EverQuest
is celebrating its twelfth anniversary, and Ten Ton Hammer is dancing
in the streets of Freeport along with the other fans of all things EverQuest.
Several members of the staff have taken to playing on the progression
locked servers to recapture the magic of entering the world of Norrath
for the first time once again, and they began to wonder about what lies
ahead for the EverQuest
franchise and of the journey taken over the last 12 years. To that end,
our own Benjamin J. de la Durantaye sat down with other interest
players at a roundtable discussion with EverQuest’s
John Smedley (President of SOE), Alan VanCouvering (Assistant Lead
Designer), and Harvey Burgess (Associate Producer).
Last weekend, SOE President John Smedley appeared at the ninth annual meeting of The Syndicate, a thousand-strong influential multi-game guild in its fifteenth year of existence.
Fresh from the pages of
Smed's Blog
comes an interesting post about the future of Planetside. The President
of SOE waxes about what he really liked about the first incarnation of
the game as...
