Line #1 Trivia/EverQuestII


1	* ActingForTwo: Outside of the leads, everyone in the voice cast does this. With Creator/BillFarmer, Creator/{{David Lodge\|AmericanActor}}, Creator/DwightSchultz, Creator/JimWard, Creator/GreggBerger and Creator/RobinAtkinDownes being the most prominent with their role count.
2	* FranchiseKiller: Not for the usual reasons - Everquest 2 is a perfectly fine game on its own merits, or at least the reviews have always been mixed to positive. However, it was released the same time as Videogame/WorldOfWarcraft - and the effect was splitting the Everquest franchise's player base in half. Morever, Everquest 2's original playerbase of approximately 500K hemorrhaged within the first year, many of whom switched over to [=WoW=] rather than returning to [=EQ1=]. The graphical capabilities to handle [=EQ2=] were also prohibitively high, which did the game and the franchise alike no favors.
3	* TrollingCreator: While not being malicious towards the playerbase, the developers are playing a joke at their expense. Certain players joked on the Discord about requesting a cheesecake mount, with the developers playing along with the idea. Come [[AprilFoolsEpisode Bristlebane's Day]] in 2024, along with the Herald of Bristlebane camp in Rivervale for the Year of Darkpaw celebration, there's now a mount research NPC who will let players research "Cheescake", a purple Bovich mount. The mount exists, and has stats that makes it one of the best in the Ballads of Zimara expansion. The joke is that it costs a very real 357 days to finish researching without grinding out mount research reduction tokens from weekly overland quests. This means that if this NPC who is tied to a limited time event ends up staying around afterward, the first player won't be able to claim this mount until after the next expansion introduces mounts that are easier to obtain and will have better stats by the time Cheesecake can be claimed, and will tie up the mount research bar until it finishes.
4	* {{Vaporware}}: "Vaporzone" or "Vaporcontent" would be more accurate, but it's the same general thing.
5	** New Halas was pushed back for almost two years after the original planned release date.
6	** When ''Destiny of Velious'' came out, players exploring the old world zones with their new flying mounts found a few remnants of what appears to be unfinished content. Most notable among these is an air dock in The Bonemire that was never used for anything and left inaccessible.
7	* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Some early preview articles in gaming magazines stated that the LevelCap would be 100 to start, and would probably be increased to 200 or so eventually. This was scrapped fairly early on, with the game having a starting max level of 50 like the original, and each ExpansionPack that increased the level cap raising it by increments of 10 levels.
8	** Anybody with a flying mount will notice what looks like an instance in the Overrealm, because there is one that the developers abandoned when creating the second expansion.
9	** One piece of concept art dubbed ''Exodus of the Knights of Marr'', visible while waiting for zones to load, shows that leather armor almost had shoulder pads.

Context Trivia / EverQuestII