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MMORPG: Money, Money, Money

Posted by Hemos on from the hand-over-fist dept.

JTacomis writes "There's an interesting article up at Business 2.0 magazine about Sony Online and EverQuest. It says that EverQuest makes Sony over $5 million a month. Star Wars Galaxies is expected to make even more than that. It's a long and in-depth articles that takes us through the whole back-story to EverQuest. One interesting fact: EverQuest almost didn't get made. According to the article, the idea was originally turned down inside of Sony."

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  1. But, is $5 million a month worth... by qurob · · Score: 0, Troll


    The kid who died because of playing EverQuest?

    Link

    Shawn Wooley, we miss you! RIP!

  2. Pushers.. by dmouritsendk · · Score: 0, Troll

    EQ is (as other inhere already commented) pretty much a drug, I tried playing it for a while(about 2months). They do everything to make you go after "that next level".

    But got fed up with all the crap they try to pull on you, example, if you killed a monster inside a dungeon and the monster fellinto the wall. Sometimes, you would'nt get xp. Another player told me that this was "the wall bug", and it had been around for ages. Ok, software is buggy and patches sometimes are slow. BUT, Varant just neglected this for a loooong time because it was good for them(less xp, more gametime). Other bugs like undercons etc. was fixed ligthing fast.

    Another very very wierd thing, that just seems generally accepted (nobody can tell you why). But monsters goes into a berserker attack mode, when you are very close to leveling. Even monsters which are relatively calm, and normally would have to be attacked to fight. Just attacks you.

    Varant is simply a pusher, doing everthing they can to hook people on their drugs.

    EQ should'nt be allowed...