16 Years of EverQuest: All Access Giveaway

We have 16 membership codes to give away to 16 lucky winners--enter now!

The giveaway has ended!

Winners will be contacted and announced by 11:59pm PT on Thursday, March 26th.

Happy Birthday to EverQuest! We've teamed up with Daybreak Games to give away 30 days worth of All Access membership to 16 lucky people! Continue after the jump for all the details.


Obligatory Information

  • No purchase necessary, but you need to register for a free account with ZAM if you haven't yet
  • We don't care which country you live in, anyone can redeem the code
  • The contest begins whenever this article goes live on Monday, March 16, 2015 and ends at 11:59pm Pacific Time on Tuesday, March 24, 2015
  • There are sixteen (16) codes for thirty (30) days of All Access membership, so there will be sixteen (16) individual winners
  • One entry per person
  • ZAM staff and their immediate family are not eligible. Sorry, hubby!
  • Daybreak employees and their immediate family are not eligible. Sorry, Roshen!

How to Enter

  • Log in to your ZAM account (registering is free!)
  • Post a comment as a response to this article telling us something you love about EverQuest. A favorite zone, a cherished memory, a funny story—whatever you want to share!
  • Deadline for entries is 11:59pm Pacific Time on Tuesday, March 24, 2015

How We Choose

  • Valid entries will be entered into a random blind drawing
  • The winners will be announced by 11:59pm Pacific Time on Thursday, March 26, 2015
  • The code and redemption instructions will be sent via private message on ZAM
  • ZAM and Daybreak are not responsible for an unredeemed or lost code

There's all our mumbo-jumbo... good luck!


         

         

Ann "Cyliena" Hosler, Managing Editor

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one of my fondest memories of Everquest
# Mar 18 2015 at 3:30 AM Rating: Decent
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One of my best eq memories is back in 2004 when i started playing full time and seriously. On my necromancer I would ding level 20 then die go back to level 19. Warsliks Woods was a new place for me at the time, I would attempt to retrieve my corpse I would keep dying because mob would disrupt spell so could not feign death. Out of frustration almost deleted toon but my sister on her level 60 or 65 at the time Druid helped me. I miss the days you eitiher had to fight to get your corpse back because had all your money, gear on it or wait a couple days for it to pop in shadowrest zone to retrieve it. There was no corpse summoner or guild hall porter. Sadly that is one of the missing elements that made eq fun. You had to come up an idea to keep from dying or team up with a higher level someone with more exprience: from that you could start a friendship.
EQ
# Mar 18 2015 at 12:00 AM Rating: Decent
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EQ is a love hate relationship....you love and hate everything in it....you love some people ( usually guildies) and hate others (dirtbags on my ignore list)..you love some zones and hate others....you love some raids and hate others....you love some quests and hates others....
I love raiding, hate progression quests...love the game hate the devs with the NERF BAT ....love my characters, hate leveling and gearing them all.

The thing I love the most are those that still play the game, The thing I hate the most are missing the ones no longer showing up to play on my friends list and those that will R.I.P. Forever!
Halas
# Mar 17 2015 at 10:58 PM Rating: Decent
I still remember back in Kanark days starting my first Character - Barbarian Warrior in Halas. Venturing out into the Tundra and being completely freaked out by a Giant named Polar bear running towards me with some psycho barbarian. Oh he isnt attacking me. Thats a relief. But nearly everything else killed me. Oh the Soloists. Buggered named Skelletons always supprising us newbies in the valleys arround the place. Oh and then stumbling blind into Blackburrow (no torches in the tunnel back then) only to be slammed down by red cons too hard for me to handle - then having to corpse recover through the same blindness.
Fun times!
Planes of Power
# Mar 17 2015 at 10:49 PM Rating: Decent
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Completing planes of power was a very good time and Quarm at the end was a satisfying feeling.

