“Here’s the 50,000 foot view:
It’s called Legends of Norrath. It’s an MMO Card/Strategy game built directly into both EverQuest and EverQuest 2. It will allow EQ and EQ 2 players to challenge each other, or allow people to play from outside of either game and challenge people who are playing inside. The game itself is literally a part of both clients, and it’s incredibly fun to play. The first set (called Oathbound) has 375 cards. In addition, we have loot cards for each game that have some awesome in-game items, some of which are extremely rare (new mounts for example).
We’ve made it extremely easy to redeem stuff in-game and I have to hand it to the teams.. it’s very well integrated into both EQ and EQ2. We have a full tournament system and card store built right in. The cool thing is that you don’t have to buy things if you don’t want to. We’re putting card packs into both games as drops, so if a person doesn’t want to purchase anything.. they don’t have to. We’re also giving away starter decks to people day 1.
The game has been playable for many months now, and we’ve had the whole company involved in the game. It was developed out of our Denver office by the ex Worlds Apart team that’s now SOE-Denver. At Fan Faire we’re announcing we are allowing all FF attendees to be part of the closed beta test (frankly the game is ready to launch now.. but we want to let the community have time to give us suggestions) which begins right after Fan Faire.”
