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Sony showing EverQuest Next this week

Company will debut upcoming MMORPG on August 2 during SOE Live event.

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Sony Online Entertainment will reveal first details on EverQuest Next at SOE Live on Friday beginning at 12 p.m. PDT, the company announced through the event's website.

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The August 2 debut event will be hosted by SOE president John Smedley, development director Dave Georgeson, and other members of the production team.

The EverQuest Next event will last 90 minutes and will be streamed through the SOE Twitch channel.

EverQuest Next was announced in 2010 during SOE's Fan Faire, now known as SOE Live.

Unlike 2004's EverQuest II, the new title will not be a continuation of the events that began in the 12-year-old original. Instead, the studio is positioning EverQuest Next as a "reimagining of the EverQuest universe," one that will have "familiar faces, races, and places" but operate as an alternate dimension and with a "clean slate."

"Our task now is to take the game and evolve it and make it into something new for today's fans. And I would liken that to the brilliant job J.J. Abrams did with Star Trek…the reimagining of it," Smedley said in 2011. "That's what we're doing, and we've got some cool new things in store for players with the next one."

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i dont care for pc

bring it to ps4 a real gaming machine

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Oh, you mean that console that is using PC parts that is actually in my current PC?

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That's a total misinformed, bias fanboy statement.. Pc already has capability to out power ps4...

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@ph4n745y The problem is that MMOs have to allow a minimum system requirement. Thus the main difference between a high end PC and a low end PC playing a MMO is just graphics.

With a Console the differences are NONE. and unlike console games that will have problems with additional power from cloud, MMO can be designed with cloud computing in mind.

Again with all consoles having the same power it will be better than trying to make equal non equal gaming rigs.

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@ghost590 lolz

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@ghost590 Consoles are great gaming machines but real mmorpg games will never work well on a console mostly because keyboards are not required and therefore people will not buy them which would make communication really difficult and communication in an MMO is one of the most defining features. A lot of people will not use voice chat online either. Unless every console came with a keyboard MMO games will not take off very well I don't think.

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@atopp399 Keyboards can be used, to make an interface work for both will not be too hard.

Voice chat will be there same as PC.

like all games there will just be a pereference

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@atopp399 FFXI worked well on PS2, and I know many people who waited for XIV to come to PS3 as well. A lot of people just prefer gaming on a console over the upkeep of a 1337 gaming PC.

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@atopp399 I'm curious to see how Destiny pans out

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Just make sure that the gameplay is as challenging as the original EQ was back in 1999. None of this reimagined WoW branded easy-mode MMOs we've seen too much of.

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@Ayato_Kamina_1 I like the EQ people who shit on WoW or like the FF11 kids. You would have quit the game within a day of raiding after leveling forever if you played in vanilla wow.

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@Grenadeh @Ayato_Kamina_1 Are you saying raids in WoW are more challenging than in EQ? lol

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@Ayato_Kamina_1 dont get your hopes up, people cant handle the truth anymore.

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@armyown @DanieLoves Armyown clearly one-upped DanieLoves. DanieLoves has to delete his account now. Those are the rules.

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This will be interesting to see, I wonder if the gameplay will be similar to it's predecessors or if it will be something new.

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I just hope they don't create some dumbed down console MMO and stick to PC and the hardcore EQ audience, though as it's SOE I can 99% guarantee it'll be the first.

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@Tixylixx I'm hoping for the latter, as well. I don't find pleasure in depriving people of a game they'd otherwise play, but I feel like the devs can only primarily cater to the core EQ fans if they are exclusively on PC. Certain things happen to an MMO when it's cross-platform that I just don't care for and that I don't want to see happen to an EQ game.

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@jmeyer2039 @Tixylixx FFXIV ARR figured out a nice to way to have a lot of skills on the action bar and be used with a controller. So other than that, I don't know what PC exclusive features you're looking for that they couldn't port to consoles.

PC may have a more... strict community, but tbh there's enough uptight people online. I don't feel like being surrounded by them while gaming. I like variety :D

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What Abrams did with Star Trek is anything but brilliant.

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@Nemesis_47 Brosiah, you cannot possibly look at Wrath of Khan and say Into Darkness wasn't exponentially better. It wasn't "brilliant" but it was better.

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@Nemesis_47 The second one I did not really like. The first one was done well and I enjoyed it. As the first Star trek movie was star Trek the motionless picture.

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@Nemesis_47 Both movies received critical acclaim and were huge box office hits, not to mention me and all my friends loved it.



