Sony Online Entertainment celebrates five years of EverQuest by releasing a number of interesting facts about the game.

To celebrate the fifth anniversary of EverQuest, Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) has today released a list of interesting facts about the game. First launched on March 16, 1999, the massively multiplayer online role-playing game is currently played by more than 420,000 people all over the world.

More than 2.5 million copies of the game and its expansions have been sold in boxes or digitally downloaded since 1999.

If stacked end to end, the total number of EverQuest boxes created would reach a height of more than 265 miles, which would stretch out of the Earth's atmosphere and past the orbit of the International Space Station.

EverQuest averages about 250,000 new subscribers every year. Currently, there are more than 420,000 people playing the game.

 

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