EverQuest’s biggest fans are leading its revival

Live-service games and the companies that run them are in big trouble. Games and their developers are getting shut down and gutted, and publishers’ huge promises are dubious. Meanwhile, EverQuest, one of the original live-service games, is thundering back more than 25 years later.

EverQuest Legends is currently in preorder beta with an upcoming release date of July 28th. The original EverQuest was a foundational MMORPG from right around the time we started to define what a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game was. Legends is a reimagining of that MMORPG as it existed in 1999, when it was first released, before decades of expansions.

Legends is very much a nostalgia machine. And it was inspired by dedicated fans who have been preserving EverQuest for years. Now one of those fans is behind this official EverQuest project.

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