the cliffnotes of what we know about EQ3

- claimed to be worlds largest sandbox (whatever that means)

- will use the same game engine as Planetside 2

- likely free to play

- possibly cross platform

- will be a playable demo at next SOE fanfaire August 2013

past commentary about sandbox play

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/10/13/planetside-2-eq-next-and-soes-player-driven-future/

RPS: SOE’s Player Studio seems like an extension of that to me. Let players make their own new content. How far do you hope to expand that, though? Right now it’s just objects in games like EverQuest and eventually PlanetSide. Would you ever like to see players creating their own missions and gametypes, though?

John Smedley: Stay tuned. The answer is yes, wholeheartedly. We have plans for that that go out a long way, and a game that is going to dominate because of that kind of stuff.

It’s not just players making quests. Don’t think of it just as Dungeons & Dragons. What we’re actually building is the ability for players to put in systems. System-level stuff. We give them some rules, some basic simple rules, and they can make things out of whole cloth. They could build their own battlegrounds style of gameplay. That’s what we want. What we have is an amazing infrastructure and ability to let players do new and emerging things.

We want them to… Not make their own fun. We’re going to make our games amazingly fun. We want them to be able to make things we didn’t think of fun. That’s really what it is. I mentioned Hulkageddon, I love that in EVE. That’s just players putting bounties on something. It’s nothing. That’s all it is. But that’s as fun as anything in EVE. More fun if you ask me. It’s amazingly fun.

ZAM interview

http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=30916

You’ll be able to destroy, massive, massive parts of this world, almost all of it. You can light the forest on fire; we have ambition with this thing. We want it to be something where the world you log into, might not be the world you log into in five days.

What you saw in WoW’s Cataclysm could take place because someone cast a spell that is powerful enough to do something major. We want it to be meaningful. And that’s what we’re building. It’s actually what we’ve built, because we’ve got this now. It just isn’t quite at the level where we’re OK [to reveal it to the public]. We have a story that we want to tell for the announcement of it, we want it that you’re seeing every aspect of the gameplay, we’re one aspect short of that until we’re ready to show, so we’re close now.”

neeed moar news....

lets say some form of open beta starts just after soe live in August, then couple months before release would be an ok assumption, so then we're looking at a fall/holiday release most likely.

wonder if we'll hear anything from pax east or gdc in march..

Originally posted by Vunak23
Probably nobody posting because we dont have any substantial info to post about?

Im posting cause I want that cookie in Cookie Monster''s hand...

Beam me up!

Oh wait. 

Paying for PORT TO GFEY

I mean I have my spire token -- ready.

Um.  Which way to the POP book?  Anyone?

Beta me!

Originally posted by negacrowbar
Just posting to be posting...I cant wait, not because I am an Everquest fan, but because I aint got anything to play!

Yep I am starting to look forward to this never thought I would say that about an SOE game again after the Prosiebensat fiasco.  However I have been reduced to startng a new toon on Everquest II, free to play at the moment but six to twelve months?  I may have to buy some game time.

Originally posted by Hrimnir
Awesome sauce, glad they finally made a forum.  Now all the GW2 fanbois, biodrones, SOE haters (people who never played SWG but read about the NGE) and various other morons can all descend upon every thread we start to hate on some major aspect of the game.

This made me laugh, because it's true. I look forward to the themer, 3-button, "I'm a programmer" crowd posting venom toward this game. Those guys are my favorite.

Originally posted by Zorlofe
Yeah the wait is killing me too. I just hope they get the classes right. EQ2 was a bit of dissapointment for me when it came to the classes. These other changes sound pretty sweet though.

The EQ2 you see today is 10 times different then what you seen in beta.   They really did a piss poor job in the development and if the game today was the game released it would be the most popular MMO.

Snippet is taken from http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/184805/MMO_devs_will_lose_the_fight_against_content_churn_says_SOEs_Smedley.php#.UQhAuL9EFe-

Quote:

What he (Smed) is really itching to play, though, is the one game he can't talk much about: EverQuest Next. 

SOE has been dropping hints about the game for a while now, but Smedley says to expect a much bigger reveal this year. 

"There are times you know something and you're bursting to talk about it - and that is the case here," he says. "We're betting the company's future on this game. ... The last EverQuest game launched in 2005. We've blown up two design ideas over the last four years because they were too 'me too.' It wasn't enough of a change. We settled on a design that, when we looked at it, everyone in the room thought we were crazy. We gave it a week and came back, and we all said 'yeah, we're still crazy, but we can't get the idea out of our heads. ... It's going to be the world's largest sandbox game." 

EverQuest Next was a black box project for years - and it was only last month that Smedley and the team showed it to the EverQuest and EverQuest 2 teams. Smedley says he was so nervous the night before the presentation that he couldn't sleep - but that both teams received it enthusiastically. 

Players will have to wait a bit longer to try it themselves, but maybe not as long as you'd expect. "Players will get their hands on an actual release version of what we're doing late [this] year - and I don't mean a beta," says Smedley.

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Originally posted by Zorlofe
Yeah the wait is killing me too. I just hope they get the classes right. EQ2 was a bit of dissapointment for me when it came to the classes. These other changes sound pretty sweet though.

I read somewhere awhile ago that they said the classes where gonna be more like EQ1 than EQ2 so thats a plaus imo :)

Originally posted by Kieren2
I want it to be out already!! Hope this year atleast, or it will be old already!

I want it to be out when they finish with it :P tomany games hurt them self by releasing a game before it is completed. You can expect some news on it in by August at the latest. i reckon they may be planning to release it in November intime for Christmas, SoE likes to release EQ and EQ2 expansions in November so would make sense that they would release EQ next in November aswell.

Originally posted by sanshi44

Originally posted by Zorlofe
Yeah the wait is killing me too. I just hope they get the classes right. EQ2 was a bit of dissapointment for me when it came to the classes. These other changes sound pretty sweet though.

I read somewhere awhile ago that they said the classes where gonna be more like EQ1 than EQ2 so thats a plaus imo :)

That is definitely a plus! Good to hear!

Nice one LOL.

Bring on EQNext, it's your time to shine Smed, bring back the king of 3D MMO's with a vengeance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKj36GJj_i8