EverQuest Next: Cancelled

[Schnappi]

To Our Daybreak Community,

I’m writing today to let you know that, after much review and consideration, Daybreak is discontinuing development of EverQuest Next.

For the past 20 years EverQuest has been a labor of love. What started as a deep passion of ours, as game creators, grew into a much larger passion shared by you, millions of players and Daybreakers alike. Watching EverQuest’s ability to entertain and bring people together has inspired and humbled us. It’s shaped our culture and has emboldened us to take aggressive risks with our game ideas and products. When we decided to create the next chapter in the EverQuest journey, we didn’t aim low. We set out to make something revolutionary.

For those familiar with the internals of game development, you know that cancellations are a reality we must face from time to time. Inherent to the creative process are dreaming big, pushing hard and being brutally honest with where you land. In the case of EverQuest Next, we accomplished incredible feats that astonished industry insiders. Unfortunately, as we put together the pieces, we found that it wasn’t fun. We know you have high standards when it comes to Norrath and we do too. In final review, we had to face the fact that EverQuest Next would not meet the expectations we – and all of you – have for the worlds of Norrath.

The future of the EverQuest franchise as a whole is important to us here at Daybreak. EverQuest in all its forms is near and dear to our hearts. EverQuest and EverQuest II are going strong. Rest assured that our passion to grow the world of EverQuest remains undiminished.

Yours truly,

Russell Shanks
President, Daybreak Games

https://www.daybreakgames.com/news/d...uest-next-2016

[Necabo]

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

https://www.daybreakgames.com/news/d...uest-next-2016

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[Rec]

That will teach those fucks to abandon the holy trinity

[Breeziyo]

Can't say I didn't see it coming. Still sad.

[Blitzers]

Damn, it just wasn't fun. No shit. Maybe these assholes should come talk to some p99ers and find out how to make a game.

[this user was banned]

https://www.pantheonmmo.com/

Sony/Daybreak's MMO PC based franchise is gone, this is probably the last hope for something like EQ since this is where Brad McQuaid moved on to. Let's pray it doesn't become another Vanguard...

[AzzarTheGod]

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https://www.pantheonmmo.com/

Sony/Daybreak's MMO PC based franchise is gone, this is probably the last hope for something like EQ since this is where Brad McQuaid moved on to. Let's pray it doesn't become another Vanguard...

Vanguard was a great game.

EQ:Next was dogshit. Thank god the beast is dead.

[maskedmelon]

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

Vanguard was a great game.

EQ:Next was dogshit. Thank god the beast is dead.

ATG speaks truth.

EQ was great.

EQ2 was also great, oddly.

Vanguard was great.

The SoE fuckwits ruined each in pursuit of a foreign playerbase.

Pantheon will be awesome. And so will the VG emu once it is complete, can't wait for that ^^.

[AenorVZ]

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

Vanguard was a great game.

EQ:Next was dogshit. Thank god the beast is dead.

[Daywolf]

Well with Smedly out, it was a given.
DBG wants to make cellphone games, EQ:N dev cost would cut into that potential milking. Investment and return.