EverQuest

1001 Video Games

EverQuest appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.

Controversy

Verant Interactive was in late 1999 and early 2000 under the suspicion of having based EverQuest on DikuMUD source code, which would be against the DikuMUD license since EverQuest is a commercial game.

This was a minor controversy, but ultimately led to Verant Interactive issuing a sworn statement to the Diku Group on March 17, 2000, that EverQuest was NOT based on any DikuMUD source code.

This statement can be read at: http://www.dikumud.com/everquest.aspx.

Novels

In 2005, CDS published two novels set in the EverQuest world: The Ocean of Tears, by Stewart Wieck, and The Rogue's Hour, by Scott Ciencin.

Title

Because of how addictive the game was to some people, players sometimes referred to the game, jokingly, as EverCrack or NeverRest.

Awards

• Computer Gaming World
  • April 2001 (Issue #201) – Multiplayer Game of the Year
  • November 2002 (Issue #220) – Introduced into the Hall of Fame
• GameSpy
  • 2001 – #15 Top Game of All Time
• GameStar (Germany)
  • Issue 12/1999 - #65 in the "100 Most Important PC Games of the Nineties" ranking
• Game Informer
  • August 2001 (Issue #100) - #33 in the "Top 100 Games of All Time" poll
• PC Gamer
  • April 2000 - #28 in the "All-Time Top 50 Games Poll"
  • April 2005 - #24 in the "50 Best Games of All Time"
• PC Player (Germany)
  • Issue 01/2000 - Best Online Game in 1999

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