16 Years of EverQuest: All Access GiveawayMar 16th, 2015 at 2:48 PM by Cyliena

We have 16 membership codes to give away to 16 lucky winners--enter now!

The giveaway has ended!

Winners will be contacted and announced by 11:59pm PT on Thursday, March 26th.

Happy Birthday to EverQuest! We've teamed up with Daybreak Games to give away 30 days worth of All Access membership to 16 lucky people! Continue after the jump for all the details.

Obligatory Information

  • No purchase necessary, but you need to register for a free account with ZAM if you haven't yet
  • We don't care which country you live in, anyone can redeem the code
  • The contest begins whenever this article goes live on Monday, March 16, 2015 and ends at 11:59pm Pacific Time on Tuesday, March 24, 2015
  • There are sixteen (16) codes for thirty (30) days of All Access membership, so there will be sixteen (16) individual winners
  • One entry per person
  • ZAM staff and their immediate family are not eligible. Sorry, hubby!
  • Daybreak employees and their immediate family are not eligible. Sorry, Roshen!

How to Enter

  • Log in to your ZAM account (registering is free!)
  • Post a comment as a response to this article telling us something you love about EverQuest. A favorite zone, a cherished memory, a funny story—whatever you want to share!
  • Deadline for entries is 11:59pm Pacific Time on Tuesday, March 24, 2015

How We Choose

  • Valid entries will be entered into a random blind drawing
  • The winners will be announced by 11:59pm Pacific Time on Thursday, March 26, 2015
  • The code and redemption instructions will be sent via private message on ZAM
  • ZAM and Daybreak are not responsible for an unredeemed or lost code

There's all our mumbo-jumbo... good luck!

         

         

Ann "Cyliena" Hosler, Managing Editor

Tags: EverQuest, giveaway, contest, DaybreakGames, Feature, News

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this one time . . .
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# Mar 18 2015 at 8:51 PM Rating: Good
FromTheFuture
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march of 2000 , Tallon Zek, i was a paladin(Moofasa) out to exp at the sister camp in Lfay with my new friend a ranger(Krispen) , after some smooth grinding we decided to put our big boy pants on and head into castle mistmoore , with a heroic charge and a load LLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEEETTTTTTTTTTSSSSSSSSSS GGGGGGGGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooo we entered . . . s p l a t long load and a train to the face . . . i still go there time to time and gather the entire zone and kill them up in the courtyard of the castle!
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Fond Memories
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# Mar 18 2015 at 7:34 PM Rating: Good
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My fondest EQ memory is playing my ranger in North Karana way back when I was still new to the game. We were camped out at the gypsy camp hunting will-o-wisps. Those buggers were social as heck though, so you had to be careful with your pulls. Well, we weren't. We had a swarm of like 20+ of them chasing us to the zoneline, which was half way across the (very large) zone.

Good times.
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BIG RAIDS
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# Mar 18 2015 at 7:16 PM Rating: Good
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I love the raiding in this game, I remember the old 90 man Zek Raids, and my first 3 kills of naggy in one day because of server crashes and reboots we killed naggy 3 times over about 7 hours lol never got a CoF on those 3 runs
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Quaded
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# Mar 18 2015 at 7:14 PM Rating: Good
brair
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I remember getting geared to the teeth in SoV then took a break, coming back during PoP, asking around where I should go to level, they say to go to plane of valor, walk in first mob I pull get quad'd and instantly die. Good times.
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Always come home
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# Mar 18 2015 at 5:52 PM Rating: Good
rescue016
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I have always liked this game, ever since it first came out and I started playing it. Even though I leave for a while for one reason or another, I always come back home to play and see old friends.
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win!!
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# Mar 18 2015 at 5:33 PM Rating: Good
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i used to drink alot, and alot of trouble came along with that. Then i got turned on to Everquest, well, i got addicted to Everquest and totally quit drinking. I havent drank a drop, or got in any trouble for 16 years!!! You usually hear about how online games can ruin lives, but Everquest saved mine.
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Kael Drakkel
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# Mar 18 2015 at 4:47 PM Rating: Excellent
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I've been playing EQ since the original game. The need to do corpse recovery and the xp loss made dying much more important than it is these days. You really thought more about what you were doing and were not recless about things. There were places and situations where you just did not want to die, as recovering from them could often be very difficult.

