EverQuest: Dragons of Norrath Announced

nam37 · 01-12-2005, 11:17 AM

http://www.gamedaily.com/pc/article/...2&game_id=3434

Quote:

Even more new zones, creatues and content for fans of the popular EverQuest MMORPG.

Sony Online Entertainment Inc. (SOE), a worldwide leader in massively multiplayer online gaming, today announced EverQuest: Dragons of Norrath, a new expansion for the incredibly popular PC Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG), EverQuest. EverQuest: Dragons of Norrath is scheduled to be available at retail and for digital download from Sony Online Entertainment for U.S. $29.99 in February 2005 with a special incentive price for U.S. and European consumers who pre-order and digitally download directly from Sony Online Entertainment.

"The EverQuest development team continues to deliver new content, adventures and features in yet another thrilling expansion pack for the world of EverQuest," said Michael Lustenberger, vice president of marketing, Sony Online Entertainment. "Combining the power of the new graphics engine and nostalgic new storylines, EverQuest: Dragons of Norrath offers a beautiful new world and challenging new quests sure to please both new and veteran EverQuest players alike."

EverQuest: Dragons of Norrath returns EverQuest to its original foundation with appearances from a familiar cast of characters who will find themselves at the forefront of events transpiring across the world. Featuring new lands with enhanced graphics, bold new storylines, updated creatures including goblins, drakes and the ominous Frost Giant, and all-new guild management tools, EverQuest: Dragons of Norrath is the next great expansion pack for the fantasy adventure that is EverQuest. Make ready with new features such as the ability to regenerate your mana/health before a battle, easier inventory access via a potion belt, and the ability and to quickly swap pre-arranged weapons sets using a bandolier. All-new guild hall management tools allow players to easily ready their guild for encounters! EverQuest: Dragons of Norrath is bursting with new adventures and features for players of all levels.

About EverQuest: Dragons of Norrath

A series of events has transpired across the world of Norrath and the familiar faces of Firiona Vie and her nemesis Lanys T'Vyl return to find themselves at the forefront of these events. Unbeknownst to them, a dark influence has seeped into the world of Norrath causing new tensions to arise and conflicts to intensify as the dawn of a new age emerges. The Age of War is upon the people of Norrath and heroes return in this ultimate, unending battle between good and evil. EverQuest: Dragons of Norrath includes the following features:

Feature Set:

New Zones, Creatures and Content - From Lavastorm to the Thundercrest Isles, adventure in graphically enhanced zones with all new themes. Brave challenging new quests, discover new treasures, and battle new NPC's, including drakes, goblins and fierce dragons.
New Interactive World Map - A full color interactive map of the world allows players to point-and-click from a world view down to a zone view of the traditional line maps
Player Barter System - Allows players to set up their own method of giving platinum or items in exchange for other items.
Potion Belt - Allows for quick use of inventory items.
Bandolier Equip - Lets characters have two sets of pre-arranged weapons for each hand.
New Spells, Tradeskills, and Recipes.

All-New Guild Hall Management Tools:

Guild Halls - An instanced guild hall for guild members to meet and prepare for playing.
Guild Bank- Bank slot for storage of items accessible by all designated members of a guild.
Guild Stone - Allows guild members to easily port to the Instanced Guild Hall.
Mana/health Regen Pool - Allows players to easily regenerate their mana and health in preparation for battle while in the guild hall.
Mass Corpse Summoning Altar - Allows guilds to summon guild corpses en masse to the altar room.
Guild Portal - Allows guild members to purchase the ability to have a persistent port to pre-determined areas around the world.
Guild Tradeskill Objects - Various tradeskill tools are located in the guild hall for easy access by guild members.
Guild 'Looking for Members' Tool - Allows guilds to recruit by placing persistent "ads" on bulletin boards, search for player characters who match guild criteria and send in-game emails to those members.
Players 'Looking for Guild' Tool - Allows players to find guilds recruiting members.
Buff timers - Allows guild members to suspend buff timers while in guild halls.

