EverQuest has marked its 25th anniversary.

EverQuest marks its 25th anniversary — 84 original characters are still playing the game

It is EverQuest’s 25th anniversary, and the online game’s owner Daybreak Game Company is marking the celebration with some gifts for fans.

It has been twenty-five years of quests completed, achievements earned, missions accomplished, zones traveled to and from, items and commodities crafted, and everything else under the Norrathian sun.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.