1) Be an EverQuest player of any level, experience, anything. This is the tough step.

2) There is no step 2.

3) Go to WordPress.com or Blogger.com and make a blog. It’s free. Hardest part is coming up with a name. I just went through EverQuest zones until I found one that wasn’t taken. I wanted Freeport or Qeynos :)

4) Every couple of days, post about what you’re doing in the game. Just posting something like “We checked out Oceangreen Hills today. Now I can’t decide if I hate bears or zombies more.” is enough. That’s it. “Whole guild was down in the new Kaesora xping. Great drops. XP, not so much.” You don’t need to write a book or include a million pictures — unless you want to :)

5) After a couple of weeks, post comments or send email to every MMO blog you read asking them to link to your site.

This works for Asheron’s Call and Dark Age of Camelot, too. And Saga of Ryzom and — and for any game that is still a lot of fun but doesn’t get a lot of coverage. People WANT to read about what you’re doing!

If I type “EverQuest Blog” into Google, I get pages and pages of plat seller spam, sites like Ten Ton Hammer and Warcry reblogging SOE press releases and stuff. But one thing I don’t find are actual blogs about people who are playing EverQuest.

I don’t even find THIS blog on such a list. It’s bizarre and backwards to me that I can’t find anyone — including ME — blogging about actually playing the game. I know it’s old, but I see bunches of people in game all the time, so I know there must be SOME people blogging about it.

Sure, EQ discussion has traditionally been on the community message boards and on the SOE forums and, of course, on guild message boards (which are usually closed to the general public). So there’s undoubtedly a lot of talk about EQ that just doesn’t appear on Google. Message boards are notorious for not being friendly to Google.

Anyway. There’s always the chance that you’re an EverQuest blogger or read other EQ blogs if you’re reading this one. So… what’s the URL? Because I’d REALLY would like to read about the adventures of other people in the game that really did more than any other to shape the MMOs that followed it.