Editing EverQuest (section)

===OS X===
SOE devoted one server (Al'Kabor) to an OS X version of the game, which opened for beta testing in early 2003, and officially released on June 24 of the same year. The game was never developed beyond the ''Planes of Power'' expansion, and contained multiple features and bugs not seen on PC servers, as a side-effect of the codebase having been split from an early ''Planes of Power'' date but not updated with the PC codebase. In January 2012, SOE announced plans to shut down the server, but based on the passionate response of the player base, rescinded the decision and changed Al'Kabor to a free-to-play subscription model.<ref>[http://forums.station.sony.com/eq/posts/list.m?topic_id=183277 EQMac will carry on!]{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}, SOE forums</ref> At about the same time, SOE revised the Macintosh client software to run natively on Intel processors. Players running on older, [[PowerPC]]-based systems lost access to the game at that point.<ref>[http://forums.station.sony.com/eq/posts/list.m?topic_id=186138 EQMac Login News]{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}, SOE forums</ref>  SOE closed Al'Kabor server in November 2013.<ref>EQ Mac Sunsetting: A Letter from John Smedley [https://forums.station.sony.com/eq/index.php?threads/eq-mac-sunsetting-a-letter-from-john-smedley.204507/ SOE official forum, October 18, 2013] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110045933/https://forums.station.sony.com/eq/index.php?threads%2Feq-mac-sunsetting-a-letter-from-john-smedley.204507%2F |date=November 10, 2013}}</ref>