Everquest doesn’t have what you would call “sexy” graphics, so to speak, although throughout the past twelve years the game has always had a certain kind of charm to it that keeps us going back every year or so. When you take a game as old as Everquest, undoubtedly there are players who missed the first two, four, six, eight, or even ten years of development, leaving them with numerous questions. What were corpse runs like? A dangerous world.
Fippy Darkpaw is something of a running joke in Everquest, literally. He spawns outside of North Qeynos, where he shouted his threat of death, and charged headlong into a group of guards much, much higher level than him. Later on in the game, players can take part in a raid at level 85 that involves killing Fippy Darkpaw, who is much higher level and more dangerous than his Qeynos counterpart.
Why bring up Fippy? Because that is the name of the Everquest Timed Progression Server that will be launching this month. Fippy Darkpaw, the new server, will be going up February 15th, and refreshes everything in Everquest back to how it was at launch. No expansions, no updates, nothing. After certain achievements are performed, Sony will open up voting in-game for the next expansion. If the majority vote yes, the next expansion will launch with its appropriate content. If they vote no, the server will remain on that expansion for another week or so, and the voting will commence again.
In the past, progression servers on Everquest have been quite successful. If you don’t own Everquest, or are missing out on some expansions, you can check out the Where To Buy page (located at the top) and find it on sale on Steam or Direct2Drive. See you in the server on the 15th!
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