Everquest 2 Launches

Though it's being drowned out by the Halo 2 news, Everquest 2 officially launches today. RPG Vault has a review available for perusal, GamerFeed has a hands on look, and if you're looking for crunchy, low fat coverage Gamespy has an interview with Heather Graham about her role in the game. If you're already tripping the light fantastic in Qeynos check out GamerGod's Qeynos Quest feature, or just cut out the middle man and look forward to the first content on Allakhazam. Finally, F13 provides usefully cynical commentary about the beta and launch of the game.

Comments

Slashdot usage

[Anonymous Coward]

Suddenly drops 72%.

Re:Slashdot usage

[bsharitt]

Just wait until WoW launches, an you can expect it to drop another 36%.

Re:Slashdot usage

[Norgus]

Nice counting there.

Re:Slashdot usage

[Stochio]

...yet for some reason the birthrate isn't affected.

Jumped the Gun?

[servognome]

The Everquest 2 website says there are still 17 hours left.
Though if I lived in Japan it would be available today, but it won't launch there until later, so I'd have to travel to the US to pick up the game, but then it would no longer be today it would be yesterday.
Time travel is so confusing.

For the first time ever

[Timesprout]

There will be a mass almost RTFA as all the geeks hit the link to perv, I mean study the Heather Graham pics.

Not as good as Progress Quest

[Anonymous Coward]

It's still not as good as Progress Quest.

It seems the progressquest authors were to first to streamline the gameplay enough to remove the tedious parts and remove the tedium from the user that cames in this category suffer from.

Re:Bugs and Nerfing

[Kenja]

"I think I will wait till sony has the bugs and all the nerfing worked out for the 'game balance'."

Look, if your never going to play just say it. I mean they still having finished EQ1.

E-V-E-R-Q-U-E-S-T ??

[Anenga]

Will this "Everquest" help me in getting an Open Beta CD-Key for WoW from the duct-taped together webserver that is FilePlanet.com? Or perhaps assist me in my perilous presuit of refreshing "signup.worldofwarcraft.com" every 5 seconds in hopes of grasping -- ever so quickly -- that final bliss-filled orgamsmic joy of actually getting to play?

/Already got CD-Key suckers

Heather Graham

[PerpetualMotion]

I think we all know why they wanted Heather Graham *NSFW* involved with EQ2. People are tired with elves. I wonder how long until the nude patch is leaked.

Good

[pHatidic]

For those of us who don't pre-order EQ2, our chances of surviving and reproducing just went way up.

Easy solution

[TapTapTheChisler]

Move your system clock ahead 17 hours and refresh the page

Hark, what's that?

[deemaunik]

I can hear the paperwork of divorces and welfare being shuffled across the desks of america already.

And in related news...

[Sheepdot]

... Duke Nukem Forever has announced that they "would like to rescind the comment about DNF being released before EQ2."

Food for thought:
"Duke Nukem Forever is a 1999 game and we think that timeframe matches very well with what we have planned for the game." - George Broussard, 1998

"Trust us, Duke Nukem Forever will rock when it comes out next year." -Joe Siegler, 1999

"When it's done in 2001." -2000 Christmas card

"DNF will come out before Unreal 2." -George Broussard, 2001

"If DNF is not out in 2001, something's very wrong." -George Broussard, 2001

"DNF will come out before Doom 3." -George Broussard, 2002

The Voyager 1 spacecraft has travelled approximately 2.5 billion miles since the announcement of Duke Nukem Forever.

The rovers Spirit and Opportunity were proposed, authorized, announced, designed, launched and successfully landed upon Mars within the timeframe of Duke Nukem Forever's development.

The majority of the children who were entering high school the school year following Duke Nukem Forever's announcement are now eligible to drink.

And last but not least:
"We're confident that DNF will be one of the greatest, if not the greatest, game of 1998. And this confidence is not misplaced." -Scott Miller, 1997

Indeed, I would have to agree. When DNF finally does come out I'm sure it will blow the games of 1998 away. Or, at least, I sure as hell hope it does.

(Sources were from all over the net, mostly the DNF forums)

As a beta taster

[lobsterGun]

I have to say that this game just isn't ready for prime time.

I found the CD to be dry and tasteless. There wasn't even any salt on it. If Sony is going to ship CDs that are so completely devoid of flavour they should at least ship it with a nice salsa or a cheese sauce.

And one other thing. I serious doubt that CD was biodegradeable. Don't ask me how I know. I'd rather not talk about it.

What gives...?

[standing_still]

"...Though it's being drowned out by the Halo 2 news, Everquest 2 officially launches today...."

Personally, Halo 2 doesn't excite me at all -- There are already too many 1st person shooter games out there, and not enough true RPGs.

I remember playing EverQuest back when it use to be called Dragon Warrior -- the memories. I even managed to download copies of the versions only released in Japan, and Emulate them on my PC with a translator.

PS: EverQuest 2? EverQuest 2 was released in Japan for the SNES a long time ago -- What gives?

Obligatory

[myrdred]

Link to ClicheQuest! The best in MMORPG satire!

Christmas! In November!

[Misch]

Everquest 2, Halo 2, Firefox 1.0.... it's like christmas a month and a half early!