Fans expecting new
information on 'EverQuest Next' during this year's SOELive came away tonight
with a bittersweet announcement from SOE president John Smedley.
During tonight's SOELive
keynote address, Smedley explained that everything we've seen on EverQuest Next
thus far has been scrapped and the game is in the process of being reworked.
Given the turn of events, SOE will not be showing off EverQuest Next during
this year's SOELive. However, Mr. Smedley did promise attendees that not only
would EverQuest Next make an appearance at SOELive next year, it will also be
playable.
Why'd SOE scrap the work
done up to this point? Smedley noted that the team ultimately wasn't happy with
the game. EQ Next felt too 'evolutionary', more like an EverQuest 3 than what
SOE was going for. According to Smed, SOE 'changed the world' with the launch
of the original EverQuest, and they want the launch of EverQuest Next to be an
equally monumental moment in the MMO genre.
To that end, Smedley
promised that EverQuest Next would be the "world's largest sandbox",
with content delivered to players in an entirely new way. The team is being
lead by EverQuest staples such as Terry Michaels and Dave Georgeson and fans
were assured that they are intending on remaking Norrath into something unlike
anything players have seen before.
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