Kotaku: Eq2

This is the Very Best Reason to Go Back to EverQuest II

Mike Fahey — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:20:00 EST

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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. More »

This is the Most Evil EverQuest II's Freeport Has Looked in Years

Mike Fahey — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:20:00 EST

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From the generic fantasy city of the original EverQuest to the grungy spires of EverQuest 2, the city of Freeport has never quite captured the spirit of being the home to everything evil on Norrath. Until now, that is. More »

EverQuest II Fully Commits to Free-to-Play

Mike Fahey — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:40:00 EST

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Last year EverQuest II dipped its toes in free-to-play waters splitting its services into two separate games: The regular EverQuest II, and the limited free-to-play EverQuest II Extended. Next month the game puts that silliness behind it and dives in head-first. More »

Playing Everything Sony Online Entertainment Has To Offer Just Got Cheaper

Mike Fahey — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 13:40:00 EDT

With the impending demise of Star Wars Galaxies and perhaps the dawning realization that the best games it has to offer are free-to-play, Sony Online Entertainment ditches the Station Pass in favor of SOE All Access, allowing players to access nine online games starting at $19.99 a month. More »

EverQuest II Goes Free-To-Play In A Different Way

Mike Fahey — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:00:00 EDT

Continuing a trend started by D&D Online and Lord of the Rings Online, Sony Online Entertainment is launching a free-to-play version of EverQuest II, completely separate from the existing game. EverQuest II producer David Georgeson explains why. More »

SOE Dates 2008 Fan Faire

Mike Fahey — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:00:00 EDT

Sony Online Entertainment has given a date to their annual parade of pale-skinned shut-ins, blinking as they emerge into the bright sunlight, the SOE Fan Faire. This year's convention will be help August 14th through the 17th at the Las Vegas Hilton. This means we are definitely skipping a repeat of last year's Quakecon / Blizzcon / Fan Faire debacle, as QC is running two weeks earlier. Plenty of time left for Blizzard to muck things up though.

"Fan Faire is by far the best vacation destination for SOE gamers, their families and friends," said Alan Crosby, Senior Director, Global Community Relations, Sony Online Entertainment. "This is the ultimate party for gamers and a great chance to meet up with their online friends in the real world."

This year's 4-day event will feature demos of The Agency and Free Realms, a talk from SOE President John Smedley, chances to meet and chat with developers, and plenty of geeky hobnobbing and drunk singalongs. I wanna go! More »

Exclusive EQII Item In Massive Online Gamer

Mike Fahey — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:20:37 EST

The latest issue of Beckett Massive Online Gamer magazine should be out wherever fine bookstores see fit to carry it, and inside you could very well find a key code that unlocks a special in-game item in EQ2 - an animated portrait of Venril Sathir. I'm sure it will make an excellent conversation piece during your many in-game social events. Um, yes. I know it's a silly little portrait, but fans of the game go nuts over this sort of thing. I played the game for a year and never once had anyone else in my house, but trust me, it was full of magical wonders the likes of which you had never seen, which made me feel warm and fuzzy inside. The promotion itself is interesting. Free in-game stuff is an awesome marketing tool. Can you imagine if Blizzard put random free junk codes in boxes of Rice Krispies? The world's children would be forced to eat store brand rice cereal out of a resealable plastic bag. Hit the jump for details on the special issue, which many or many not require subscribing to the magazine itself. More »

Rise of Kunark Screens

Mike Fahey — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:20:39 EDT

While I impressed over the demo of Everquest 2's upcoming Rise of Kunark expansion I was given at E3 this year, SOE's media kit put the ass in assets, with only a few meager images that didn't even count as screenshots. Finally they've released some beautiful images of the lost continent, with distinctively Sarnak architecture that has me looking back fondly to the days when I would sit endless hours outside the Sarnak fort in the Lake of Ill Omen, listening to people hate each other in the OOC channel. Ah, memories. More »

$1.8 Million Passed Through Station Exchange

Mike Fahey — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 13:20:14 EST

Sony Online Entertainment launched the Station Exchange back in 2005 as an officially sanctioned player auction site meant to ~~profit from~~ combat the ever-growing gold and character black-market in EQ2. No one was sure how popular the site would be, seeing as only certain Everquest II servers would be Exchange-enabled. Well nearly two years later SOE has published a white paper detailing the first year of transactions, which reports a whopping $1.8 million in transactions over the period. The paper includes all sorts of statistics, from highest priced items (dark elf characters) to average platinum prices ($7.35 per piece.) More »

EQ2 Via Wiimote

Mike Fahey — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 14:40:51 EST

CyanBane, the host of the Eq2-Daily and a coworker of mine at my day job, has managed to work out playing Everquest 2 with a pair of Nintendo Wiimotes. More »

$25 WoW Character Transfers A Pretty Good Deal Compared to EQ2

brownlee — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 12:40:45 EDT

We were a bit agog at Blizzard's plans to sell character transfers for half the retail price of the game, but Kotakuite Cory wrote us in, putting it all in perspective. This is the character migration fee structure for Everquest 2 More »