EverQuest and EverQuest II Producer Letters

Holly Longdale, Executive Producer for EverQuest games has published a pair of wrap-up letters for 2016, outlining some of the plans for the upcoming year.

For EverQuest they include optimizing stability and performance, working on a new expansion, opening a new server and tinkering with the rule sets of the existing ones. Additionally, a number of unspecified quality of life improvements is promised.

EverQuest II, on the other hand, is going to be focused on adding content to the existing game, improving performance, and fixing bugs. Its expansion is just a concept for now, but it too is being worked on.

All in all, the veteran MMORPGs are alive and well, still being worked on by passionate people. A snippet from one of the letters:

We are well into our plans for 2017 and work on next year’s expansion has already begun! The team is talking through possible rule sets for a new progression server for those players who missed the start of Ragefire, Lockjaw, and Phinigel, and we’re considering mid-2017 for our next server. As for Quarm, our first experiment with an event server, we’ll be talking to you more about that in 2017.

We are also looking at options to improve quality of life in the game as we do our planning for the year. In January, we’ll be sorting through our options, scheduling, and formalizing our final plans and getting to it! We are excited!

Most of all, we would all like to thank you for your continued support of this incredible game and community. You are the reason that EverQuest has been vibrant and alive for almost 18 years now and things are still going strong! We are so proud to be a part of it!

There’s plenty more to come!

Happy holidays and an incredible new year to you and yours!