Bringing Back the Forgotten Faces of the PS2's EverQuest Online Adventures

There's just so much that is depressing about the disappearance of an online game. When a conventional single-player game reaches the end of its commercial life, the original hardware and a copy of the disc are often enough to revisit it decades later. Online games aren't quite so fortunate. Their servers disappear, the communities move on, and entire worlds become inaccessible, preserved only through screenshots, videos and the memories of the people who once called them home.EverQuest Online Adventures is one of those games. Released for the PlayStation 2 in February 2003, Sony Online Entertainment's ambitious MMORPG brought the world of Norrath to console players at a time when online gaming was still finding its feet outside the PC. It was a rather remarkable achievement for the hardware at the time, offering a persistent fantasy world where players could explore, form groups, complete quests and build friendships with people they might never meet in person.Sony Online…