Daybreak games announced today that after much consideration, they are cancelling development on EverQuest Next.
For the past 20 years EverQuest has been a labor of love. What started as a deep passion of ours, as game creators, grew into a much larger passion shared by you, millions of players and Daybreakers alike. Watching EverQuest’s ability to entertain and bring people together has inspired and humbled us. It’s shaped our culture and has emboldened us to take aggressive risks with our game ideas and products. When we decided to create the next chapter in the EverQuest journey, we didn’t aim low. We set out to make something revolutionary.
Shanks says that the reason for the cancellation was ultimately due to the fact that as they “put together the pieces, we found that it wasn’t fun.”
Its not all doom and gloom however, as Shanks says that the future of the EverQuest franchise as a whole is bright and that original games EverQuest and EverQuest II remain strong. He urges fans to stay resilient and that they will have more amazing EverQuest products coming in the future.