Edited, Mar 18th 2015 12:50am by Amadeas
EQ memorys
# Mar 17 2015 at 10:12 PM Rating: Decent
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I remember a good day back in the day getting 6 AAs in WoS shortly after OoW released! spending hours to regain mana, sitting, chatting with people, making new friends, grouping with others cause it was a requirement, anything you could do solo was way low leveled stuff, have a lot of great memories from this game in the past 13 years of playing!
The Music
# Mar 17 2015 at 9:29 PM Rating: Decent
One of the many things i love about EQ is the music, Though I don't play with it on all the time, when i want to immerse myself in the world a little more it's wonderful for that. To pick a few of favorites, the Natimbi zone, Plane of Knowledge, and strangely - the old midi merchant tune.
Funny memory
# Mar 17 2015 at 9:12 PM Rating: Decent
I was just telling some guildies this story tonight. When veil of alaris first came out me and a friend went to argath for the first time. In running down the big spiral ramp we both fell to our death and someone below shouted "It's raining corpses".
Ramick Strongfury Guild Leader of Mithril Web

Edited, Mar 17th 2015 10:13pm by ramick
Favorite Memories
# Mar 17 2015 at 8:55 PM Rating: Decent
I can not pick just one since I have had a blast on this game since a friend got me started on it. I enjoy talking and learning with others on the game. I would recommend this game to anyone who asks about it.
First big event of EQ
# Mar 17 2015 at 8:39 PM Rating: Decent
First big event was the undead invasion in Qeynos Hills. was a baby druid and was hunting just outside Surefall Glade entrance. When night came all of these red con agro undead mobs came running after me. I ran like a little school girl ran past the guards who attacked the undead. So I decided to help them by casting nukes at the undead. How was I to know that the rain line of spells would damage a guard..... Little did I know that those guards hit really really hard......
favorite memories
# Mar 17 2015 at 7:58 PM Rating: Decent
I remember first starting up after my brother had played a couple years, and thinking, this should be fun. It was, and still is. I made a human Paladin, and went to work. having to work so hard for any gear really made for a challenge for someone who is not very computer savvy. One purchase I made that surprised many people I was playing with at the time was the Blade of Disruption, when I was only level 23 or 24. Everyone thought I needed to be level 66, but I pointed out that was only the recommended level, not required. Having got it for a cheap price, I had a great 1-hand slash weapon that grew with me for many levels. This, of course, was before all of the newer weapons that came out in Underfoot and later, maybe a bit before. They learned then to read carefully what the write-up says about weapons and armor. My best moment in helping out.
Had an account
# Mar 17 2015 at 7:58 PM Rating: Decent
So, I can't lie. I've never played EQ, but EQII from the start. So, my best memory from the game is getting slaughtered by the X2 in Nektropos Castle. Had lots of wipes there! That and being picked off by the epics in commonlands.

Edited, Mar 17th 2015 10:00pm by Nuhus
Corpse ransom
# Mar 17 2015 at 7:39 PM Rating: Decent
One of my best & worst memories from is from back in 2002 when I was at around level 10-12 or so, and had died in Everfrost, and had lost my corpse. Some guy had found my corpse and offered to drag it, so gave him /consent. He then dragged it and hid it and wanted 200 plat to give it back! I had never seen that much plat total in my life at that point.

So I /ooc soandso is ransoming my corpse for 200 plat, can anyone help me find it?

Entire zone starting looking, and even called in friends and guild mates to help look. We finally found it stuck up on top of one of the mountains there.

