Trivia / EverQuest II

• Acting for Two: Outside of the leads, everyone in the voice cast does this. With Bill Farmer, David Lodge, Dwight Schultz, Jim Ward, Gregg Berger and Robin Atkin Downes being the most prominent with their role count.
• Franchise Killer: 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 World of Warcraft - 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.
• Vaporware: "Vaporzone" or "Vaporcontent" would be more accurate, but it's the same general thing.
  • New Halas was pushed back for almost two years after the original planned release date.
  • 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.
• What Could Have Been: Some early preview articles in gaming magazines stated that the Level Cap 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 Expansion Pack that increased the level cap raising it by increments of 10 levels.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • There's a game mechanic that was tossed out... the ability to steal house items while doing a raid; a chair from somewhere in Everfrost being the only example of that concept.