EverQuest Online Adventures Shutting Down on March 29th

Given the fact that the game and its Frontiers expansion pack are exclusive to the PlayStation 2 (and have been for the entirety of their nearly decade-long existence), I’m actually a bit surprised that it took Sony Online Entertainment this long to announce that EverQuest Online Adventures will shut down on March 29th, 2012. Three of SOE’s lesser known games will share the same fate, too:

It’s Time to Bid a Fond Farewell

It is with a heavy heart that we announce today the imminent sunsetting of four of our long-standing game services on March 29, 2012, including Cosmic Rift®, Infantry®, Star Chamber: The Harbinger Saga and EverQuest® Online Adventures. Each of these games shares a special place in both ours and our players’ hearts. This is not an easy decision, but there comes a time when it’s best for our developers to move on to the next adventure, and that day has come.

As a reward to the players of EverQuest® Online Adventures, we will be giving you 3 months of Gold Membership in both EverQuest® and EverQuest® II. We greatly appreciate all of you and hope that you choose to join us in another version of the Norrath that we all love. These gold memberships will be available starting on Friday, March 16, 2012.

We would like to thank our players for their loyalty and for sharing the good times on these games. It’s been a blast. And we hope to keep gaming with all of you in our other great games here at SOE. Let’s keep pushing the boundaries of MMO gaming together!

Sincerely,
The SOE team

In any event, it’s been a fantastic run for one of the earliest console MMORPGs ever created.