When you are meeting both the Creative Director and Executive Producer of the EverQuest franchise there can only be one answer: a new version of EverQuest. Here is his LinkedIn profile for Daybreak:. The stakeholders comment is very interesting. What does external stakeholders mean? Could there be outside investors that are going to help bankroll a new version of EQ? Or does this mean he worked with Brian? Holly Longdale made reference to retconning EQ lore in an interview with Variety in A few months later, Brian James was brought in to help Rob with the lore.
But still, there is no mention of EverQuest. So now we know that both Brian and Rob worked on reimagining the existing lore of EverQuest for some new incarnation of the franchise. It was to discuss the new version of EverQuest. Clearly, he left the meeting very stoked about the discussion and went to Twitter to share a cryptic message. Obviously, the announcement did not happen in But now with the recent news of Daybreak creating three distinct studios, I believe the foundations are all in place for an announcement later in In the letter are more hints that something new is coming for the franchise:.
We are going to think outside the box a bit, so hold onto your tails! I believe these quotes speak for themselves as predictors of what is to come for the EverQuest franchise.
To say that EQ fans have the virtue of patience would be an understatement. No one can dispute that SOE and Daybreak have a checkered past. Talk is cheap, in a world ravaged by hype and Kickstarter scams.
Despite all of that, I believe that the formation of Darkpaw Games is a opportunity for a fresh start and a reset. The undying loyalty of the EQ community — both current and past — is the greatest asset that the EQ franchise has. Over the years, I feel that some EQ devs have forgotten this and need to be reminded of this reality and change their dismissive stance towards players. Showing players proper respect on the forums would be a good first step and a much-needed olive branch to reciprocate the loyalty of the community.
This is not anymore. Twenty years of bad habits, cronyism, creative sloth, and endemic dysfunction are not going to cut it today. The original EverQuest was a masterpiece and for 4 years it ruled the roost until World of Warcraft dethroned it. Both are announced initially for PC.
One of our primary drives was to keep you from being focused on the hotbars down at the bottom [of the screen]," Georgeson said, "And start watching the action up here on the stage where all the really cool things are happening. When the monster is doing a big wind-up, you can't move out of the way if you're not watching the monster We don't want to turn it into twitch gaming.
We want it to be approachable and familiar to MMO players, but we want to put more attention on the stage than on the hotbars. We can literally destroy anything at any time. We might not let you destroy it. For instance, a player-city we might not make player-destroyable but [would be] monster-destroyable. Otherwise, it would be a player parking lot. Georgeson started rattling through possibilities: earth wizards raising stone walls and the monsters having to break through it or walk around it; a hole being blown into the ground and monsters falling through it; monsters leaving crater footsteps.
Different parts of the world can be given different properties, making stone harder than dirt, for example. Here's an example of combat that's enhanced thanks to the destructibility of the world:. The new Next game spreads not just across the land but deep below it, allowing users to discover procedurally generated caverns and dungeons or just dig out their own. The game's creators have sorted out about 10, years of archaeological lore in the game's new timeline, Georgeson said.
We have a procedural system that can generate all these lost cities and ancient temples and buried areas and so on and so forth. And then we have occasional earthquakes in the world that destroy areas and reconstitute them so that players can constantly be finding new content as they explore.
Alternately, players can just burrow down and dig their own mines. Yep, like Minecraft. The EQ Next team wants their world to feel like it is full of consequence. They're introducing a system called "Rallying Calls" that are big public quests that result in world-changing events. Rallying Calls may take weeks or months to play out, Georgeson said.
He gave an example of having to start a tent city, explore the woods, go on quests—"not feather on the head quest stuff; you just see people, start helping and participate"—leading to new changes in monster behaviors, new changes to the land, all unfolding dynamically and, ideally, naturally. That was before the dragons attacked,' all this crazy stuff that they can participate in—there is a way to use a chronomancer and go back and experience it—but it's not the way the world is now.
The game's creatures will exhibit some pretty good artificial intelligence. Instead, EQ Next will add orcs to the world and the orcs will intelligently find a place to live, depending on what's around them. In Georgeson's example, they might be looking for a lonely stretch of world where there are no guards and the occasional player walks by.
Georgeson said that this AI system will be applied to the various non-playable races and species in the game. There's parkour. Bertie is senior staff writer and Eurogamer's Poland-and-dragons correspondent. He's part of the furniture here, a friendly chair, and reports on all kinds of things, the stranger the better.
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