EverQuest Will Join The Ranks Of Free-To-Play MMOs This March

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Posted January 31, 2012 - By Adam Rosenberg

EverQuest Will Join The Ranks Of Free-To-Play MMOs

With 13 years behind it as of 2012, Sony Online Entertainment's long-running (longest-running?) MMO EverQuest is now getting set to open its doors to one and all with a newly announced free-to-play pricing model. The new format will launch in March, also the month of the game's 13-year anniversary, with the monthly $15 Gold subscription joined by a one-time $5 payout for Silver access or the completely free... er... Free access.

The news is confirmed in a community update from EverQuest producer Thom Terrazas, with the details of the coming change broken down in a new FAQ. The list of which features go with which access tier is fairly detailed, so I encourage fans and potential fans to read through them closely. You can also tune in this Thursday on February 2 for a Community Webcast discussing the F2P features; players are encouraged to submit questions on the game's Facebook or Twitter pages.

Source: EverQuest official website

Tags: MMO News, PC Gaming, Videogames

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Steel3685

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Posted: January 31, 2012 1:26 PM
Avalanche33

Come on everyone sitting in freeport looking for spirit of the wolf and maybe a group,dueling people was pretty good times. Agreed they needed alot more quests so it wasnt such a grind and needed raids but this was back in the day when most people never heard of a mmo. A+ for back then but now a days it would be an F but i might check it out if it was free to play.

Posted: January 31, 2012 12:06 PM
Cryptomaster420

@ Avalanche33 EQOA was the worse format of EQ it was like the DNF of its time
and cant wait havent played EQ I since 2003 hopefully they will let me keep my expansions aka LDoN , TPoP and TSoL to name the very few i had b4 i quit for EQ2 then WoW

Posted: January 31, 2012 9:15 AM
zeinternetz

Wait... What? Hasn't EQ2 been F2P for a long while now? And people still paid for EQ1? And now both this relics of the past will compete with one another in a F2P flooded market? This doesn't make any sense.

Posted: January 31, 2012 7:15 AM
Panda-chan

lolol 1999... good times.

Posted: January 31, 2012 6:11 AM
Avalanche33

What about EQOA?

Posted: January 31, 2012 6:08 AM