EverQuest was a giant of a game in every sense. Born in 1999 of Sony/Verant parentage, this massively multiplayer online roleplaying game catered to hundreds of thousands of players during its five year reign. It might not have been the first or the most innovative, but it became far and away the most polished, popular and expansive example of the genre. It also became widely know as Evercrack for its ridiculous addictive qualities, and for lurid Transatlantic stories of EverQuest related suicides, divorces and sackings.