Producers Letter June 30, 2026

Hello and welcome to EverQuest Legends news today actually. Uh so EverQuest Legends producers letter June 30th came out today. And uh it’s pretty doozy. It announces the open pre-order beta I guess is what you call it, early access not so much, but uh pre-order beta. So you can try out the game before launch where everything gets wiped, so uh I hope that’s clear there, but so Wednesday, July 1st at noon Pacific, 3 Eastern, 2 Central. Uh the pre-order beta servers will launch and you’ll be able to log in and reserve your character and play. Uh there’s a whole bunch of servers being created. I have chosen to play on the Freeport server, so uh maybe I’ll see you there. We have a see they have a fun live stream planned for July 3rd at 3:00 p.m. with some special guests and some devs. And then we’re counting the tales of the past, talk about the plans for the future and sharing about how an all XR PvP guild called Harbingers of Thule served as the original inspiration for EverQuest Legends. Well, that’s crazy. Uh as soon as they open the pre-order beta servers, encourage everyone to have fun and be patient. We will do our best to manage the traffic as folks enter the game, but you should be reasonably expect there’s some delays in peak downtimes, all right, I mean overtimes, all right, peak times over the weekend, right? So uh I would expect it’ll be like any TLP launch in EverQuest. There’s probably going to be a queue to fur some of the servers. I know the Rivervale server seems to be the popular one, so you might uh you might want to try a different server if you’re uh looking to play immediately. After Halas might be empty, so uh I haven’t heard anybody playing on that, and so you know, do what you got to do, um what not. And uh while the game is very close to launch and ready, it is still in beta. We’re continuing to do balance passes, com- uh completing new features like spell upgrades, revamping dungeons, and fixing bugs. The game is already amazing, and it is going to be uh better. To that end, we will be releasing a post-launch roadmap soon. Oh, that’ll be nice to see. This will outline the plans they have for housing, player auction, uh Necro- Necropos, Nec- Necropos, I don’t know. Uh Castle in the fall and Kunark in the winter, and much more. I’d like to express how excited we are for everybody to join us in the game. Daybreak and Game John have worked critically hard to bring a new way to experience in Norrath. Our goals from the beginning were to capture the feeling of original EverQuest while respecting your time and accommodating as many different playstyles as possible. I believe we hit the mark, and we can’t wait to explore the world of Norrath and the future of EverQuest Legends with you all. And that is from David, the exec- executive producer of the game. And I’d like to say thank you to uh Game John and Daybreak for letting me be in the beta uh and uh participate there and make videos and all that stuff. I really appreciate that. And uh you know, definitely uh I plan to make more going forward, so uh definitely a fun time. I’m I can’t wait to see everybody get into play the game I’ve been playing and you know, getting so many questions about, so it is going to be uh it’s going to be a fun time. I’m expecting uh I I like I I’m always skeptical on game launches, so I’m I’m I’m don’t take the day off. >> [laughter] >> I truly tell that to people. Like they they say they they want to take the day off, right? And then they’re you know, sitting around this is going to be two central, right? Take a half day if you’re going to take the day off, right? Take a half day. Cuz you know, things go wrong and usually the second day is perfect and you can log in no problem. But you know, like just you know, temper your expectations and don’t get mad. I know there’s going to be there’s going to be some negativity. Like I’m going to I’m just going to be straight up and honest. There will be some negativity and you know, just just ignore it because the game is fought the game is playable. And I’ve I’ve had a blast for the last it was like two months maybe. I have no idea how long it’s been. I have like 15 days played in game. And I have I have had an absolute blast. I have not logged on EverQuest Live since I started playing this. Like that is how much fun this game is to me. And this is coming from someone who played EverQuest Live with six characters every single day for like the last four years. So [laughter] maybe five years. Like I truly think this is a very fun game. And I’ve had so much fun. You know, there’s some bugs and stuff, but you know, that’s that’s honesty. You know, there’s some there’s some of that there, but nothing that is going to ruin anything there. But definitely you know, look out for that tomorrow if you’re interested. You have to pre-order. I think you go like right somewhere right here, create account on Daybreak’s website and then you log in and then I think you can do that. You can download the game now and pre-load it and have it all ready and be ready to go. So thank you very much for watching. I hope see you tomorrow, but thank you very much for much for watching and have a fantastic day. >> Mhm.