The Landmark Team is Now Focused on EverQuest Next

Don't expect EverQuest Next to launch this year.

Writing on Landmark's official site, the game's senior producer Terry "Fairan" Michaels revealed the plans for the game.

"As the team has wrapped up the various pieces related to the wipe and the bugs associated with it, we have been shifting our focus and resources over to work on the highest priority tasks and systems that will be used in EverQuest Next," Michaels said. "While we do this, we're working in areas with high amounts of creative risk. This means that while we know what we want to do, we know it will take an unknown amount of iteration, tweaking and sometimes drastic direction changes to get these in game and working the way they need to. Because of this, we simply cannot commit to any dates, because until we get much closer, even our best estimates are educated (but still fairly wild) guesses."

Michaels also guaranteed players that Landmark will still get updates, but on a less regular scedule than players have been used to over the past year. He also said that even though the team is focusing on EverQuest Next, that doesn't mean the game will be coming out this year.