Comments on: EverQuest’s 10th Anniversary Book

By: Tangurena

Tangurena — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:13:47 +0000

I loved Tweety’s rants. They are what got me motivated to be a guide – which I did for more than 2 years.

The reason the game endures is because of the players, so the book should also be about the players. I remember having the first Brady guide to EQ and it mostly sucked (it had lists of gear that were never in the game, like a banker’s box {a container that let you swap coin around like a banker}), so I bet their 10th anniversary book will suck too.

By: Tony

Tony — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:29:22 +0000

Yeh, can’t deny the staying power. I started playing between Luclin and PoP and the amount of change in the game has be huge (both for good and ill). I still think one of the things that keeps EQ going is the lack of server restriction based on your geographical location. The ‘net has shrunk the world and crushed geographical boundaries and then MMO producers seem intent on putting them back. It’s harder and harder to move to a major MMO with friends I made in different parts of the world, thanks to enforced geographical restrictions.

By: almagill

almagill — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:40:54 +0000

Ten years though.
TEN years.
I mean, in the game game, ten years, that’s like, what? Three lifetimes?

If Everquest was a dog it’d be older than Yoda.

And almost as wise.

By: Rooks

Rooks — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:08:18 +0000

There’s also a lot of the game’s history that’s worth telling, such as the plane of hate opening into Kithicor, when it happened, why it happened and how the community reacted to it. There’s the nightmare opening of the Gates of Discord and the mini-exodus that occured because of it. Then there was the invasion of Grobb. Or how about the uniqueness of some of the zones, such as the huge aggro range of the Plane of Fear (and the all-night corpse runs that ensued from it). I’d even like to hear more of the backstory about the zones, mini-stories about Mistmoore, Unrest, Befallen and so on. I’m a real sucker for the lore of the game.

Mind you, this all sounds like a project suited for the web rather than a book but it would make a fascinating read. It would also allow the possibility of video memories, such as raids from the original Veeshans Peak for example. I hope someone does something on these lines for the anniversary.

By: Tipa

Tipa — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:12:49 +0000

A book of EverQuest stories illustrated by alpha/beta/concept art and what not, along with the STORIES of the developers themselves, would be a valuable book and perhaps explain why people play EQ ten years later. It’s clear, though, that the compiler of this book is doing nothing more than what was done with those movie picture books in decades past, which just had stills from the movie alongside a very brief description of what was going on in the movie. All the kid movies had those back when, and maybe still do.

Do we need one for EQ? Probably not, and I guess I am thinking that making one cheapens EQ’s true legacy, a story which has (as far as I know) only existed on the rapidly disappearing message boards that were the cornerstones of the EQ community.

By: Genda

Genda — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:09:23 +0000

Ahh, the Shriners.

Three of my real life friends are Shriners, and in fact are the ones that got me into Everquest in the first place. They have some epic stories. The KK incident is legend on Emarr, but they had antics everywhere from Castle Mistmoore to the Plane of Mischief (where the Shriners were bound, of course.)

If you don’t know the stories of the shriners, it’s pretty hard to get you up to date, but Tipa’s link above will at least give you the flavor.

The stories of “burned woods,” Fansy, and “I’m waaaaaaaaaaaaaaad” also come to mind. (http://ancarett.com/eqhumour.html) read all four of those stories if you have ever played EQ.

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:35:01 +0000

There are as many points of view about everything that ever happened in EQ as there are people involved (and in fact, people not involved), I doubt you’d ever get people to agree on what really happened.

Would be interesting to try though.

Would probably cause the biggest flame fest in the history of the ‘net of course.