I remember my first time trying to get through Kael Drakkel. (For those not around when Velious first came out,you had to visit one of the teleport spires in person to collect a shard from the ground before you could get teleported there, The only way from to get to Wakening Land the first time was going through Kael.) I was so worried about having invis drop going through there, or getting lost and maybe running into the see invis mobs that I actually patched the old tutorial executable to load the Kael zone (it didn't work for every zone, but there were a lot it did). I did a couple of dry runs with that and Muse's EQ Atlas map. On the real run I managed to make it through only to die just outside. Luckily I got a rez from some people camping the giants outside the entrance, I was even luckier to get to the portal and not find the dragon Wuoshi sleeping there :)
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# Mar 18 2015 at 3:27 PM Rating: Good
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The entirety of the Scars of Velious Expansion I do not think I have ever had more fun than I did in that expansion.
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Friend made me play...
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# Mar 18 2015 at 2:12 PM Rating: Excellent
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March 1999...my friend want's me to play (he has been in Beta) ..he has me a play a (blind as a bat) Erudite Mage and we go to Toxxulia Forest. He want's me to pull. I do, and he says "Yikes! Not a yellow!" I'm looking at the spider and it does kind of look yellow. We fight and we win and he says "Phew, that was close, pull another, but not a yellow, something blue" so I look around and I pull something that looks blue and he screams "Gahhhh not a Red.....!"

You see he failed to demonstrate the use of the "C" key to consider the level of the mob.

Later we are in the city and he want's me to follow him to the next zone via a portal pad, but with lag being lag I clearly see his toon go over the pad and disappear into a nearby wall, so I go over to the wall and I am knocking myself silly, trying to step through that wall! He is typing where are you? Why is it taking so long to zone? He comes all the way back around to see what the problem is and does ROFL to see me still trying to pass through that wall.
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fave memory
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# Mar 18 2015 at 2:08 PM Rating: Excellent
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Getting my 65 chanter's epic 1.0 piece from Plane of Fear with only my brother's 67 necro helping. PoF wasn't cleared either. (This involved a lot of feign, essence emerald rezzing and pulling trickery to get the one kill). This was OoW era so not completely trivial for us (at least).

Had also taken nearly 2 real life years to wrap up the quest.
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Mermory
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# Mar 18 2015 at 1:39 PM Rating: Good
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back in 2000 ...I was playing a young warrior an got killed by a shark..cant remember the zone..but I could not find my body in the ocean an I was devastated. finally got a higher lvl necro to help me out its funny I still remember standing on the edge of watr butt nakid
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EQ
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# Mar 18 2015 at 12:53 PM Rating: Decent
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I have been playing over 15 years seen alot of changes and I generally find a zone in each expansion I enjoy playing in.I am enjoying playing in shards landing still,able to get upgrades for alts and plenty of task/quest to do in zone
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TOO solo
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# Mar 18 2015 at 11:57 AM Rating: Decent
doozi
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I first played EQ in 2001 , I started a warrior and made it to level 17 solo. Too much sitting regening health.
I played by myself mostly because I didn't know what I was doing and was afraid of messing up someone if I grouped.
My next character was a druid , which was much better at solo. It was a very large learning curve without all the online
resources we have today , so I struggled along solo going by what I saw people talking about in OOC. When I tell people today
all the dumb things I did and went through they find it hard to believe. I was level 50 when I discovered what a rez was !!. All the times
I died I simply went through all the motions of retrieving my corpse and slowly getting back my xp. One day some very nice people in a
casual guild saw me die and tried to rez me but I wouldn't take it because I didn't know what it meant. To my surprise a very nice lady
enchanter waited by my corpse until I made my way back and kindly explained to me about the rez. I was THRILLED !! to learn I could
get back so much experience. Her guild took me under their wing and taught me so much about EQ.
Today my wife and I have 5 gold accounts and play almost daily, and over the years I have made many friends and have had many great times.as well as frustrations but I keep on playing and will do so as long as I can. I'm 63 and my wife is 57 and we find it hard to talk with
friends and family about our main hobby because they of course they think we're nuts but we don't care , we're gonna keep on hackin , slashin. and blastin till the lights go out !
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Corpse Run
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# Mar 18 2015 at 11:25 AM Rating: Decent
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I remember being a very young paladin and going to Blackburrow where I had no clue where to go or how to get out. I ended up with a train on me and after running in circles made it all the way to the bottom of BB. I (being a noob) did not have any friends on the server and had to go back over and over to try and get my body with the gear on it. I managed to lose 2 levels attempting this and then finally decided to give up on and just sit in POK and beg for someone that could go get my bodies. Mind you I was on a PVP server and well people were not the nicest. Finally a character named Nehemiah (I will NEVER forget his name) went and got all my bodies for me. After talking for a while he gave me enough money to buy decent gear and we instantly were buds. He helped me level and for the next four years we were guilded together and became the best of friends. While the zones in EQ are great I believe it is the need of groups and the social interaction of the game that has kept me playing and coming back time after time. Great JOB eq developers.
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Fond memories
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# Mar 18 2015 at 10:36 AM Rating: Decent
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I have fond memories of taking on Blackburrow and the many trains of Gnolls as a result...

