EverQuest celebrates birthday with $20 megapack

By Tim Surette, GameSpotPosted Mar 16, 2007 4:39 pm PT

Anniversary Edition of long-running MMO includes all EverQuest expansions for only $20; collection will be released April 23.

Twenty dollars may not buy much these days, but for fans of massively multiplayer online role-playing games, it'll soon buy them an entire world.

Sony Online Entertainment today announced that it is celebrating the eight-year anniversary of its flagship MMO EverQuest by releasing the EverQuest The Anniversary Edition collection on April 23. The pack will include EverQuest and its many expansions for $19.99.

SOE will also be releasing new in-game content beginning today. Among the planned additions are a scavenger hunt and "dozens of Luclin Fabled NPCs."

EverQuest II, with new graphics and features, was released in late 2004.

EverQuest, which was released eight years today, is rated T for Teen. For more information, read GameSpot's review.

67 Comments

  • srober76

    Posted May 12, 2007 2:32 pm PT

    Monks FD pulling, Warriors Tagging, Enchanters mezzing, these are the things I miss in todays MMO's. I hate the newer dumb down combat systems in todays MMO's

  • ox28

    Posted Apr 23, 2007 12:17 am PT

    I just started EQ in december i liked it so much by february i had bought all the expansions too bad for me i guess if i wasnt so impatient i coulda got them alot cheaper. Ive had loads of fun tho playing,its like a second life for me,I highly recommend EQ to anyone if ya have any questions play the demo first then decide if you wanna pay to play. Hope ta see ya soon. Bigox (Firona Vie).

  • SmallPower

    Posted Mar 19, 2007 2:51 pm PT

    and it'll only take five years (at $15 a month) to actually play through all of them, hell of a deal

  • Unstoppable_1

    Posted Mar 19, 2007 12:10 pm PT

    Ahh Everquest. I heard so much about ye. Yet the slow loading between zones on my old Pentium 3 was more than a nuissance. Perhaps now it would be a good time to visit ye. Alas there is far too much content for me to swallow. It would take me a decade to traverse the massive world ye is. No thank you may ye have a good funeral. LOL jk. I don't think Everquest will ever die out in the near future. It has a hard core fan base. I quit after trying it for two weeks. Just not my type of game.

  • Mezame

    Posted Mar 19, 2007 10:17 am PT

    Same for me, but only with World of Warcraft.

  • bcolter

    Posted Mar 19, 2007 9:23 am PT

    I think Everquest sucks... bored me to tears

  • Vraeth

    Posted Mar 19, 2007 7:25 am PT

    I have to disagree with Diernes, while I enjoyed EQ immensely (gave it a good 3 years), WoW isn't just a minor improvement on EQ. The game only borrows a few ideas from EQ, such as instances (LDoN), but he core gameplay mechanics are much more inspired by Diablo 2, although more complicated. Leveling in the game is easy, running dungeons on the other hand requires teamwork and coordination, especially in BC. Oh, but I do agree, way too late to get in on EQ since there are virtually no low level toons anymore on most servers. The deal is nice for people who need a cheap way to catch up on some expansions.

  • spelledarn

    Posted Mar 19, 2007 3:21 am PT

    Double-click monster to death. Wait for respawn. Repeat. >>> The idea behind every mmog.

  • Diernes

    Posted Mar 18, 2007 10:33 pm PT

    Everquest is a classic. But its far to late to start playing now you would be insane to attempt it. As to the WOW advocates. That game is just a everquest clone dumbed down for the blizzard fanboi's. WOW did nothing better than EQ just ripped off all its idea's and placed it in a package accessable to morons. An Easy and boring yawnfest, and one of the most overated games of all time.

  • racerx737

    Posted Mar 18, 2007 5:54 pm PT

    I've never really cared for MMOs, it sounds like a good deal though I'm not sure how many people would go back and play an 8 year old MMO for very long.

  • brutyl

    Posted Mar 18, 2007 3:31 pm PT

    EverQuest was such a great game back in the day, had loads of fun playing it. Although, I don't see why anyone would start playing it now... it's kind of late.

  • travlr74

    Posted Mar 18, 2007 12:58 pm PT

    WoW didn't do it better they just simplified it for the masses and dumbed it down so anybody could play

  • decoy1978

    Posted Mar 18, 2007 12:24 pm PT

    I have to agree EQ was the one that put MMO's on the map. WoW just did them better. But 20 for all the xpansions is a great deal.

  • zeecorner

    Posted Mar 18, 2007 12:09 pm PT

    damn thats cheap, that actually seems about fair though for that old a game.

  • Homes225

    Posted Mar 18, 2007 11:44 am PT

    Twenty dollars for the win.

  • grassgreener12

    Posted Mar 18, 2007 7:50 am PT

    Everquest was a revolutionary MMO when it came out, but in this day and age, it fails in comparison to WoW or Guild Wars ( i dont like guild wars that much anyway). most ideas for wow came from Everquest, but wow did them better..

  • uberjannie

    Posted Mar 18, 2007 7:31 am PT

    I tire of MMORPG's. Make something innovating for once!

  • Eararaldor

    Posted Mar 18, 2007 6:45 am PT

    Interesting, but surely this would effect the subscribers of Everquest 2? Would'nt it be better to merge the two as the gameplay is very similar. There also rumours that SOE, will be providing the PS3 with some MMO's, I'm just waiting for the anouncement of Everquest being on PS3

  • Hawaiianc

    Posted Mar 18, 2007 3:16 am PT

    oh i thought there was going to put it on the ps3.... oh well

  • MASTERCHIEFUSMA

    Posted Mar 18, 2007 12:11 am PT

    Everquest is still good, glad its gone this far

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