Everquest History, Mysteries, and More

[Lifebar]

This is the URL for the YouTube channel of Shawn Lord, former GM, content designer, game designer, etc. for EverQuest. He records interviews with the people who created EverQuest and I'm finding it super interesting. This might be old news, but I didn't see a thread on it in search.

EQ mysteries, spawn cycles, how zones got built, unfinished quests, their original intent with the game, all kinds of cool stuff. If you're interested I hope you find it as enjoyable as I did.


https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFl...mhSvB1Q/videos

[starkind]

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[loramin]

Nice. I added him to https://wiki.project1999.com/Videos.

If you really wanted to show off his stuff, you could make a new page for him, like the one for Michael's Shenaningans ... but just having him on the main videos page should be enough to get people to check him out.

[Mblake1981]

Originally Posted by loramin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Nice. I added him to https://wiki.project1999.com/Videos.

If you really wanted to show off his stuff, you could make a new page for him, like the one for Michael's Shenaningans ... but just having him on the main videos page should be enough to get people to check him out.

Both me and Jibartik had fan pages already.

https://www.project1999.com/forums/s...d.php?t=397229

https://www.project1999.com/forums/s...d.php?t=389051

[Lifebar]

I will play the shit out of M&M if it ends up as good as it sounds.

[loramin]

Originally Posted by Mblake1981 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Both me and Jibartik had fan pages already.

https://www.project1999.com/forums/s...d.php?t=397229

https://www.project1999.com/forums/s...d.php?t=389051

Sure but forum posts fade off the front page, and then no one ever sees them. The wiki is there anytime anyone wants to look for new EQ videos [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Jibartik]

Originally Posted by loramin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Sure but forum posts fade off the front page, and then no one ever sees them. The wiki is there anytime anyone wants to look for new EQ videos [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

So you admit it ruins the mystery by making solving it casual!

Or do you hate the thread and everquest [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Jibartik]

Originally Posted by Mblake1981 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Both me and Jibartik had fan pages already.

https://www.project1999.com/forums/s...d.php?t=397229

https://www.project1999.com/forums/s...d.php?t=389051

haha that is really looking great!

[Mblake1981]

Originally Posted by Jibartik [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

haha that is really looking great!

It is.. I am sorely conflicted. After 20 years being dedicated to this hobby, getting ass-raped by Microsoft and the whole Apple-inspired smart phone w/ social media debacle.. seeing all the old classics get the Indiana Jones treatment.. seeing something smart and interesting being reduced to idiot drool.. edit: Who else survived by making Little Caesar pizzas last two-days so they could save up pennies to purchase the new video card.. rent is expensive. I have personally sacrificed for a hobby that turned around and took a giant shit right on my face..

I am so bitter with this hobby. 20 damn years looking for a new EQ and when I am finally fed up with this bullshit they come along and make what I was interested in.

My EQ friends are dead or gone anyway, just something to witness. I don't think I need a new EQ, after watching New World go down in flames this hobby can't get much better for me.

[Danth]

Originally Posted by Mblake1981 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

...this hobby can't get much better for me.

I've said much the same, even with respect to P99 itself: The reality of aging and the trajectory of my own time spent on this hobby over the past decade (spoiler: trending gradually downwards) isn't likely to reverse itself any time soon. Some addition to P99 or some new as-yet unlaunched game could be the best thing since sliced bread and at best it'll be too late to do me any real good. By the time something like a Patheon or an M&M manages to launch I'll probably be neither able nor interested in doing much more than dabbling.

EQ was neither my first nor my personal favorite massively multiplayer online video game, but it represents the transition period when gaming began to shift from niche to mainsteam. It was the last of those types of games designed with small customer base sizes in mind (excepting those which deliberately chose to limit themselves like Shadowbane), where world building came first because they weren't too worried about losing an audience they didn't know they had. By the time DAOC and EQ's own expansions hit, and certainly by the time Warcraft hit, the market realized the scope of popularity for the genre and a lot of production was more of a sort of get-rich-quick dream rather than a passion project, coming with with the associated production and design compromises.

Danth