The death of Everquest

[Grizlor]

It worked for Velious!

[Ungkor]

[Vigdis]

[jdthomas]

[Vincenzo]

[Tangurena]

What will kill EQ are a few more rollbacks like this past week. The QA process is pretty much a joke. Especially if they let beta stuff out by mistake, then over react by screwing everyone who had even the smallest thing to do with it. There is still crap that's been broken since pre-Kunark.

[Landragoran Heronwing]

I don't think Gard is on the mark this time. EQ has experienced shrinkage, and probably will experience more. But I can just point to Ultima Online to show you that once-hugely-popular games never truly go away, they just go out of style.
EQ will be around as long as there's a profit to be made. Which, in my estimation, will be always. They can always just fire people, condense servers, and otherwise reduce costs. The business model works in reverse just as well as it did when the game was growing in user subscriptions. EQ will be around for years for the gamers who love it.

I'm still retired (since GoD), but probably just because I love WoW so much. I've leveled three characters up now and its been fun each time. EQ does have an amazing amount of content, but that's to its benefit.

[Vincenzo]

[Phatcow]

[jdthomas]

As long as there is new content to keep people interested, eq will perservere.

[Dasha]

Hey hey.. Ive tried just about every other MMORPG there is looking for one thing..

I have been looking for the feeling I had the first 2-3 years of EQ..

When EQ was new wow was it hard.. it took you a month or 2 to hit lvl 10 hehe.. no other game has come close to giving me that challenge..

[Phatcow]