EverQuester

English Etymology From en w:EverQuest er occupation. Pronunciation en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-EverQuester.wav US Noun EverQuester,EverQuester + EverQuesters A player of the 3D fantasy-themed massively multiplayer online role-playing game EverQuest. en Michael Krantz Grab Your Breastplate!: Everquest reinvents the Web role-playing game Time 153 24 21 June 1999 63 https://archive.org/details/time-1999-06-14/Time%201999-06-21/page/63/mode/1up Well, millions of Quake freaks would beg to differ, but there’s no doubting the depths of the Everquesters’ passions; already tales are circulating of companies’ banning the game from their in-house machines and college girlfriends stealing the discs from their boyfriends’ PCs. en Alex Handy EverQuest: Ruins of Kunark w:Computer Gaming World 194 September 2000 118 https://archive.org/details/Computer_Gaming_World_Issue_194/page/n119/mode/1up The new race and its new tracts of land have been welcomed with open arms by EverQuesters. en EQ Banned: eBay Cracks Down on Item Farmers w:PC PowerPlay 59 April 2001 13 https://archive.org/details/PCPowerplay-059-2001-04/page/n12/mode/1up Such players, say the EverQuesters, discount the fun involved in questing and, due to their desire to get quality items, increase a propensity among players for camping near monster hotspots. en John VanDenburgh Caught in the web: Thousands of gamers have been bitten by online role-playing bug w:The Arizona Republic 111th year 273 15 February 2001 35 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/124574679/ Internet humor is abundant on EverQuest in particular, depicting the lifestyle of an EverQuester as a comical addict, hooked on “digital crack” or EverCrack. en Richie Shoemaker Laser Squad Nemesis w:PC Zone 111 January 2002 89 https://archive.org/details/PC_Zone_111_January_2002/page/89/mode/1up Community is certainly something Gollop and his Codo cohorts are keen to build up, for while Nemesis won’t be offering the same kind of persistent world EverQuesters enjoy for 15 bucks a month, for the same price you will get six months of tactical gameplay, in which each battle won gradually gets you higher and higher up the Nemesis league table. en Shane Bettenhausen EverQuest Online Adventures w:Electronic Gaming Monthly 162 January 2003 86 https://archive.org/details/electronic-gaming-monthly-issue-162-january-2003/page/86/mode/1up Want to spend hours just chatting with and annoying other EverQuesters? It’s your call. en New Scientist and Science Journal 2003 44 That places the playtime of the 400,000-strong nation of EverQuesters higher than that created by the full-time work of countries such as Syria, Egypt and China. en CopperAngel; Sharkdog EverQuest I to EverQuest II EverQuest II: Prima Official Game Guide w:Prima Games 2004 6 https://archive.org/details/EverQuest_II_Prima/page/n6/mode/1up 0-7615-4502-6 Hard-core EverQuesters will see new challenges, keeping many of the great elements that were integrated over the years, but other MOGs have helped improve the genre since EverQuest’s release as a first-generation MOG, and EQII takes advantage of some of those improvements, as well. en The New Atlantis 2005 13 Friends and family members of EverQuesters often feel abandoned and angry about the amount of time (nearly one day a week for the average player) that their loved ones spend with the game. en Mikael Jakobsson Questing for Knowledge—Virtual Worlds as Dynamic Processes of Social Interaction Ralph Schroeder; Ann-Sofie Axelsson Avatars at Work and Play: Collaboration and Interaction in Shared Virtual Environments Computer Supported Cooperative Work volume 34 Springer 2006 218 https://archive.org/details/avatarsatworkpla0000unse/page/218/mode/1up 1-4020-3883-6 Monk says, “Bye bye Everquesters ... monk gona go FD [feign death is a monk specific ability used to fool monsters that you are dead] one last time in Qeynos [one of the hometowns] .... if i knew you, well met ...... see you on EQ2 [Everquest 2] or WoW [World of Warcraft]” en Kate Berens; Geoff Howard The Rough Guide to Videogames w:Rough Guides August 2008 40–41 https://archive.org/details/roughguidetovide0000bere/page/40/mode/2up 978-1-84353-995-7 Some Everquesters gave up their day jobs to turn pro, building up virtual collections to sell en Beverly Gordon Textiles: The Whole Story: Uses, Meanings, Significance w:Thames & Hudson 2011 262 https://archive.org/details/textileswholesto0000gord_d1o7/page/262/mode/1up 978-0-500-51566-2 In the magical realm of “Everquesters,” where players from around the world create characters who travel through different “planes of power,” there are graduated levels of shawl quests involving ever-more powerful textiles. en terms containing italics en Video games