Happy 16th!
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# Mar 18 2015 at 10:05 AM Rating: Decent
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I have been playing everquest for sometime now, I have played many different toons but I have to say my favorite is a Shaman. I used to raid with one, but I really dont have the time for that anymore. I have been to end-game content with him on many of the older expansions. I used to really enjoy raiding Korafax, I have no idea why. I guess it was just fun.


105 Shaman
Mowlore on Drinal sever
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Fear
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# Mar 18 2015 at 9:52 AM Rating: Decent
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One of many things I love most about EverQuest was that it was a game that truly instilled awe and fear into you. So many games that have come after EverQuest completely lack this fundamental feeling. Remember that sense of wonderment when you encountered your first dragon? Or having to pan up to see the giant that was beating on you? I recall sitting for what felt like hours at the entrance of Kithicor Forest waiting for daylight to make a safe trek through.

Overtime EverQuest has lost a lot of that fear. You no longer have to worry about having enough gear stashed in your bank to re-break Plane of Fear to get your corpse. There were very real fears with very real consequences which truly made you appreciate the game, but also become even more immersed in your avatar. There were many occasions where one had to sit and weigh risk versus reward. Do I "really" want to go down that hallway? I'm not quite sure where it leads, and if I die I may not be able to get my corpse back.

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Enjoying the game
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# Mar 18 2015 at 9:49 AM Rating: Decent
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Seems these days everyone in a hurry to get to the endgame content I enjoy my mid 50s toon doing and visiting old little used zone even after playing for years I still find places I've not been before
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Legion of scales
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# Mar 18 2015 at 9:42 AM Rating: Decent
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The fight through PoP and the euphoria of finally beating Time.
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Blackburrow
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# Mar 18 2015 at 5:45 AM Rating: Decent
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For the first few months I played Everquest (over 10 years ago now) I spent nearly all the time in Blackburrow. Even when I became part of a guild (Remorseless Crusaders) Blackburrow was the first spot we grouped in. Blackburrow is still here, but I haven't been with my RC guildmates in years.
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still here
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# Mar 18 2015 at 5:41 AM Rating: Decent
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i started in 2000 and still going and still love it,i think the darkened sea is one of the best xpan's yet but 1 thing id change is up the chances for named at least a little :)
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Desert of Ro
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# Mar 18 2015 at 5:38 AM Rating: Decent
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I remember way back when I just a young Paladin starting out in Freeport, battling the evil forces of Sir Lucan and I wandered out into the Northern Desert of Ro looking for adventure. Where I ran across this dark elf by the name of Dorn B'Dynn. So I thought I would rid the world of another troublesome dark elf. Well long story short, he did a remarkably good job of ridding the world of a paladin. I was never able to recover my equipment from him and had to start over. Now whenever I'm in the area, I show him what for!!!!.
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Memoirs of a dial up player
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# Mar 18 2015 at 4:58 AM Rating: Decent
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The first time i saw EQ was in 1999. I was very interested but there were many pitfalls. I lived out in the countryand only way to play EQ was on Dial-up with a 14.4 bps modem. I became frustrated with the book in the face to mem spells and gave up after a few weeks of trying. Enter a friend at work who said you need to get on this game called Everquest, when I told him I used to play he said alot had changed and that I would enjoy it a whole lot more. He was very right. I have worn out Allahkazam and now Zam (yes I know they are the same) and have played every casting class in game i now have 2 accts. and 21 toons you may call this game an addiction but do so on your own time don't bother me while i am playing. Have enjoyed the game and probably will till the time they create interactive EQ where I can actually walk right into the game virtually and literally become one of the toons.
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# Mar 18 2015 at 4:42 AM Rating: Decent
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Back in the days of Kunark, a low 20s half elf paladin named Saulinar, decided to venture out to Warslik woods alone to covet the Bracer of Scavenging for a friend. I hunted for hours, holding the camp very well,
as long as I did not venture away from the small ruins.
All of the sudden I hear a loud growl. Fear rushes over me as I realize what the sound was. My memory flashes back to the time of adventures battling Dervish in West commonlands. Our group peacefully meditating between rounds. Then you hear that growl.
"OMG its a Hill Giant! RUN"!!!!!!! In a mad panic, I spring into a full sprint , My heart racing, and my breathing heavy. I do not know where the zone is, but I recklessly run on. The Giant is beating me to death from behind, growling at me all the way. I follow a stone trail, blinded by the, thickness of the trees, and shear terror of impending doom! ALL IS LOST. I AM GOING TO DIE! I turn to face death swinging madly. Then it hits me. "Praise to Mithaniel" this Forest giant is green to me. He falls down with a long labored moan. Hahaha.

Apparently forest giants in Warslik woods are much weaker than the hill giants in West commonlands.

So many friends, and good times to remember.
Cartyr
Saeban
Johnkelly
Baas
Treehawk
Xdeano, Xamanda
Silvercloud
Mudster, Cradoc
Tsalma
Liven
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