Today, EQ marches on with a dedicated player base and another developer, Daybreak Games, at the helm. This sword-and-sorcery-based game was developed by a small company, 989 Studios, but it eventually reached its pinnacle under Sony Online Entertainment after SOE acquired that studio roughly a year after the game's launch. Before there was WoW, there was the MMO pioneer EverQuest.
No, this isn’t about World of Warcraft-that game only turns 15 in 2019. And unlike many games that sought to replace it over the years, this one is still going today. Twenty years ago, a company in Southern California launched an online game that would go on to serve as the model for many more titles to come in the massively multiplayer online RPG (MMORPG) space.