Gates of Discord Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
Gates of Discord (GoD, GOD, Gates, or simply the Gates expansion) is the seventh expansion released for EverQuest — a Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG). The expansion focused on high-level content, providing a number of zones meant to be used by large groups of players, and many extremely powerful monsters to fight.
| Release | February 2004
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| Platforms | PC
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| Developer | Sony Online Entertainment
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| Publisher | Sony Online Entertainment
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| Genre | MMORPG
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| Predecessor | EverQuest: Lost Dungeons of Norrath
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| Sucessor | EverQuest: Omens of War
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| Gameplay | Defeating high level encounters with a large group of players.
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| Official site | Gates of Discord @ EverQuestLive.com
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The expansion takes place on the continent of Taelosia and introduced the Muramites, as well as the berserker character class.
Up to this date, Gates of Discord remains to be one of the worst game releases in the online gaming industry. It is, similar to EverQuest: Shadows of Luclin, another unfinished product by Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) which led to much criticism towards the company and its developers.
By the time that SOE began to fix Gates of Discord's content and to concern about its playerbase, many players had already quit the game — including powerful and popular guilds like Fires of Heaven, Afterlife, and Keepers of the Faith which became beta testers for the World of Warcraft.
In response to the overwhelming exile of players and the players' criticism towards the expansion, SOE organized a summit in the summer of 2004 to hear the main concerns of the playerbase towards Gates of Discord and EverQuest in general. The summit's guests included a handful of players from guild leaders and fan websites, including Woody Hearn of GU Comics.
In the end, the expansion was characterized, similar to its name, by the playerbase's discord: time sinks, unfinished and broken content, unfinished and broken software, and very little lore.General information
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