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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]
A render of the new player race, the Sarnak. The Sarnak in EverQuest were an NPC race that inhabited part of Kunark. In Rise of Kunark there are two distinct types of Sarnak: NPC characters who will be familiar to players of the original EverQuest; and the new, playable Sarnak, who were "magically engineered" to fight in the war against the Iksar Empire.
The action occurs in several new zones, including the Plane of Rage, home of Sullon Zek, the Plane of Magic, home of Druzzil, and the lost city of Takish-Hiz. The zones for the city of Freeport and the Desert of Ro were also revamped. According to the press release, new features included: Player-set Traps; Spheres of Influence
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]
The EverQuest II Player's Guide did not contain rules for magic, though a free download at Sword and Sorcery Studio's website did give basic spells for low-level characters. Almost a year later, on March 1, 2006, the EverQuest II Spell Guide, which included the core rules for magic and a full spell list, was published in PDF form only.
On September 7 (8 in Europe), the first pre-Cataclysm quest chains were released to live servers, in the Dun Morogh and Durotar zones. A few days later, Patch 4.0.1 was released to public test realms, indicating that a release date might be in the not-too-distant future. [14] [15]
In Legends of Norrath, players could fight in tournaments and gain loot cards for both EverQuest and EverQuest II. [1] The interrelation between the MMO and the card game was considered unusual at the time. [1] The tournaments awarded booster packs or rare cards to the winners, but were limited only to players located in the United States.
EverQuest Next was a planned massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), meant to be the successor to EverQuest, EverQuest Online Adventures and EverQuest II. The game was in development by the Daybreak Game Company , but the project was terminated in 2016.