This evening was the keynote address to cover DC Universe Online, Everquest, Everquest 2, Everquest Next, and Legends of Norrath. Here’s the highlights from the presentations.
DC Universe Online highlights:
- Lairs, aka housing, is coming
- PvP duals in your Lair
- New missions
- New open world solo content
EverQuest highlights:
- Game is 13 years old, 14 years in March, and 17 years in development
- Level 100
- Collections are being added to the game
- Aggro Meter in game
- Autonomous Auction House
- New type of dragon: Fear Dragon
- Rain of Fear launches November 28th and is the 19th expansion to the franchise
- Robes and caster hats are been added to Hero’s Forge, as have event related cosmetics
EverQuest2 highlights:
- 8 years of development will be celebrated in November
- SOEmote world wide hit
- Ethereal drops are just below Mythical level
- Avatars of the Gods are back in the game with three new ones in Sleeper’s Tomb and more to come in the expansion, Chains of Eternity on November 13th
- Expansion takes you the Realm of the Silver Reaper – aka descend into the After Life to save the world
- Level cap to 95 for adventurers, trade skillers, and guilds
- Prestige Abilities
- Incremental spells which trigger brand new abilities
- Trade skills are getting experimentation skills – the more experimentation you do, the more powerful the item becomes
- MASS PRODUCTION IS COMING
- Refining and salvaging
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- Spirit Stones: grow in power the more you use the item
- Second Part of Sleeper’s Tomb released, including a contested version
- Abilities of zone NPC’s change based on the time of day
- Open beta begins Monday
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Legends Of Norrath highlights:
- Five years old
- 14 sets
- Approximately 4,000 cards
- 585 loot cards
- over 9 million games played
- Debt of the Ratonga is the title of Set 15
- Artwork, as usual is beautiful
- Antonia Bayle is included in the deck
- Caertex included for the first time, part of the lore of both EQ and EQ2 but in neither game, he’s a god
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- Streamlining the client and tutorials are in the work
- Five Year Treasury Book is coming, physical and digital version
- Physical book is print on demand
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- A couple of lucky attendees got physical copies of the book
Ethernere is the common bond between the coming expansions of EQ and EQ2
Everquest Next highlights:
- Totally new stories
- Forge Light Engine which is being used in PS2
- Trying very hard to “do things differently” than always done
- The team is determined to keep the lid on all other details of the game
Player Studio highlights:
- Make items and sell them to other players
- Starting out with simple, basic objects like:
- Housing furniture, swords, shields
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- Items submitted by players are reviewed by SOE for functionality, no copyright infringements, and art style that works for the game
- Once accepted, item goes to the market and you get a check quarterly
- Exclusives: stuff players do that SOE won’t
- HAIRSTYLES
- House Deeds: decorated houses can be sold lock, stock and barrel to other players
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An object purchased with cash. Has the possibility of adding 30 days of game time to their account with plat! Pricing will be set by the player base, and the SOE recommendation is to set the price high! Best side effect of Krono? Hands down will eliminate the spam from gold farmers. Those lucky attendees at SOE Live all received a free Krono.
Ok, I’ll admit it, watching the broadcast has me itching to fire up EQ2 this week. Well that is, if DCUO isn’t monopolizing my time but more on that later. Night Norrathians – be sensible in Vegas!
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