EverQuest (Volume 34) (Boss Fight Books) - Softcover

Smith, Matthew S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1940535352 ISBN 13: 9781940535357

Verlag: Boss Fight Books, 2025

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“You’re in our world now.” This bold tagline led Sony’s 1999 ad blitz for EverQuest, the year’s most anticipated massively multiplayer game. Though just five words long, it challenged players to live in a virtual world beyond anything they’d experienced before—and delivered. The game that proved the MMORPG’s potential, EverQuest outsold all prior entries in the genre and was the most popular subscription game in North America for five years until Blizzard’s World of Warcraft overthrew it. Yet EverQuest lives on, with tens of thousands of players logging in every day.

Based on new interviews with EverQuest developers and veteran MMORPG developers, journalist Matthew S. Smith explores EverQuest's unlikely creation at a studio built to develop sports games, a rocky release which overwhelmed the game’s ill-prepared datacenter, the enticing game loops that placed EverQuest in a media firestorm around gaming addiction, and the real-money black market for EverQuest items that foretold the future of digital goods.

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Matthew S. Smith is a technology and gaming journalist from Portland, Oregon. His work is published in IEEE Spectrum magazine, Wired, The Verge, Kotaku, PC World, and USA Today, among other publications. Matthew also films and edits short documentaries about retro PC games on his YouTube channel, Computer Gaming Yesterday.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Boss Fight Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1940535352
• ISBN 13: 9781940535357
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
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