The Inside Story on the Earliest Days of EverQuest

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Editor's note: Below is an interview with EverQuest co-creator Brad McQuaid, conducted by author Morgan Ramsay. McQuaid candidly discusses leaving Sony Online Entertainment at the height of EverQuest's success and the troubled history of his next major MMO, Vanguard: Saga of Heroes.





In 1999, Brad McQuaid cofounded Verant Interactive alongside 56 other game developers who were forced out of 989 Studios, a Sony company, upon the arrival of the PlayStation 2. Verant Interactive was best known for EverQuest, the seminal 3D massively multiplayer online (MMO) role-playing game. The company was later acquired by Sony Online Entertainment (SOE), which has continued to expand EverQuest into one of the largest video-game franchises in the world.

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