I made a few friends that day, so it turned out for the best, and I did get my corpse and gear back!
Nostalgic
# Mar 17 2015 at 7:21 PM Rating: Decent
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The best thing I love about EQ, is the friends I play with. We're all oldschool EQ players when were younger, returning for some throwback fun on the weekends.
Hefty Lefty and Sneaky Pete
# Mar 17 2015 at 7:09 PM Rating: Decent
'Sneaky Pete' and 'Hefty Lefty' were GMs offering their services one night to perform 'mob-hits' on EQ players for cash. Well, Scooba and Undertoww just couldn't pass up the chance to put out a couple of 'contracts'... on their own guildies! Moments later, the unsuspecting Rugab and Quendra were 'rubbed-out' as they were playing the game.
Hefty Lefty and Sneaky Pete
# Mar 19 2015 at 1:10 PM Rating: Decent
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Now THAT was a fun night bro! haha
16 Years of EverQuest: All Access Giveaway
# Mar 17 2015 at 6:52 PM Rating: Decent
My brother and I were playing and I decided to have a few drinks (in game) didn't know what it did to speech was so funny. My brother kept wondering what I was saying.
Good times when the wife started playing. She made a druid in Kelethin and I made a ranger. When she finally made her way down to the ground I asked her to follow me but because I had gone over one of those tiny hills, she couldn't see me. I told her to go straight ahead but she had turned a bit. She was getting frustrated because a big old bat was trying to kill her. When she asked where to go Isaid turn...no direction just turn. This made her mad because on matter how much she turned she could not see me. Finally caught up to her and we kept playing with some of those same things happening. No idea how she kept playing after all that but she still does to this day.
Had some real good times with a bunch of other real life friends that played, did a lot of LDoN's.
Great game, great times.
16 Years of Everquest: All Access Giveaway
# Mar 17 2015 at 6:37 PM Rating: Decent
Some of my fondest memories are from kunark era, playing in LOIO with some friends. I started in 1999 and when kunark launched, i remember being chased by drachnids in FV trying to get to LOIO zone in the river. LOIO was great and eventually train central Karnor's Castle. As a monk though, i didn't have to worry about much, as long as FD didn't fail :)
Huge 3D gamespace in 2000
# Mar 17 2015 at 6:31 PM Rating: Decent
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Gnomish Greetings!

My fondest memory was looking around in the game and realizing how incredibly huge the game was. For several days I ran from Ak'Anon to Qeynos to complete a quest when I was just level 16 to complete a quest there.
Most aggravating memory
# Mar 17 2015 at 6:26 PM Rating: Decent
Chasing around the Karanas for what seemed like a week trying to find the damned a wandering spirit for my shaman epic.
Fondest Memory
# Mar 17 2015 at 5:41 PM Rating: Decent
I just finished my bst's 2.0 and was in the last zone for the turn (forget it now) and the Shar Vahl kitty was summoning all the other bsts. When they all got there I was humbled and had goosebumps reading the lore. Even though that is one of the worst 2.0s to do, it was well worth the effort to see that.
having a crappy computer
# Mar 17 2015 at 5:23 PM Rating: Decent
and getting to see drakkin bewbs while waiting for her armor graphics to load
Velious will always be my favorite
# Mar 17 2015 at 5:23 PM Rating: Decent
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I remember when Velious first launched. I joined EQ in late 1999, early 2000, so I missed the Kunark launch. Velious was the first time I was in the game when new areas opened, and I remember the joy of exploring the new content, not knowing what lurked around the next corner.

Riding the boat to Iceclad, seeing the dragon bridge for the first time, taking a nosedive off of the edge of the ramp to Kael Drakkel, stepping foot into Thurgadin, and descending into the depths of the Crystal Caverns; all of these experiences hold a special place in my heart.
16 Years of EverQuest: All Access Giveaway
# Mar 17 2015 at 5:18 PM Rating: Good
I'm loving the TLP servers still. Working through House of Thule, which is a really good expansion.
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# Mar 17 2015 at 4:14 PM Rating: Decent
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I love how expansive the game is and was even when it first started. Even simple things like running from Qeynos to Freeport could, and did, take an hour even in the best conditions. That all changed when I rolled a druid and could port across the Karanas.

--Andreii Blackenedsoul
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Drinal server
Dark Elf 4 life
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