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EverQuest launched in March 1999. In 2019, the game celebrated its 20th anniversary, a milestone few games enjoy. The history of EverQuest is made up of the stories of the players who have logged millions, even billions of hours on its servers, and no players have as many stories, or stories as epic, as the people who have contributed to it for two decades and counting.

Better Together: Stories of EverQuest collects some of those stories. Within these pages, developers recount the game’s earliest days, how its champions persevered over sports games to create it, how elements of its DNA came about. Although the emphasis is squarely on the build-up to the game’s launch in 1999, some chapters spanning oral histories and Q-and-A-style interviews share other anecdotes and the origin stories of other innovations.