EverQuest Next

'EverQuest Next'
Developer(s)	Sony Online Entertainment
Publisher(s)	Sony Online Entertainment
Producer(s)	Clint Worley
Series	EverQuest
Release	TBD
Genre(s)	Fantasy MMORPG

EverQuest Next (working title) is the planned next game in the EverQuest franchise of massively multiplayer online roleplaying games, a successor to EverQuest and EverQuest II. Sony Online Entertainment, the developer and publisher, officially announced the new game in August 2010, at which point development was in its earliest stages and feedback was being solicited from existing EQ and EQ2 players.

The game will not be called EverQuest Next; it is only a working title.

The game will also not be a sequel or prequel to any of the games in the EverQuest franchise; it is planned to present to players a "parallel world" of Norrath, one in which some of the locations and characters may be familiar, but specific relationships and events can diverge from the official storylines of the other games. The developers have stated an intention to return to a style of gameplay more like the original EverQuest, while retaining the advances in MMORPG design that have developed in the years since that game first launched.

References

• http://www.massively.com/2010/08/07/fan-faire-2010-john-smedley-and-the-soe-crew-talk-everquest-nex/
• http://eq2wire.com/2010/08/07/live-blog-eqnext-panel2/
• http://www.gamespot.com/news/6272805.html (archive)