Not surprised, it was too ambitious, and they focused to much on world destruction and tool worlds where you could "build" things (like a minecraft world) added toy part, instead of just makeing the damn game. Unless I have this mixed up wiht some other game.

"Rest assured that our passion to grow the world of EverQuest remains undiminished."

I kinda doubt that. This could be the end of Everquest for a long time.

I used to like SOE, but it was clear even back then they had management issues.
I liked Everquest II & Vanguard Saga of heroes, so it sucks to hear they ended up cancelling.

A shame Columbus Nova pulled the plug on EQ next.

not surprised. not surprised in the least.

Thats messed up. I was actually really looking forward to this game....well, not actually playing it, but seeing what people do with the world was of interest. Probably wouldve watched a bunch of let's plays involving terraforming.

lol not suprised.

Its very difficult to make a sucesssful mmo. This is now more apparant than ever.

over ambition killed them.

Its not the first time, this happend to SOE alot as well, its about project management.

You got no disagreement from me.

How great was Vanguard Saga of Heroes though?
I loved the PVE in that game, and esp the class designs and abilities
(my favorite being the Dread Knight & the deciple).

Dread Knight had debuffs and Lifetaps, to help him "semi" tank (off tank) monsters, and help debuffs for the paladin. I just loved the blink mechanics and the deal dmg to survive balanceing act it was.

It was just not very well coded eary, and too demanding for most PCs to run when it launched.
That kinda killed it, but overtime they improved the codeing and fix bugs, and pcs got faster... it was a decent game then, but by then it was already too late.

Damn I was really looking forward to this game since announcement. I even held off playing other MMO's to wait on this one. The game had some awesome ideas I wish they followed through on.

Landmark is/was a piece of garbage. I never played such a boring game in my life. Shame about EQ next, but that's classic Sony for you.