When a company announces layoffs, disgruntled ex-employees usually talk.
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This morning, Daybreak Game Company issued a statement regarding its ownership -- a matter of some debate over the past several days -- which was posted to its various games' forums, like this one.
Today is Halloween, so it's fitting that we should talk about death -- specifically, the death of free-to-play games. No, not F2P gaming as a whole, which we've covered before, but the death of individual games.
As part of their continuing efforts to kill off the EverQuest franchise, Daybreak Game Company will no longer make old EverQuest II expansions available for free. That was the news from the EQ2 forums over the weekend, when...
Long-running EverQuest II fansite, EQ2Wire is closing to the public.
Welcome to episode #5 of Hi-Lo: The MMOBomb Game Show!...
Frostfell has started in Norrath already, but that doesn't mean that the team at Daybreak isn't adding more gift giving goodness into their free-to-play MMORPG EverQuest II.
The upcoming expansion to Daybreak Games' free-to-play MMO Everquest II will go live November 15th, according to the expansion store page.
Everquest II players have some new adventures to look forward to, starting in the Tranquil Sea as level 95 Heroic Characters.
EverQuest members have some new content to look forward to this month.
Proving that today is a busy day for game developers, Daybreak Games is launching two new major expansions for the long-running EverQuest games: EverQuest: The Broken Mirror and EverQuest II: Terrors of Thalumbra.
EverQuest II is celebreating its 11th birthday with the return of the Heroes' Festival -- beginning Friday, November 6.
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Love It Or Hate It: EverQuest II
Some free-to-play games are more polarizing than others, with some sides taking the stance of "great, totally non-exploitative implementation" and others thinking "total pay-to-win trash." We'd like to see on what side of the ...
Ok gang, stay with me on this one as things get a bit weird.
EverQuest 2 Executive Producer Holly "Windstalker" Longdale's most recent producer's letter makes official what was teased on the forums a couple months back: EverQuest 2 will be "consolidating" (don't call it a merge!...
EverQuest Producer Holly "Windstalker" Longdale broke some oft-unwelcome news on the EQ2 forums earlier this week when she announced that her team would be merging some of the game's US servers to "tackle population health iss...
I've been wondering for a while just how Sony Online Entertainment is doing, from a financial standpoint.
Apparently, there will be changes with Daybreak Game Studio, and they're here now. Longtime SOE/Daybreak employees Dave "Smokejumper" Georgeson and Linda "Brasse" Carlson were let go from the company today.
Sony Online Entertainment will soon be running the show alone for many of its games in Europe. As revealed today on the official SOE forums, SOE will migrate its EU game accounts for PlanetSide 2, DC Universe Online, and Ev...
SOE went back and forth a bit when their initial plan for subscriptions met with some fan resistance.
While everyone's ooh-ing and aah-ing over the next big thing in MMOs – whether that be EverQuest Next, The Elder Scrolls Online, WildStar, or something else – it's not hard to overlook a game that's been chugging along and pro...
EverQuest II's 10th expansion, Tears of Veeshan, introduces a new character class, the channeler, nine-new dungeons, more AA options, new, more flexible itemization, and a lot more.
It's no surprise to see a subscription game go free-to-play.