Someone call my doctor, nutritionist, and accountant, and find me enough provisions to last until I die. With Sony’s multitude of announcements over free to play, the titles have been falling like dominos. Everquest 2, Planetside 2, DC Universe, Pirates of the Burning Sea, and the possibility of Vanguard at some point, the idea that Everquest might go free to play is both exciting and unsurprising at the same time. So, behold! Everquest is moving free to play in March.
So what can I expect for free, you ask patiently. Everything, well mostly. Everquest is following a similar tier of payment to its predecessors. Tiers are divided between free, silver (past subscribers and gold subscribers. Free players have access to all content up to the seventeenth expansion (House of Thule) with Veil of Alaris purchasable. Free players are restricted to Human, Erudite, Barbarian, and Gnome races, as well as warrior, cleric, wizard, and rogue classes, with the rest purchasable. Free and silver members are also restricted to rank 1 spells, among a few other restrictions you might expect. Bag slots, mail and chat, guild, coin purse, quest limit, etc.
you can find the whole matrix here, there is really too much to discuss here.
More on the transition as it appears.
MMO Fallout 
Dear Mmofallout,
Thanks, on a related note, Using newer computers to get Everquest running has been a big headache for me (long story). So, i want to buy (or build) a cheap computer that is optimised especially for playing Everquest online.
What i have learnt so far, is that multicore processors with hyper threading are troublesome.
(Additional point, but not essential: i don’t have much room under my desk. So ideally it needs to be a small computer) Also, no laptops!
I look forward to your next post