RUMOR: EverQuest 3 & Planetside 3 in Development According to Former Employee - MMORPG.com News

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RUMOR: EverQuest 3 & Planetside 3 in Development According to Former Employee - MMORPG.com News

According to Reddit, a former Daybreak Game Company employee has dished a bunch of inside information about what was...or is...in development at the troubled studio. According to the now-deleted (but reposted) rumor, EverQuest 3 and PlanetSide 3 are said to be in development.

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SBFord

Well, consolidating all of the teams into three main projects with skeleton crews on the ones that will ultimately sunset in the near future seems plausible. I guess we'll see but I ain't holdin' my breath.

Vhayne

Ehh, Everquest 3 battle royale?  wtf?  I checked the date 3 times to be sure this wasn't April 1. 

But sure if they can make a modern "classic" mmo using EQ's assets, then go for it.  I would check it out.  

lahnmir

Awesome! So they will kill off those old and sad EQ games, or better, put them in maintenance mode to slowly rot away, and they will infuse the new EQ with lots of battle royale gameplay. This must be EXACTLY the news all EQ fans have been waiting for.....

/Cheers,
Lahnmir

Warlyx

eq3? yeah sure

Ridrith

Daybreak making terrible choices and being a crap-tier company? How did I not see this coming?! Oh, wait. Never mind. I remember that time they bank rolled some of their funding off of lies and had people purchase Landmark for a game that would ultimately never come out. Then went ahead and killed Landmark too. Good riddance if Daybreak goes away.

rojoArcueid

I could believe Planetside 3 being battle royale, but EQ3 battle royale? LOL keep it dead please.

azarhal

How does a EQ3 PvP Battle Royal focused game can be prepped to compete with Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen? Have I missed something about Pantheon PvE focused design being drastically altered recently?

MadFrenchie

That bit of information doesn't even seem to make good sense in the environment.

It's focusing on battle royale elements to compete with Pantheon? Pantheon has zero BR elements, that's about as far from Pantheon as you can get.

Panther2103

What even... I don't know if I believe that former employee. Maybe they were disgruntled so they gave out fake info to make them look worse.

Planetside being a BR game? That wouldn't work at all. Planetside has always been about territorial control, unless somehow they made each sub zone 100v100 and your side winning kept the zone. But I just feel like a BR game can't be added into every single game mode. At least when MOBAs got hot they didn't make one out of every IP ever.

EQ having an emphasis on BR? What the hell? Are they mixing up RvR with a BR? Even then, when has EQ ever had a focus on PvP? Sure there have been PvP servers but in general most of my experience with EQ has been PVE. I don't actually know anyone who played it for the PvP.

This has to be a joke or some way to smear a company they got fired from.

Iselin

rojoArcueid said:

... but EQ3 battle royale? LOL keep it dead please.

And fire the idiot who thinks a battle royale EQ3 would compete with Pantheon in any way, shape or form. 

SBFord

Totally agree with all the BR nonsense this "rumored" development dish seems to indicate. The only way they could conceivably do it in an MMO like EQ3 would be to somehow tailor aspects of battle royale into GvG or multi-faction territory control with "disputed lands". Maybe? 

Either way, seems to lack credibility....though who'd have figured 2 years ago that BR would have ever taken off as it has? Someone's got to iterate on battle royale so...maybe?

MadFrenchie

SBFord said:

Totally agree with all the BR nonsense this "rumored" development dish seems to indicate. The only way they could conceivably do it in an MMO like EQ3 would be to somehow tailor aspects of battle royale into GvG or multi-faction territory control with "disputed lands". Maybe? 

Either way, seems to lack credibility....though who'd have figured 2 years ago that BR would have ever taken off as it has? Someone's got to iterate on battle royale so...maybe?

I can see the magical Elven bus now, with a mage holding reins on the top casting slow fall on every player as they bail out the back.

JeroKane

Then they can't call it EverQuest 3. People will expect a new RPG MMO then, not a Battle Royale game.

Call it "Battle for Norrath" or "Norrath: Battle Royale" or something....hell "EverQuest: Battle Royale".

Anything but EverQuest 3.

Sovrath

JeroKane said:

Then they can't call it EverQuest 3. People will expect a new RPG MMO then, not a Battle Royale game.

Call it "Battle for Norrath" or "Norrath: Battle Royale" or something....hell "EverQuest: Battle Royale".

Anything but EverQuest 3.

Well, now wait a minute ...

Besides the fact that this is an unsubstantiated rumor from someone who "claims" they were an employee (I can easily see some gamer just saying this "shit" because they think it's funny) one can easily see an Everquest game that incorporates some sort of battle royale feature between the factions. Sort of like Cyrodiil in Elder Scrolls Online but "battle royale".

