world featured many places familiar to fans of the original and most of the differences were explained in the lore of EverQuest. The gameplay focused on character advancement, environment combat, quests ...