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I dont know why the critics gave it decent reviews. I mean all of a sudden Scotty figures out how to just transport Kirk onto and off the Nero's ship so they can duke it out, Uhura makes out with Spock to make him feel better about his entire planet getting blown up and Spock if just left on a planet after Nero waits 30 years to kill him and Kirk happens to stumble into him and Scotty who now can apparently do anything by just pushing a few buttons. At the end of the day it was just another mediocre CGI action flick with poor writing and no character development. I didnt even bother to see the 2nd one. Abrams just ripped off the Star Trek legacy for a cash grab he didnt "reimagine" anything.

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@Nemesis_47 Scotty had already figured that out, and that was actually onto the enterprise - no one ever energized onto or off of Nero's ship. They took a shuttle, both times.

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At least the new one has partial nudity, that is the only thing to make it worth watching.

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@Nemesis_47 That's the point I was trying to make, just sit back and enjoy the flashing lights man

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Yes because when you start to think about it logically you begin to see how much it sucks.

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@Nemesis_47 Your problem is that you're trying to think about it logically, which cannot be done with Star Trek

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That's really backwards.

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I am only interested if it will be on the PS4, if not, they can go **** them selves.

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@Butt_Chunx Nice enthusiasm and passion, Mr. Butt_Chunx

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@Butt_Chunx Wow, cool down.

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@DanieLoves

Stop being a fool

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I am tentatively very excited for this since the original was such a major part of my teenage years. If they can recapture that same endless immersion in world design and offer well-defined roles with challenging encounters, a real sense of danger in high-level areas, high risk versus reward scenarios, and relatively steep leveling curves, I'm on board. But that's just my taste. I don't know how the rest of the community feels about it. If you're not nearly or over 30, chances are you didn't play the original back in '99 and that this is just another MMO to you.

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looks good and will love it on PS4 if they release it.

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I hope they announce a PS4 version because it's gonna be awesome.

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I smell a PS4 version announcement at Gamescom.

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@VeeArSick Oh? Did I struck a nerve?


lol.

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@DanieLoves why fan, and fuel the flames then?

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@DanieLoves What point? That you're offended easily by things not directed at you. Good job, you've clearly communicated that point.

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Hahah pp l are so funny some eevn posting that They get Planetside 2 on Consoles and pc players won't be able to play it hahah,

This game won't arrive on consoles include dragons prophet quite quite a while

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@wexorian Yea anyone who says that is mentally retarded, Planetside 2 has been on PC for over a year and it started on PC - remember a little game called Planetside 1? Remember beta last year? Yea.

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@armyown @DanieLoves "Did I struck a nerve"

thanks for proving my point. Good bye.

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this should've came out on PS3 What the Hell was SOE thinking ?

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@servb0ts they were busy with PC market

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@armyown @DanieLoves because you're clearly as stupid as the other million fanboys that post this daily. We don't need stupid people to speak their minds. So again, shut up.

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@armyown shut up

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Have fun grinding for centuries...

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@ALCHEMISTx24x7 I'm not sure if they will be known for it, but with the hardware they are coming out with they are making it easier for the developers to adapt their MMOs to also run on the next gen consoles. We already know that the elder scrolls series will be releasing their MMO on the PS4 and XboxOne, I do agree with you that PC is were MMOs are meant to be played. I do see them releasing a keyboard mouse for the PS4 and possibly for xbox One too.

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No. If a game can be played with a controller I for one will be playing it on just that.

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@MigzBR Don't bother. If he's retarded enough to think playing an MMO or RTS - games which MUST be played with a M/KB - on controller will be good, then let him.

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@EL_Bomberdor @MigzBR I meant for you to play MMOs with for the consoles, a keyboard and mouse could also help when using the browser, using apps like netflix, Hulu, etc. You can play with whatever you like, I was just stating the fact that you will prob be able to use the peripherals with the consoles, ps3 already allows you to connect a Bluetooth keyboard. In the end of the day what you game with its your option.

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I would like to see if this manages to beat Evequest 1 considering Everquest 2 failed to topple it and people still play EQ1.

Kind of lame tho not being a sequel, but at least they're still releasing expansions for Everquest 1.

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Can't wait to play EverQuest, Planet side 2 and warframe on my new PS4

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@evil_snuggles you wait while I'l play it in 5 min :PPPP

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@wexorian @evil_snuggles You won't be able to play it on a new PS4 in 5 minutes as he specifically said "on my new PS4"


Edit: Mr. Evil Snuggles are you by anychance related to Snugglebear from the post below?

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