Everquest Next was one of those big hopes in the MMORPG community. Unfortunately, Sony sold SOE (abbr. for Sony Online Entertainment) and fired most of the people who worked for that company.
So another hope for a more diversified MMORPG market will not happen anytime soon. Landmark, the great Sandbox for Everquest Next, did probably also just not work out, and i believe its just based on the fact most people arent creative architects, but just gamers who want to play computer games in their spare time.
Everquest Next also did not really try to be revolutionary, but was the continued effort of Daybreak to keep the brand Everquest alive, in a genre which is dominated by Blizzard nowadays, and which allows no innovation anymore, as any game thats heavily different than blizzards MMORPG just wont be successfull.
The market also is not big enough yet for niche MMORPGs, as it seems, as like Wildstar showed.. a failed MMORPG catered to hardcore-gamers.
A successfull MMORPG nowadays would be a RPG with MMO elements, which would get rid of the idea to enforce organized group play, which always was and will be the smaller part of the playerbase that plays computer games against an environment and not against other players.
At the end, Everquest Next was just another big hope of those who want back their first time in a MMORPG.. when everything was new, when blizzards effort was fresh, and when people took first steps into the game that SOE limited to a few only..
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