20,000 "Developers": EverQuest Next Landmark Goes Alpha
It was just by good happenstance that EverQuest Next Landmark became as big of a project as it has, with a now projected 20,000 alpha players, who are considered by SOE's Dave Georgeson to be part of the development team by default. With regards to the games direction and original purpose, the new alpha community could be considered a huge contribution to EQN's development over all.
Landmark is an explorers paradise inside of a sandbox lovers dream, placing the thrill of adventure inside of an environment completely designed to shape and shift. It started as only a beta release of the tools the development team harnessed to design EQN, but snowballed and morphed into it's own creative adventure by including a few of your classic PvE elements, such as enemies and loot.
As it was always part of the plan to have player input on designing EverQuest Next, Landmark has given players the ability to create blueprints for the things they design, which could potentially become part of the realm within EverQuest Next. With both player input and the same engine implemented as Planetside 2, there is a lot of potential for some delicious eye-candy in the near future.
Mutliple Founders Packs with different arranged benefits are available for purchase to get you started creating the EQN of the future.
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I'm kind of curious how the Manhunt Scout Missions will be, logging in now.
Newsflash, this gives us an advantage to when the player market opens up and we make our money back 1-100 fold. The things you can do in this game have been very.... appeasing to me and I hate these kinds of games, I won't even touch minecraft but... this.. Loving it. Hating the down time but loving it.
they have given us so many things to do and change to make your own
People who pay to get into alphas are sad, dumb creatures feeding a horrendously greedy beast.
Have to keep REMINDING myself that all the stuff I do will be wiped, the game will probably be really buggy and laggy and there wont be much to do besides making stuff.
BUT I STILL WANT THIS GAME!
Does anyone know if there is an NDA right now? I could at least watch livestreams
onto the game i cant wait to play eqn it looks good but if it is using the ps2 engine it could be riddled with the same fps problems and bugs that ps2 has