EverQuest II

erudites! Yeah!

I mean, if it was an EQ2 erudite and they're purple, no problem.

But EQ1 erudites?

Well, all that to say is we're still having a lot of fun in Monsters and Memories.

Like, there's, EverQuest has still been going this whole time.

There's EverQuest 1 and EverQuest 2, but EverQuest 1 is still going.

Uh, you can play it, but it's, like, on, like, expansion 450 f- whatever, and, like, I think a lot of people found that it's, like, they sort of, it went off in a direction that it wasn't as good as it used to be.

And then of course there were people that really got into, like, you know, private servers of, like, original EverQuest.

I would argue that the But as you start getting into a rhythm with MMORPGs, and I will freely admit that it's been a while since I was on that MMORPG treadmill.

I, I mean, I played classic EQ, I played EQ2, I played a bunch of other MMOR- RPGs earlier, or in the 2000s and early 2010s.

But since then, I haven't really been on the MMORPG bandwagon for a while.

So maybe this is something that, that differs today, and I'm just not with it, so to speak.

... for so many years.

But then I, I jumped into EverQuest II a lot, and I, I've actually really enjoyed EverQuest II for a while as well.

It, it was, you know, EverQuest II was, was, was, uh, was long and challenging development.

Um, you know, it was, it was developed around the, you know, concurrently at the same ti- you know, it's a contemporary-

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... of World of Warcraft.

Like, World of Warcraft came out a couple months after, I think, EverQuest II released.

Yeah.

Uh, I expect we'll have a lot more detail, uh, in that November stream.

Uh, but as for EverQuest 2, uh, we got a little bit more backstory there too.

Again, once guess, again, these are, like, the final paragraphs of the, each game's respective producer's letter.

Um, EverQuest 2 is Descent of Vallzaroth.

I hope I'm saying that right.

Does it have at least one apostrophe in the middle of the name?

There'll be a city called, uh, uh, uh, Narondalan, uh, Nariondalan? Uh, whatever.

It's gonna be some spooky elf city it looks like, with a lot of, like, uh, iridescent, uh, crazy purple light magic.

But experience has told us that when Asheron's Call, a very popular MMO in its time, got a sequel, everyone said, "F that," stayed in the original, and the, and the new one canceled way before the old one did.

Same thing with EverQuest 2.

EverQuest 1 just retained the base.

And I'm sure that they've had many discussions about what the sequel to WoW should be, and of course this comes up in meetings and things.

... gonna happen, and you, you can't ever move off it to do World of Warcraft 2.

I mean, they didn't e- they didn't even ever d- like, EverQuest 1, and they made an EverQuest 2.

I mean-

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