Video Gaming News - February 2003
San Diego, CA (February 27, 2003) - Sony Online Entertainment Inc. (SOE)
announced that it is adding a new server to meet customer demand for EverQuest
Online Adventures, exclusively for the PlayStation 2.
"EverQuest Online Adventures is already bringing thousands of people into the
amazing online world of EverQuest and giving them the adventure of a lifetime,"
said Michael Lustenberger, director of product marketing for Sony Online
Entertainment. "By adding another server, new players have the opportunity to
get in at the ground floor and see what everyone is talking about as they begin
unique adventures with a world full of new friends."
From SOE:
The new server will allow thousands of new players to join the popular
massively multiplayer online role-playing game where people create characters
from a number of fantasy classes and meet people from the real world online as
they embark on exciting adventures in a vast virtual world. The new server is
scheduled to go online Friday, March 7, before noon Pacific Standard Time.
EverQuest Online Adventures includes a free 30-day trial and gives players
what they've been looking for with non-stop action, the opportunity to explore
an exciting new land, a world of fun and interesting people to meet and play
with, quests, combat and more. The game has a suggested retail price of $49.99,
which includes a 30-day free trial to the game's online world, and all that it
has to offer. Additionally, EverQuest Online Adventures carries a monthly
subscription fee of $9.99 per person for continuing access to the game world.
Players can subscribe for additional months using a credit card, or by
purchasing EverQuest Online Adventures Game Cards, which open the world of
Norrath to PlayStation 2 owners that choose not to subscribe with a credit card.
About EverQuest Online Adventures
EverQuest Online Adventures gives you the power to unleash the unique
adventurer within and personalize your in-game character from 9 races, 14 player
character classes, and a number of hairstyles and facial characteristics. As you
progress in the game completing challenging and thrilling quests, interacting
with new friends, and discovering powerful items that you've only dreamed about,
your character grows and develops as the world evolves. EverQuest Online
Adventures also features:
- Action is always only a few steps away with fast and tactically rich
combat with special abilities and spells for each character
- Thousands of monsters from lowly rats to immense dragons each posing a
unique challenge for the player
- An enormous game world offering gamers more than 320 square miles to
explore
- A strong storyline and universe filled with compelling quests and
intriguing subplots that will pull you into the story and allow you to choose
what comes next
- Thousands of non-player characters with which to interact
- Hundreds of spells and special abilities that give your character the
unique skills you need to be a hero
- Thousands of powerful items to discover, rewarding those who have what it
takes to finish epic quests and defeat the mightiest foes
- Support for dial-up and broadband, with seamless gameplay on a 56K modem
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