MMO EverQuest Next revealed by Sony Online Entertainment

Sony's MMO 'Everquest II'.

Fourteen years after the introduction of the original EverQuest MMO, Sony Online Entertainment is bringing a new vision for the future of online games with the worldwide debut of EverQuest Next (EQN).

"With EverQuest Next, we're going back to our roots -- a space we defined with the EverQuest legacy -- and ushering in a new era of MMOs: The Emergent Era," said John Smedley, President, Sony Online Entertainment. ?"Today, many MMOs fail because players consume content faster than developers can create it. With EverQuest Next, we're creating a living world that players are part of and empowering them to produce new content alongside the development team. ?What does the future hold for EverQuest Next and Sony Online Entertainment? ?It's in the players' hands, and we like it that way."

In development since 2009, EQN?"is different from all of the MMOs that have been made before in very important ways", so says Sony.

The game will feature multi-classing to allow?players the ability to explore and interact with the world according to their individual style of play. ?There are no levels in EQN, but there will be more than 40 distinct classes at launch with multi-tiered abilities and specialized weapon skills to collect and master.

It will also have destructible environments, an emergent AI (ie:?Orcs may attack opportunistically because they want an adventurer's gold, not simply because a careless hero wanders into an attack radius), permanent in-game-world change, and a player consequence engine.

"We believe that the bold choices the team is making with EQN will result in a product that provides players with an absolutely new kind of game experience," said Laura Naviaux, Senior Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing, Sony Online Entertainment. ?"However, there is something even more important to us. As an organization, we are dedicated to partnering with our community to give them a voice in the games we create. With EQN, we are taking this idea even further and offering our players the opportunity to actively build EQN with us."

Sony is suggesting that the new game will launch this Winter.

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Source: http://www.news10.net/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=252760

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