What Happened To EverQuest Next?

What are your thoughts on the cancellation of EverQuest Next? Were you hyped for its release?

I am disappointed. I feel like they were trying to do to much. Didn't have a clear vision. But I am still would have liked to see it try. I have no idea how players would react to such a game. If you can destroy the world can you build it too then its a different game.

Daybreak is shitty ! H1Z1 Player here :)

Really sad was looking forward to this game

I feel like they should not have made Landmark a separate game.  I always thought they should have made Landmark more like a module for EQN sort of like how Star Citizen handles its module, where as they build the game, the world that you get to explore and fight in gets bigger and bigger until the game is complete.  Now we will never have it.  :(

It was't fun?

Never played Any of the Everquest series. But this one seemed like a lot of fun! such a shame its discontinued. Are they ever going to continue and maybe finish the game for release? or did they cancel it completely.

eq next didnt even feel like a eq game. stick with 2

How does a company lose the EQ IP? Layoff all of their best developers and get rid of Dave that's how! Daybreak Games you suck!

Is this Minecraft?

I wanted to play this it would be so cool

they lied about the game and they couldn't get it done and sony got fed up with there bullshit and sold them

it just wasn't EQ is whas a weard WOW and modern ugly graphics.

It was the best MMO ever I played .... sad(((

Now I know why. I was a landscape architect and interior designer in Second Life. I loved the building tools in SL and had a massive inventory. My business partner and I had a successful castle building sales lot and romantic sim. The novelty wore off SL and I moved to EQ2 in 2015. I enjoy the RP and adventure portions of EQ2 over SL immensely. However, EQ2's building tools are very rudimentary and qualitative. SL's building tools looked like AutoCad lite to me. EQN would have been perfect. Adventure combined with excellent building tools. I'm sad as I was really looking forward to all of that, including destruction. :( .

It sounds like they were completely missing the point of what people enjoyed about the original Everquest. So much of the fun was meeting people, leveling up, getting stronger and having the world and all of it's mysteries slowly unlock for you. I can't imagine trying to craft a compelling in-game story and quest structure while also accommodating the fact that the game world itself is constantly changing because of player input.

Better I think to create a system for GM's or developers to drive dynamic events, both large and small, to add flavor to the game play when people log on. Asheron's Call did this really well.

i believe it. it was likely not so fun. I wonder what value a building is that takes effort to build and is easily destroyed by other players.

beta much?

in short  it was vapor wear  all hype and no  substance.

EQNext was already failing when Daybreak took over. You can't look at it as if everything was going great then Daybreak came along and ruined the development. Sony new it was a money pit and they sold off the company. Daybreak looked at what was completed and what still needed to be done and they, along with others knew it was not going to happen so they pulled the plug. Ohh and some of the "senior" devs that were let go. I can bet it went like something from Office Space where employees sat down with "the bobs" and were asked, what do you say you do here?

some company needs to perform a hostile takeover of Daybreak games and boot that idiotic president out on his ass where he belongs and re rename the company to Sony Online Entertainment what kind of a dumbass can ruin a franchise that has been ongoing almost as long as wow has if not longer. I've played both EverQuest 1 and Everquest 2 and I have no qualms about going back to either of them possibly in the future if they're still available . I also played Landmark and was waiting for next. I think that they had this planned from the start I can't not see this not planned this is just happening to Clockwork first they cancel next and then they cancel landmark and then I am absolutely positive that they have plans to cancel EverQuest 1 and 2 but they're going to do it overtime to make it seem like they tried to keep it going . not so we can see what they're doing. they're not going to fool anyone like I said pop that idiotic president out on his ass where he belongs before he screws over one of the greatest gaming franchises in history

Yeah i was really bumbe dabout EQ next. knew it was going to down hill after Columbus nova bought it! but now im hyped for ASHES OF CREATION! :) im funding that puppy! i need something to take me away from wow lol

im glad that this never made out, this would have trashed already ruined EQ franchise.
Original EQ and several of its expansions will live forever in my memories.

Poor Everquest :( Hope They Make Another Game, It Wouldn't Be The Same Without It.

EQNext is the only game where I have EVER given any consideration to a lawsuit for fraud (i bought one of the founder packs). What they did is wrong, if not legally, certainly ethically. The moment they fired Smokejumper (Georgeson), that was the end of EQNext. To say I'm pissed, even over a year later, would be an understatement.

Maybe No Man's Sky next? Relly wondering what's about it now tho it's not really dead yet

Thoughts. Bullshit
Reasons. Greed
I have being playing eq1 and 2 for nearly half my life!!! I feel so let down by it

day1 trailblazer here :D played landmark 24/7. i actually believe that they had to stop development because they were ashamed of the content quality produced by players vs their own stuff and figuring NEXT would become a 100% player creations gameworld. so they found a cheap excuse in " not being fun" actually saying it was unfun to see players create so much better stuff with an engine we just cant handle properly.

I haven't been able to play EverQuest II because of deteriorating mobility. EverQuest Next was going to be the next game I was going to play. For this game, I wanted to put forth effort in figuring out how to get back to gaming. I was so disappointed when I found out that Daybreak had ceased development!

As far as what went wrong, I think what went wrong was that they had too much ambition.

I love the idea of a sandbox world where the world changes as you do stuff in the game. However, there was one aspect that I didn't like. Arguably, it's one of the biggest aspects of sandbox gaming.

I didn't like the fact that you could destroy parts of the world. I don't like the idea that somebody can come into the beautifully rendered castle, pound it into dust, and there would no longer be a castle. One of the aspects of MMORPGs that draws me in is the beautiful virtual world and its buildings.

If you could destroy parts of the world, all it would take for somebody to ruin it for you would be for them to get bored and start destroying everything around you.

Otherwise, I like the idea that your actions affect the story. I like the idea of what you do during a quest might affect the next part of the storyline.

I also like that aggressive elements would have more on their mind than attacking your character!

This game would have sucked ass.  Another watered down version of EQ.  Pantheon will be the game to play.

I was in Landmark Alpha from day 1 and enjoyed it until the new owners dropped the prices of flags by 60% just a day or two after putting them in the marketplace, then refused to adjust my purchase of hundreds of dollars worth of flags, even though they had just officially “apologized” to the community for the initial high prices.

They wouldn’t adjust the sale, wouldn’t escalate my request ticket and didn’t care that they were going to lose this high-spending player over this raw deal, so I left. And I will never spend another penny with Daybreak again.

Ironically, they did me a favor because the game folded within the year, so they saved me a lot of money.

2020 and i'm still pissed off and hurt from its cancellation.. a true revolutionary step in the stale mmorpg genre.. this wasn't just another shiny coat of paint on top of a dead concept.. 2020 and all the current and coming mmorpg's are still just a new coat of paint.

I came here trying to track down an open sandbox for EQNext. Every path I take dead ends. I'm willing to pay money for this. Any ideas? Any links? TIA

I honestly think they had no intentions of releasing this. They failed twice to make EQIII by this point and it just seems like they made a pitch to sell people Landmark to recoup some of their losses and then they sold out to an acquisition firm.

SoE was terrible before Dey Break Games took over... i noticed a lot of people over the years seem to forget that... they were the masters of making great titles and then RUINING THEIR OWN LANDS. They mismanaged just about every IP they created. Well... not just about, they DID.

Late to this video, but EQ Next would have taken gaming away from the tired, overplayed model of loot, levels, upgrades, and vanity items built around a PvP framework. Too bad. Game designers need to get out more and look beyond what everyone else is doing and copying that. There are still aspects of Everquest I that go way beyond WoW's refined, but predictable gameplay.