The new expansion will be downloadable via the EverQuest Station Store for U.S. $29.99 (plus tax where applicable). A special incentive price will be available to consumers who pre-order and digitally download direct from Sony Online Entertainment. Additionally, retailers will be offering a boxed version that will carry a suggested retail price of $29.99, which includes a special in-box item and in-game item.

NAM37

Burning_Samurai · 01-12-2005, 11:26 AM

Thats a fucking joke, right?

Tuco · 01-12-2005, 11:26 AM

Sounds cool.

Phoenix · 01-12-2005, 11:26 AM

Those new guild features look pretty interesting.

The rest = same old stuff.

Cybsled · 01-12-2005, 11:58 AM

Lanys is back again?

I was pretty certain she was killed by Innoruk after she failed with her plans to remake that super staff during that Velious-era GM event.

Ah well whatever ;P

I might be interested...but they'll be NPCs and not played by the original actors who'd remember the old school GM events involving them ;p

And laf at the guild halls. Well, only took them close to 6 years but they finally did it ;P Now all they have to deal with it the Qeynos house renter ;P

Fammaden · 01-12-2005, 12:04 PM

Quote:

Buff timers - Allows guild members to suspend buff timers while in guild halls.

That feature would have been great around 2001 or so. Most of those guild changes sound like more dumbing down that will probably be bugged and unusable for months anyway.

0hz · 01-12-2005, 12:27 PM

They forgot the guild hall monster bell which will summon a random uber to be fought inside the guild hall once every 24 hours.

Kaljin · 01-12-2005, 12:30 PM

Actually that expansion doesn't look so bad, maybe a bit late tho.

The Bog · 01-12-2005, 12:34 PM

SONY ARE SUCH FUCKING ASSHOLES I MEAN LOOK AT THIS SHIT IT SUCKS I MEAN SHIT WHAT THE FUCK.

Magnum PI · 01-12-2005, 12:38 PM

Of course its too late. Hell who would buy that game today and expect to hit 70 or whatever anytime soon. That's the killer to EQ1...no one starting out today will have any real grouping opportunity to get anywhere since 99.9% of the servers are already 60 to 70. That game is a slowly dying monolith, I give it till 2008 or sooner till it breathes its last.

0hz · 01-12-2005, 12:44 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Doc
Of course its too late. Hell who would buy that game today and expect to hit 70 or whatever anytime soon. That's the killer to EQ1...no one starting out today will have any real grouping opportunity to get anywhere since 99.9% of the servers are already 60 to 70. That game is a slowly dying monolith, I give it till 2008 or sooner till it breathes its last.

I'd put money on EQ being around long after that. It's hard to predict exactly but by this time some people have surely spent 2+ years in game. It's going to be very hard to let that go.

When it does go, it will be a move to force players into a newer game with a higher profit margin...Not due to a lack of interest.

St BB · 01-12-2005, 01:29 PM

Lame comment first. You gotta play with the acronym for any EQ expansion. Dragons of Norrath, Everquest...DONE...

OK, seriously. Best of luck to them, those that are still playing will probably be happy with this. All that is really left for players is guild oriented objectives anyway. That's what's keeping most of their remaining playerbase there. They use everquest more for hanging with friends they have known for a long time than for its content. So the expansion is focusing on making that easier.

Gonna be interesting to see how they make the new dragons. There hasn't been a new dragon since Quarm that uses the new models, at least that I have heard about.

Suineg · 01-12-2005, 01:38 PM

And the best part of this whole thing is them trying to squeeze the EQ2 type graphics into the dying EQ1 engine.

Enough already just give up.

Go look on the webpage and see the pure and utter shit that they made the dragons look like.

Brutul Tarew Marr · 01-12-2005, 01:40 PM

OMG the ENGINE is DYING! IT'S DYING! Poor engine.

Jimmee · 01-12-2005, 01:58 PM

Hay gusy, everquest is being dumbed down, lol sony sux for dumbing eq down. Fuck them for making progress on the game. Now i'm going to get three levels in wow

(Sarcasm by the way)

Sounds good, and the quest leading up to it was/is quite entertaining to do, though revamped ToFS is a bit much.

