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Platform Win, Mac Publisher Sony Online Entertainment Developer 989 Studios Release Date 03/16/1999

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Tickets now on sale for SOE Live 2013

By Dave Tach on Apr 25, 2013 04.25.13

Tickets are now available for SOE Live 2013, Sony Online Entertainment's annual community fan event, according to a press release from the company. Tickets for the event, which will be held at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas from Aug. 1-4, are available through the SOE Live website. Early registration is available through May 22, offering discounted tickets at $39 (regularly $49) for Friday and Saturday passes, $99 for an evening pass and $129 (regularly $149) for an all-access pass. According to Sony, rooms are available for $79 on weeknights and $129 on weekends. Games on hand will include DC Universe Online, Dragon's Prophet, EverQuest, EverQuest 2, Free Realms, PlanetSide 2, PoxNora, Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures, Legends of Norrath and Vanguard: Saga of Heroes....

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EverQuest turns 14 years old this weekend, free-to-play restrictions loosened

By Michael McWhertor on Mar 15, 2013 03.15.13

Sony Online Entertainment's landmark MMO EverQuest will celebrate its 14th anniversary this weekend on March 16, with the publisher hosting a series of player events timed with the game's latest milestone. Five temporary player-created missions, new epic ornamentation quests and a chance to revisit previous' years anniversary content are now available in the massively multiplayer online game. Those festivities have already begun for stalwart EverQuest fans, with some lasting until April 26. SOE also announced that the Shadow of Fear game update for the original EverQuest is slated to go live mid-April, adding two zones (Chelsith Reborn, Plane of Shadow), new spells and new quests and missions. Players accepted into last year's Rain of Fear beta will have the opportunity to sample the...

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Original EverQuest designer Brad McQuaid rejoins the team

By Dave Tach on Mar 11, 2013 03.11.13

Original EverQuest designer Brad McQuaid has rejoined the massively multiplayer online game's development team, according to McQuaid's recent post on the game's official forums. His return to EverQuest comes after a 12-year absence and will allow him to work on features that date back to the 13-year-old MMO's launch. "When I was given the opportunity to return to the team it was something I just had to do!" he wrote. "I started playing right away and got a paladin into his mid-30s. I found, in addition to all of the great new features and [user interface] elements, that the game, at its core, was still very much the [EverQuest] I was involved with. In fact, some of my first work as a game designer on the team will be working on areas that have been alluded to since launch. I can't...

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EverQuest and EverQuest 2 adding more customization options for free-to-play accounts next week

By Alexa Ray Corriea on Mar 07, 2013 03.07.13

Sony Online Entertainment will change free-to-play restrictions for its MMORPGs EverQuest and EverQuest 2 next week, offering more content to players with free-to-play and limited subscription accounts. Sony currently offers two paid subscriptions, Silver and Gold, and a free-to-play option for both titles. Silver level members have restricted character customization choices, while Gold members have instant access to all content. Beginning next week, EverQuest and EverQuest 2 Free and Silver account holders will have unobstructed access to all classes and races when building avatars — currently, the bottom two subscription options only grant access to four of the game's 16 races and four of its 16 classes (there are 20 total races and 25 total classes in EverQuest 2). Characters...

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SOE Live 2013 will take place in Las Vegas from Aug 1 to Aug 4, 2013

By Jenna Pitcher on Feb 07, 2013 02.07.13

Sony Online Entertainment's annual community fan event, SOE Live 2013, will take place at Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas on Aug. 1 to Aug. 4, 2013, the company announced today. Attendees will have the opportunity to check out EverQuest Next, the upcoming title in the EverQuest franchise. Polygon reported on Sony Online Entertainment president, John Smedley, as saying that it will be the "largest sandbox-style MMO ever designed" and they're reinventing, to a degree, what an MMO AI is. Other free-to-play titles at SOE Online 2013 will include DC Universe Online, Dragon's Prophet, EverQuest, EverQuest 2, Free Realms, PlanetSide 2, PoxNora, Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures and Vanguard: Saga of Heroes. SOE Live includes social events, developer panel discussions so...

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SOE president defends free-to-play model, says Zynga did a 'terrible disservice' to model's reputation

By Dave Tach on Dec 17, 2012 12.17.12

Sony Online Entertainment president John Smedley defended the free-to-play model but said that Zynga's implementation has done a "terrible disservice" to Western audiences, according to an interview with PC Gamer. Zynga is to blame for "the reputation that [the free-to-play model] got from early in its life, especially in terms of social games," Smedley said. "I think Zynga has done free-to-play a terrible disservice because many of their releases are monetisation products — not games," Smedley said. "The truth is that now there are loads of really great free-to-play games, including ours, and I think PlanetSide is now a part of the hardcore community's free-to-play library." Smedley pointed to the Asian free-to-play game community as an example of the pricing model's upside....

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PlanetSide 2 will allow accounts to share purchases, based on player requests

By Dave Tach on Nov 30, 2012 11.30.12

PlanetSide 2, Sony Online Entertainment's just-launched MMO first-person shooter, will allow players to move Station Cash purchases between characters on the same account, the game's creative director, Matt Higby, told Massively. According to Higby, player feedback convinced the developer to add the feature, but Sony Online Entertainment will have to test it before adding it to the game. "It's just a matter of how long it's going to take to get it right." "It's just a matter of how long it's going to take to get it right," Higby said. "The good news is that it will be retroactive, so any items that you did buy will automatically go across your entire account once we put it in." The only caveat to the impending system concerns faction-specific items, which will not be transferable...

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  • Windows
    • Released 03/16/1999
    • Publisher Sony Online Entertainment
    • Developer 989 Studios
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    • Publisher Sony Online Entertainment
    • Developer 989 Studios
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