More and more developers are offering Classic or Legacy servers for their online role-playing games to provide fans of the original gaming experience with a virtual home. As part of the MMORPG theme week, MeinMMO presents the games for which there are these types of nostalgic journeys.
Online role-playing games evolve progressively throughout their lifespan, receiving updates and changes that can significantly alter the player experience over the years.
Unfortunately, fans of the original version often get left behind. It’s also a shame to show up late to the party and miss the beginnings of a particular game – and be unable to catch up.
It’s great that more and more developers are offering so-called Classic or Legacy servers for their MMORPGs to provide this part of the community with a home as well. As part of our big theme week, MeinMMO presents the most important online role-playing games for which there are these types of nostalgic journeys.
Both parts of EverQuest have countless expansions behind them – here’s one of the trailers:
EverQuest’s Progression Servers
Setting: Fantasy | Developer: Darkpaw Games, Daybreak | Platform: PC | Release Date: March 16, 1999 | Model: Free2Play
No other still-active MMORPG has as many years (26) and expansions (29) as the first EverQuest. If you want to experience this journey again or for the first time from the beginning, you can do so regularly since 2015 on the so-called Progression Servers.
12 of these servers have already existed over the past decade, with the two latest – Teek and Tormax – starting on May 22, 2024. These Progression Servers go through the release cycle of the expansions much faster than the original and often include special rule sets to spice up the gameplay and appeal to different types of players.
You can find all details about the EverQuest Progression Servers on everquest.com. By the way, there’s now also an Origins server for EverQuest II called Anashti Sul, which launched in June 2024 without expansion content (via everquest2.com). For both games, you need an “All Access Membership” if you want to embark on the nostalgic journey to Norrath.
Alternatively, you can just wait for the developers at Daybreak to finish their current EverQuest project, announced in September 2023. The new MMORPG is supposed to be a modern remake of the first EverQuest. You can find the development roadmap here: 25-year-old MMORPG is set to soon have a successor – What we know about EverQuest 3