That doesn't eliminate the idea that a full blown MMORPG is also part of that mix.

Though, if this is true it just feels like jumping on the bandwagon and not in time because "Battle Royale" is so "now" and not a few years from now when an mmorpg could even be released.

voltt

This sounds fake to me

k61977

Sovrath said:

JeroKane said:

Then they can't call it EverQuest 3. People will expect a new RPG MMO then, not a Battle Royale game.



Call it "Battle for Norrath" or "Norrath: Battle Royale" or something....hell "EverQuest: Battle Royale".



Anything but EverQuest 3.

Well, now wait a minute ...

Besides the fact that this is an unsubstantiated rumor from someone who "claims" they were an employee (I can easily see some gamer just saying this "shit" because they think it's funny) one can easily see an Everquest game that incorporates some sort of battle royale feature between the factions. Sort of like Cyrodiil in Elder Scrolls Online but "battle royale".

That doesn't eliminate the idea that a full blown MMORPG is also part of that mix.

Though, if this is true it just feels like jumping on the bandwagon and not in time because "Battle Royale" is so "now" and not a few years from now when an mmorpg could even be released.

I agree with JeroKane. If you are going to call something a part 3 then it needs to follow the other games as an RPG. I know all of this is just hot air because daybreak is most likely going to disappear in a couple months from now which will kill off a lot of major IP's unless they are sold. A battle royal is in no way shape or form an RPG, it is a pvp centered lobby game at best.

Sovrath

k61977 said:

Sovrath said:

JeroKane said:

Then they can't call it EverQuest 3. People will expect a new RPG MMO then, not a Battle Royale game.



Call it "Battle for Norrath" or "Norrath: Battle Royale" or something....hell "EverQuest: Battle Royale".



Anything but EverQuest 3.

Well, now wait a minute ...

Besides the fact that this is an unsubstantiated rumor from someone who "claims" they were an employee (I can easily see some gamer just saying this "shit" because they think it's funny) one can easily see an Everquest game that incorporates some sort of battle royale feature between the factions. Sort of like Cyrodiil in Elder Scrolls Online but "battle royale".

That doesn't eliminate the idea that a full blown MMORPG is also part of that mix.

Though, if this is true it just feels like jumping on the bandwagon and not in time because "Battle Royale" is so "now" and not a few years from now when an mmorpg could even be released.

I agree with JeroKane. If you are going to call something a part 3 then it needs to follow the other games as an RPG. I know all of this is just hot air because daybreak is most likely going to disappear in a couple months from now which will kill off a lot of major IP's unless they are sold. A battle royal is in no way shape or form an RPG, it is a pvp centered lobby game at best.

Yeah but this is neither here nor there simply because the IP belongs to someone else.

If they want to create an rpg and incorporate a themed tetris type game as part of it, they will.

Just becuase players think it should be x, y and z doesn't mean it will be.

Like all the Elder Scrolls players who say Elder Scrolls online isn't an Elder Scrolls game. Well, it is whether people like it or not.

Albatroes

EQ3 focusing on Battle Royal and set to compete with Pantheon....

I dont think I've read so much horse shyte in one sentence before. Then again, I did just learn that Moonlight Blade has implemented a battle royal feature in their game so eh...

ScottJeslis

Well unless DCUO was impacted by the layoffs they still put out regular content with a "Death of Superman" event coming:

https://www.mmorpg.com/dc-universe-online/columns/whats-new-with-dcuo-1000012687

It's just a question of what impact the layoffs had on the team.

Albatroes

ScottJeslis said:

Well unless DCUO was impacted by the layoffs they still put out regular content with a "Death of Superman" event coming:



https://www.mmorpg.com/dc-universe-online/columns/whats-new-with-dcuo-1000012687



It's just a question of what impact the layoffs had on the team.

Yeah, it is kind of weird seeing the DCUO article just below this one, seeing "Plenty of New Content" etc and then see the rest of their games pretty much sunsetting.

Sovrath

Albatroes said:

EQ3 focusing on Battle Royal and set to compete with Pantheon....

I dont think I've read so much horse shyte in one sentence before. Then again, I did just learn that Moonlight Blade has implemented a battle royal feature in their game so eh...

exactly.

Also, one has to remember that besides the fact this is unsubstantiated, just because someone says it doesn't mean it's the whole story or even has enough pertinent details to allow one to make more sense of it.

kjempff

trolololbait

centkin

Everquest 3 -- the next warhammer online.

cheyane

Fake news ! Fake news!

Hey everyone breaks their contracts even porn stars.

Mendel

Sovrath said:
If they want to create an rpg and incorporate a themed tetris type game as part of it, they will.

Themed Tetris-style game?  Embedded in an RPG?  Are you suggesting /gems2?