Surely the golden era of MMORPGs should be sought in the last years of the 90s of the last century and the beginning of the 2000s, when Some legendary companies have crossed his path today. We’ve got Blizzard putting it on the market World of Warcraftto Microsoft with its Vanguard and other online experiments and, above all, to some gentlemen who called themselves SOE. That is, Sony Online Entertainment.
What had become of him?
It was during that period that SOE ruled with a certain iron fist thanks to a game that is now a legend the loose MMORPG: EverQuest. Launched in 1999, it did not officially reach Spain as such, but nevertheless managed to charm thousands of players who got lost in its maps and dungeons while they slept in the morning to adapt their schedules to the afternoon and night activity of the States United servers. .UU.
But it wasn’t until the summer of 2004 that surprisingly the announcement appeared that SOE was about to be launched Ever Quest 2. It happened suddenly, during E3 of that year, and was perceived by everyone as a hasty response to the already confirmed threat of launching World of Warcraft in the United States, then from there a battle broke out between players of the Sony title and those of Blizzard over which of the two was the more rolero and complex of everything. As if that war should decide the winner for the next few years.
And so it happened. Apparently the simplest, easiest and least MMORPG by definition has conquered the market and Ever Quest 2 it was left in the hands of a much smaller portion of players. Now when World of Warcraft is still receiving new expansions, and already without many subscribers, the old menace of SOE returns (in other hands) with new content for the title released in 2004.
come back with Renewal of Ro
In fact, just over a month since the beta release of Renewal of Ro, We already have the 19th content expansion of Ever Quest 2 in his little more than 18 years of life. A delivery that could make you fall in love again with one of the most iconic and representative online RPGs of the time, and which now focuses all the extra content on pure and hard exploration.
And how could it be otherwise, controversy pursues those who continue to play with the old EQ2what they accuse World of Warcraft have “much less focused” expansions. compared to those of the SOE game. As if that was a sales pitch.
In case you were an old adventurer of Ever Quest 2 at the moment and you have lost track of it, you should know with this new extra content Let’s go back to the Desierto de las Llamas which, as you will remember, we have already been able to visit within the first few package expansion released a few years ago. Now we will have to “excavate some new stories and explore additional ground”.
Be that as it may, it is surprising that he is still alive, one of the few opponents who World of Warcraft it became real when it appeared in 2004.
