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Sony Online Games Will Let Players Upload Items And Get Paid For Them

Over the past couple of years, Sony Online Entertainment has transitioned all of their MMORPGs into free-to-play games, relying on microtransactions and a cash shop to make their money. Now, they’ve announced a plan that would let players make real-world money from SOE’s cash stores too.


And Now I’m A Frog. A Singing Demonic Frog

Earlier this week, Sony Online Entertainment revealed its new SOEmote technology, which enables EverQuest 2 players to map their facial expressions and mouth movements to their in-game character. This creeped out many people. I just had to try it.


Sony Wants MMO Players To Meet Each Other In Real Life

Sony has applied for a strange little patent that streamlines the process via which online friends in an MMO can meet up in the real world and become real friends.


After 13 Years, Original EverQuest Goes F2P

One of the longest-running subscription-based massively multiplayer online role-playing games has finally succumbed to the sweet, sweet lure of the microtranscation-based business model, as EverQuest celebrates its 13th anniversary by going free-to-play.


Ultima Online, EverQuest And World Of Warcraft Earn Their Place In The MMO Hall Of Fame

The MMO Hall of Fame was created to recognise massively multiplayer online games from 1996 on up for bringing “years of excitement to millions of fans”. Which games made it into the inaugural class of 2012?


Rest In Peace, EverQuest Online Adventures. We Hardly Knew Ye Were Still Operational

After nine years of operating in a quiet corner away from prying mainstream gaming eyes, the PlayStation 2-based EverQuest Online Adventures will cease to be come March 29, along with Cosmic Rift, Infantry and Star Chamber: The Harbinger Saga. Let us read up on these games on Wikipedia and then have a moment of silence in their memory.


You Know You Play Too Much EverQuest When These Jokes Are Still Funny 10 Years Later

These days you can tell you play too much of Sony Online Entertainment’s massively multiplayer online role-playing game EverQuest by the simple fact that you play it at all. Ten years ago, when hundreds of thousands of people played the game on a regular basis, there were different standards of measurement.


The Original EverQuest Goes Free-to-Play For Its 13th Birthday

After more than a decade of dedicated fans paying a monthly fee to adventure in the lands of Norrath, the massively multiplayer online role-playing game that got the MMORPG ball rolling back in 1999 is going free-to-play come March.


Everquest II Sees A 300% Surge In New Players After Going Free-to-Play

In video game years, Everquest II‘s like the great grandpa to newer MMOs like The Old Republic or Rift. Launched in 2004, it’s got a faithful community that’s still questing around on its servers but the game’s days of accruing new players month after month seems to have ended a while back.


The Is The Very Best Reason To Go Back To EverQuest II

EverQuest II ushers in a new age of player-created content with its new Dungeon Maker system, a ridiculously easy and entertaining way to amaze and kill your friends.


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