#EverQuest 25th Anniversary

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EverQuest Starting Points - Under Qeynos in the Aquaduct

I’ve briefly written about Qeynos, the first city of Norrath, at least in my heart.  But I cannot move further afield until we get to the bottom of the city, for underneath the city lays the Qeynos Aquaducts. Qeynos Aquaduct System While there was a whole front yard of mobs to work on before north Qeynos, snakes, skeletons, beetles, a few gnolls, interspersed with a few higher level mobs…

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Fippy Hat in both EverQuest and EverQuest II

Why does the EverQuest hat seem to be more detailed with a higher poly count compared to the EverQuest II version?

Check out the ears and snout.

I even thought they might have mixed up the images but that's an EQ human on the left and that's a Kerran from EQII on the right. (Kerran are not a playable race in EQ.)

It's a Fippy Hat mystery... <X-files theme in the background>

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Happy Birthday EverQuest!

it’s a celebration!!!

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For EverQuest's 25th Anniversary! It's been a while...

Reference pose: AdorkaStock

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Maxembert the Fiesty! Available Jan 2024 as Year of Darkoaw: An Everquest Celebration kicks off celebrating the 25th anniversary of Everquest and 20 years of Everquest 2

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EverQuest's 25th anniversary today

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And the live servers are free to play. For old time progression servers you need a subscription, though.

Just in case you want to come back.

Almost 25 years old, Everquest is about to launch its 30th expansion...

I find that to be absolutely amazing

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EverQuest 25th Anniversary!

Reference pose by: AdorkaStock

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EverQuest marks its 25th anniversary -- 84 original characters are still playing the game

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Celebrating the 25th anniversary in 2020 of A Goofy Movie, we are happy to welcome Jason Marsden and Bill Farmer as featured guests to MomoCon 2020! You’ve seen him, you’ve heard him. Lending his voice to countless characters in animation, feature films, video game, commercials, apps and more, Jason Marsden has been working full force in the entertainment biz since he was 12 years young. In the 90s he was a familiar face on such shows as “Boy Meets World”, “Full House”, and “Step by Step”. In voice over, Jason can be heard most notably as Max, Goofy’s son in “A Goofy Movie”. Marsden provided the voice for Haku, the mysterious boy/dragon in Hayao Miyazaki’s, Academy Award Winning, “Spirited Away”. Every Halloween, we bet you’ve heard him as Thackery Binx in Disney’s “Hocus Pocus”. He’s voiced many popular characters including Chester in “Fairly Odd Parents”, Impulse/Kid Flash in “Young Justice”, reporter, Snapper Carr in “Justice League”, Duke in “GI JOE: Renegades”, Tino Tontini in Disney’s “The Weekenders”, as well as some well-known felines: Kovu in “Lion King 2”, and Nermal in “The Garfield Show”. Bill Farmer is an American voice actor and comedian, who is known for his role of being the current voice of the Disney character Goofy since 1987. He is also the current voice of Pluto and Horace Horsecollar. Farmer’s very first voice over audition was for Goofy. When he auditioned for the voice, he studied the way the original actor Pinto Colvig performed as Goofy in the classic cartoons. He studied the hilarious laugh and the distinctive “gawrsh”. He inherited the voice of Goofy (and also Pluto) around the same time Tony Anselmo inherited Donald Duck and Wayne Allwine and Russi Taylor did likewise for Mickey and Minnie Mouse, respectively. Other significant characters he has played include Yosemite Sam, Sylvester and Foghorn Leghorn in the movie Space Jam (1996). He has also done several guest voices, both on TV, including The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy and in video games, including the Destroy All Humans! series, Namco’s Tales of Symphonia, where he voiced Governor-General Dorr, in Square Enix’s Kingdom Hearts series reprising the role of Goofy, Detective Date in the SEGA game Yakuza, Captain Wedgewood and Frill Lizard in Ty the Tasmanian Tiger, many voices on EverQuest II, Cletus Samson, Floyd Sanders, Jeff Meyers and Ryan LaRosa in the video game Dead Rising and Sam and others in the cult classic adventure game Sam & Max Hit the Road. Bill Farmer still regularly performs comedy routines at the Laugh Factory.

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How EverQuest survives in the era of Fortnite and Apex Legends

It might feel like battle royale games have been around forever, but games like Fortnite and PUBG are whippersnappers next to the MMO that started them all: EverQuest. The massively multiplayer online RPG, oft-credited as the inspiration behind the juggernaut that is World of Warcraft - now widely seen as one of the best MMOs of all time - has had 20 years of fantastical questing, dungeon crawling, and friendship making. Not long after releasing the 25th expansion, EverQuest: The Burning Lands in December 2018, developer Daybreak is celebrating two decades of EverQuest by inviting its dedicated fan base to travel back in time to the game’s inception. On top of a bonus XP period and a new open-world zone, the launch of the Selo and Mangler progression servers shows how EverQuest is moving forward by looking back. Daybreak has made use of nostalgia as a powerful tool in maintaining a steady group of active players who want their magical experience to remain just as it did in 1999. But how do you expand and even compete with the other hobby games today with a game that looks and feels the way it did 20 years ago? We spoke to EverQuest executive producer Holly Longdale about the challenges of staying relevant in the online gaming space and what’s in store for the future of the MMO that started it all. from https://www.pcgamesn.com/everquest/everquest-20th-anniversary

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EverQuest Starting Points - The Halflings of Rivervale

Rivervale is the halfling home town, where those barefoot little mooks start their journey in Norrath. Halflings are, of course, the hobbits of Tolkien lore… except only hobbits, wizards, and authorized agents of the Tolkien estate use the word “hobbits,” such that TSR was sued by the latter for using the word “hobbit” (along with “ent” and “balrog”) in early printings of Dungeons & Dragons, so…

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EverQuest 25th Anniversary Game Stats

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The EverQuest Teek and Tormax Progression Servers are Live!

The promised time locked progression servers for the EverQuest 25th anniversary went live yesterday without apparent incident. Teek and Tormax arrive Earlier in the week I gave Daybreak a poke when I mentioned that the Cataclysm Classic launch was unlike some of the Daybreak launches, with a projected go live time and an actual go live that sometimes arrives many hours later.  But the EverQuest…

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EverQuest Starting Points - Butcherblock and Kaladim

One of the interesting aspects of old EverQuest, something else borrowed from TorilMUD and in turn used by WoW (even as it was skipped by EverQuest II which had just two cities, each with several racial ghettos) was the fact that every race had their own distinct hometown to start in. Except humans, who had two, Qeynos and Freeport, because they run the place and you all suffer under the boot of…

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EverQuest Announces 25th Anniversary Special Rules Servers, Teek and Tormax

It was always on the EverQuest roadmap to launch at least one new special rules server this year in order to help celebrate the 25th anniversary of the game. EverQuest Anniversary Time They had been slotted in for a may launch on the somewhat bloated 2024 roadmap. The EverQuest 2024 Roadmap If that image is hard to read I have it broken out in detail in a post from earlier this year. Last week…