EverQuest II: Age of Discovery
Encyclopedia
Everquest II: Age of Discovery is the eighth EverQuest II
expansion pack
from Sony Online Entertainment
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MMO. Free players will be restricted in what they can access and utilize, members will be able to upgrade to "Silver" for a small one time fee to get more access. A "Gold" membership will be the same as a current monthly subscription, paying a standard monthly MMO subscription rate but with full access to all areas and features.
EverQuest II
EverQuest II is a 3D fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by Sony Online Entertainment , based on EverQuest, and shipped on 8 November 2004...
expansion pack
Expansion pack
An expansion pack, expansion set, or supplement is an addition to an existing role-playing game, tabletop game or video game. These add-ons usually add new game areas, weapons, objects, and/or an extended storyline to a complete and already released game...
from Sony Online Entertainment
Sony Online Entertainment
Sony Online Entertainment is a game development and game publishing division of Sony that is best known for creating massively multiplayer online games, including EverQuest, EverQuest II, The Matrix Online, PlanetSide, Star Wars Galaxies, Free Realms, and Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, DC Universe...
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Subscription model change
In tandem with the launch of this expansion, SOE is also converting EQ2 into a fully free-to-playFree-to-play
Free-to-play refers to any video game that has the option of allowing its players to play without paying. The model was first popularly used in early massively multiplayer online games targeted towards casual gamers, before finding wider adoption among games released by major video game...
MMO. Free players will be restricted in what they can access and utilize, members will be able to upgrade to "Silver" for a small one time fee to get more access. A "Gold" membership will be the same as a current monthly subscription, paying a standard monthly MMO subscription rate but with full access to all areas and features.