Landmark (video game)

Landmark
Developer(s) Daybreak Game Company
Publisher(s) Daybreak Game Company
Composer(s) Jeremy Soule[1]
Engine Forgelight Engine
Platform(s) Microsoft Windows
Release date(s)
  • Spring 2016
Genre(s) Massively multiplayer online role-playing game

Landmark is an upcoming massively multiplayer online role-playing game and development tool. Currently in closed beta,[2] Landmark was being developed alongside EverQuest Next by Daybreak Game Company (formerly Sony Online Entertainment), EverQuest Next was canceled in march 2016[3] but Daybreak stated Landmark development would continue. The original name of the game was EverQuest Next Landmark, but that switched to simply Landmark in March 2014.[4]

Development

In April 2014, Dave Georgeson, director of development on the EverQuest franchise, told Polygon in the interview that "Sony Online [Daybreak] won't ever be finished making Landmark," meaning that the game will be constantly developed indefinitely.[5]

In June 2015, it was announced that Daybreak Game Company shifted its focus of development from Landmark to EverQuest Next, meaning that "any features that are Landmark-only are lower in priority and will have to wait until we have time to come back to them."[6]

In March 2016, The Daybreak Games president Russell Shanks announced that EverQuest Next had been cancelled.[7] Later, a executive producer of EverQuest and EverQuest II announced that Landmark would be launching in Spring of 2016, explaining that Landmark had become more than a building tool for EverQuest Next, and that it has evolved into its own game with "its own unique identity and purpose"[8]

References

  1. ↑ "Composer Jeremy Soule signs exclusivity deal with SOE for EverQuest Next and Landmark". VG247.com.
  2. ↑ "Landmark FAQ". SOE. Retrieved 26 June 2014.
  3. ↑ "Cancelation of EverQuest Next". Daybreak Games.
  4. ↑ "EverQuest Next Landmark is now just Landmark". MMO Attack. 25 March 2014. Retrieved 7 May 2014.
  5. ↑ Samit Sarkar. "How Landmark forced Sony Online to change its usual development model". Polygon.
  6. ↑ "Landmark Team Shifts Focus to EverQuest Next". GameSpot.
  7. ↑ "EQN News: A Letter from Daybreak's President". Daybreak Game Company. 11 March 2016.
  8. ↑ "Landmark Launching Spring 2016!".

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