everquest next cancelled

[norseamd]

Columbus Nova is probably going to do everything we worried it would to SOE, but just on a longer timescale so people dont notice as much, and there are no huge protests, just destroyed dreams and whimpers in the dark.

A “Landmark Launch” FAQ has a few more details, including that Landmark will not be free-to-play as was originally announced, but will instead carry a $10 price tag.

http://www.pcgamer.com/everquest-next-is-cancelled-but-landmark-will-go-on/

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Sad but the videos looked like wow on steroids. Plus I never understood how they were going to keep everything looking nice while allowing everything to be destroyed or shaped into a dong.

 

[norseamd]

Sad but the videos looked like wow on steroids. Plus I never understood how they were going to keep everything looking nice while allowing everything to be destroyed or shaped into a dong.

True. But the fact is this. SOE, or Daybreak if you will, has a lot of recognition from Everquest. Everquest 1 and Everquest 2 are still played, and still bringing in money, but that will only ever be limited in what it can do for the company. In order to have a future they have to produce new games. I am certain the way both Landmark and Everquest Next have been run has disillusioned many fans and potential customers, and Daybreak will only see detriments in the long run because of it.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

I wonder what the fallout will be for the founders pack people.
Thank god they released that Lion/Tasmanian devil video it made me suspicious.

 

[norseamd]

They were pissed off well before this, since apparently Landmark has only had one important update since Columbus Nova bought SOE.

 

[maniacalpha1-1]

The key question is this:

EverQuest Next was cancelled, but is this the end for new EverQuest games? Or are they starting over at the drawing board?

EQ1 and 2 are basically just one ongoing nostalgia trip with progression servers, and a few holdouts on Live keeping the expansions flowing. They won't return to prominence without a new game. Do they even have any worthwhile games in known development?

 

[Zenoth]

I suppose it's mainly a question of money, as usual. But EverQuest Next looked way too ambitious. I remember that SOE Live presentation (in 2013), it sounded too good to be true. Maybe they would have pulled it off though, who knows heh (doubt it).

 

[SunnyD]

After what happened with Vanguard:SOH - yeah, I know it wasn't really a sequel to Everquest in name - this was expected. Overpromise, underdeliver.

 

[MongGrel]

I suppose it's mainly a question of money, as usual. But EverQuest Next looked way too ambitious. I remember that SOE Live presentation (in 2013), it sounded too good to be true. Maybe they would have pulled it off though, who knows heh (doubt it).

I lost all trust in anything SOE well over a decade ago, myself.

 

[xantub]

As an EQ1 and EQ2 former player, EQNext didn't entice me one bit. Super Mario double jump, very few skills active (with half of the few depending on the weapon you're wielding), twitch combat... nothing at all like Everquest. Basically they just made some random game and put the name Everquest on it because they owned it.

 

[GoodRevrnd]

Smedley was an incompetent manager who just ran his mouth. Now he is replaced with Daybreak destroying the company and trying to squeeze blood out wherever they can, rather than making serious investments into new products.

 

[KMFJD]

Played some very early beta of Camelot Unchained today, a lot of fun, older slow style combat, very raw atm though but it was fun.

/they have a pvp night on fridays

 

[GoodRevrnd]

I think Camelot Unchained and Crowfall are literally the last only hopes for MMOs.

 

[norseamd]

Yeah Columbus Nova is draining the blood out of this company.

http://www.polygon.com/2016/2/5/10921418/h1z1-consoles-just-survive-king-of-the-kill-ps4-xbox-one

 

[norseamd]

I think Camelot Unchained and Crowfall are literally the last only hopes for MMOs.

What about Mortal Online?

 

[Fanatical Meat]

What about Mortal Online?

While I haven't tried in years maybe its changed but I doubt it.
Mortal Online was a complete turd. Thank god I waited for a free trial.

 

[Subyman]

I was a huge EQ fan in the late 90's and early 2000's. It was a great universe at the time, but being realistic, it is very, very generic and derivative. EQ2 was a nice trip down nostalgia lane for me, but I don't really care what comes out with the EQ name attached anymore.

Sad to see it canceled, I would have given it a shot. RIP EQ.

 

[Genx87]

I think Camelot Unchained and Crowfall are literally the last only hopes for MMOs.

Should we be worried City State made CUBE along side Camelot Unchained? Sounds a lot like Landmark.

 

[KMFJD]

Should we be worried City State made CUBE along side Camelot Unchained? Sounds a lot like Landmark.

I'm able to test Camelot, it will be going into beta1 testing shortly. It is still a long long way from being a playable game though...but there is steady progress

 

[Thebobo]

Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen?

 

[Eric1987]

I think BDO is literally the last only hope for MMOs.

Corrected.

 

[moonbogg]

I guess this makes it Everquest not next?

 

[norseamd]

I guess this makes it Everquest not next?

LOL

 

[maniacalpha1-1]

How is H1Z1 doing? If it's not going to be the next big, or at least stable, thing, then, what does Daybreak have to survive on now? If Pantheon were to actually reach launch, and turns out as the true EQ successor it seems to be, it could take away at least some of both the EQ Live players and some of the players who keep going back to each new Progression server.

 

[KMFJD]

How is H1Z1 doing? If it's not going to be the next big, or at least stable, thing, then, what does Daybreak have to survive on now? If Pantheon were to actually reach launch, and turns out as the true EQ successor it seems to be, it could take away at least some of both the EQ Live players and some of the players who keep going back to each new Progression server.

H1Z1 got turned into 2 separate games