''Landmark'' was a

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developed and published by

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(originally

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) for Microsoft Windows. The game's original name was ''EverQuest Next Landmark'', but was switched to ''Landmark'' in March 2014. The original purpose for ''EverQuest Next Landmark'' was mainly as a player content creation tool for ''

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''. ''Landmark'' was released in June 2016, and was playable until the servers were shut down in February 2017.

Development

The original purpose for ''EverQuest Next Landmark'' was mainly as a player content creation tool for ''

''. In April 2014, Dave Georgeson, director of development on the ''

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'' series, told

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in the interview that "Sony Online aybreakwon't ever be finished making ''Landmark''". On February 2, 2015,

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sold

to the investment company

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, who renamed it

. In June 2015, it was announced that

shifted its focus of development from ''Landmark'' to ''EverQuest Next'', meaning that "any features that are ''Landmark''-only are lower in priority and will have to wait until we have time to come back to them." On March 11, 2016,

president Russell Shanks announced that ''

'' had been cancelled. Also an announcement on official ''Landmark'' forums was made by an executive producer of ''

'' and ''

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'' that ''Landmark'' would be launching in 2016. On January 5, 2017, only seven months after its release, Daybreak announced they would be shutting down the game's servers, as well as the accompanying forums and social media channels, on February 21, 2017.

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* {{Daybreak Game Company 2016 video games Products and services discontinued in 2017 Massively multiplayer online role-playing games Video games scored by Jeremy Soule Video games developed in the United States Windows games Windows-only games Inactive massively multiplayer online games