01-12-2005, 11:26 AM	#2 (permalink)
Burning_Samurai Registered User Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 411 +0 Internets	Thats a fucking joke, right? __________________

01-12-2005, 11:58 AM	#5 (permalink)
Cybsled Registered User Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 9,261 +14 Internets	Lanys is back again? I was pretty certain she was killed by Innoruk after she failed with her plans to remake that super staff during that Velious-era GM event. Ah well whatever ;P I might be interested...but they'll be NPCs and not played by the original actors who'd remember the old school GM events involving them ;p And laf at the guild halls. Well, only took them close to 6 years but they finally did it ;P Now all they have to deal with it the Qeynos house renter ;P __________________ Training the citizens of Norrath from 1999-2003!

01-12-2005, 12:30 PM	#8 (permalink)
Kaljin Time to play the game! Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: In your mind Posts: 160 -1 Internets	Actually that expansion doesn't look so bad, maybe a bit late tho. __________________ Looking for the MMO promised land.

01-12-2005, 12:34 PM	#9 (permalink)
The Bog The troll who sold the world Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: State College, PA Posts: 2,699 -1 Internets	SONY ARE SUCH FUCKING ASSHOLES I MEAN LOOK AT THIS SHIT IT SUCKS I MEAN SHIT WHAT THE FUCK. __________________ Bogfather - Blood Elf Rogue, Aerie Peak

01-12-2005, 12:38 PM	#10 (permalink)
Magnum PI Closing in on Makata Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: USA Posts: 1,180 -28 Internets	Of course its too late. Hell who would buy that game today and expect to hit 70 or whatever anytime soon. That's the killer to EQ1...no one starting out today will have any real grouping opportunity to get anywhere since 99.9% of the servers are already 60 to 70. That game is a slowly dying monolith, I give it till 2008 or sooner till it breathes its last. __________________

01-12-2005, 11:26 AM	#3 (permalink)
Tuco Forum Janitor Join Date: May 2002 Location: Detroit Posts: 8,272 +16 Internets	Sounds cool.

01-12-2005, 12:27 PM	#7 (permalink)
0hz Bigger, better, blacker. Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 364 +0 Internets	They forgot the guild hall monster bell which will summon a random uber to be fought inside the guild hall once every 24 hours.

01-12-2005, 01:29 PM	#12 (permalink)
St BB Registered User Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Brooklyn NY Posts: 45 -1 Internets	Lame comment first. You gotta play with the acronym for any EQ expansion. Dragons of Norrath, Everquest...DONE... OK, seriously. Best of luck to them, those that are still playing will probably be happy with this. All that is really left for players is guild oriented objectives anyway. That's what's keeping most of their remaining playerbase there. They use everquest more for hanging with friends they have known for a long time than for its content. So the expansion is focusing on making that easier. Gonna be interesting to see how they make the new dragons. There hasn't been a new dragon since Quarm that uses the new models, at least that I have heard about.

01-12-2005, 01:38 PM	#13 (permalink)
Suineg Registered User Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: San Diego, CA Posts: 1,809 -8 Internets	And the best part of this whole thing is them trying to squeeze the EQ2 type graphics into the dying EQ1 engine. Enough already just give up. Go look on the webpage and see the pure and utter shit that they made the dragons look like. __________________

01-12-2005, 01:40 PM	#14 (permalink)
Brutul Tarew Marr Good. Bad. I'm the guy with the gun. Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 956 -2 Internets	OMG the ENGINE is DYING! IT'S DYING! Poor engine.

01-12-2005, 01:58 PM	#15 (permalink)
Jimmee Tragedy by the railway tracks Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 565 -1 Internets	Hay gusy, everquest is being dumbed down, lol sony sux for dumbing eq down. Fuck them for making progress on the game. Now i'm going to get three levels in wow (Sarcasm by the way) Sounds good, and the quest leading up to it was/is quite entertaining to do, though revamped ToFS is a bit much.

Thread Tools	Search this Thread
Show Printable Version Email this Page	Search this Thread: Advanced Search
Display Modes	Rate This Thread
Linear Mode Switch to Hybrid Mode Switch to Threaded Mode	Rate This Thread: