EverQuester

plural EverQuesters

1. A player of the 3D fantasy-themed massively multiplayer online role-playing game EverQuest.

   Want to spend hours just chatting with and annoying other EverQuesters? It’s your call.

   2003 January, Shane Bettenhausen, “EverQuest Online Adventures”, in Electronic Gaming Monthly, number 162, page 86

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   Well, millions of Quake freaks would beg to differ, but there’s no doubting the depths of the Everquesters’^([sic]) 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.

   1999 June 21, Michael Krantz, “Grab Your Breastplate!: Everquest^([sic]) reinvents the Web role-playing game”, in Time, volume 153, number 24, page 63

   The new race and its new tracts of land have been welcomed with open arms by EverQuesters.

   2000 September, Alex Handy, “EverQuest: Ruins of Kunark”, in Computer Gaming World, number 194, page 118

   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.

   2001 April, “EQ Banned: eBay Cracks Down on Item Farmers”, in PC PowerPlay, number 59, page 13

   Internet humor is abundant on EverQuest in particular, depicting the lifestyle of an EverQuester as a comical addict, hooked on “digital crack” or EverCrack.

   2001 February 15, John VanDenburgh, “Caught in the web: Thousands of gamers have been bitten by online role-playing bug”, in The Arizona Republic, 111th year, number 273, page 35

   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.

   2002 January, Richie Shoemaker, “Laser Squad Nemesis”, in PC Zone, number 111, page 89