Initial release date 10 June 2016 | Mode Multiplayer video game | |
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Genre Massively multiplayer online role-playing game Similar Daybreak Game Company games, MMORPGs | ||
Landmark was a massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed and published by Daybreak Game Company for Microsoft Windows. The original name of the game was EverQuest Next Landmark, but was switched to simply Landmark in March 2014. The game was released on June 10, 2016, and was playable until the servers were shut down on February 21, 2017.
Development
In April 2014, Dave Georgeson, director of development on the EverQuest series, told Polygon in the interview that "Sony Online [Daybreak] won't ever be finished making Landmark". On February 2, 2015, Sony sold Sony Online Entertainment to the investment company Columbus Nova, who renamed it Daybreak Game Company. In June 2015, it was announced that Daybreak Game Company shifted its focus of development from Landmark to EverQuest Next, meaning that "any features that are Landmark-only are lower in priority and will have to wait until we have time to come back to them."
In March 2016, The Daybreak Games president Russell Shanks announced that EverQuest Next had been cancelled. Later, an executive producer of EverQuest and EverQuest II announced that Landmark would be launching in 2016, explaining that Landmark had become more than a building tool for EverQuest Next, and that it has evolved into its own game with "its own unique identity and purpose" In January 2017, only seven months after its release, Daybreak Games announced they would be shutting down Landmark on February 21, 2017. The game servers, as well as the accompanying forums and social media channels, were also shut down.
