Comments on: Living Legacy – Rant

By: Openedge1

Openedge1 — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:37:55 +0000

I left. Hung up my EQ2 cape, and called it a day.

I was truly disappointed to see this…

I had paid 40 bucks for the RoK expansion, after paying 40 for EoF…and was not that pleased
I had a guild that was leaving in droves for AoC and other games..
I was waiting to see if AoC was my cup of tea…

Then SOE does this…

I enjoy AoC VERY much….

By: Dalven

Dalven — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:44:54 +0000

As I recently returning player who started a week or two before this special deal I got to say I feel robbed. Not only did I play to restart my account but I also dropped the 30-40 bucks for the expansion. Sony got some splainin to do.

Dalven

By: SOE Living Legacy Promotion Striking the Right Chord? « Clockwork Gamer

SOE Living Legacy Promotion Striking the Right Chord? « Clockwork Gamer — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:39:30 +0000

[...] SOE Living Legacy Promotion Striking the Right Chord? June 4, 2008 Posted by Kendricke in Everquest 2. Tags: John Smedley, Living Legacy, Veterans trackback It doesn’t take very long to find a few choice words regarding SOE’s new “Living Legacy” promotion from existing customers: “But wait a second, what about those loyal customers, who never left. Or what about those people who subscribed last month, or the month before, still ‘recently’ returning.” – Stargace, MMO Quests [...]

By: Akely

Akely — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:38:11 +0000

I felt something similar a while back. A friend who quit EQ2 years ago came back with Rise of Kunark. He got all the veteran awards I had veteran cases and all, even though he had his account active for under a year. Seems SOE counts the time from when you activated your account and not the number of active days.

I know it is extremely petty of me and that it is wrong, but I begrudged him that.

This whole thing is just business, after all. SOE already has me and they know I will not quit by giving someone else perks. Hey, maybe I should quit and resign? Nah, to lazy.

By: Krozath

Krozath — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:11:17 +0000

It’s not just active accounts getting the shaft. I turned off all access close to 2 months ago, And went with EQ2 only. So when I heard about this promotion, Thought I’d give EQ1 a try. Seems I don’t qualify because my account has not been in-active long enough. or at least thats what customer service told me on the phone Oh well

By: Kasul

Kasul — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:02:14 +0000

You know, I always thought of it the other way around… so many mobs are social in EQ and some zones are so packed that you really need a group to advance, or access to twink gear. It always felt like you could be much more casual in a game that had a well defined quest system and solo-designed encounters, with variable difficulty within /con ranges. Maybe it’s just me.

EQ felt very quiet when I came back a while ago, but that may have been because I didn’t have access to new content. I think anything they can do to bring back casual players can only benefit the game, but it is a shame the incentives don’t translate to active accounts.

By: Mythokia

Mythokia — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:50:31 +0000

An alternative could be that existing customers pay a lesser amount for an expansion, say $19.90 instead of $49.90, sort of like how the license for software upgrades work. But then again I suppose this would mean extra trouble for them in the physical retail channels since they would have to maintain two different SKUs.

By: Urtog

Urtog — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:44:41 +0000

1) Rake in as many new/old players as possible.

2) Suddenly release new expansion 2 free months later.

3) ???

4) PROFIT!

By: tipa

tipa — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:33:34 +0000

Well, that’s not fair. We paid for the fun we had until this point.

I do hope those current subscribers who do not have all the expansions, get them for free as well. Anything otherwise would be GROSSLY unfair.

By: Mythokia

Mythokia — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:06:52 +0000

I agree with you completely. It has always already bothered me that the new players has been able to buy a superset of the every expansion since the release of EoF for the same price that we had to pay for each individual expansion. And now they just pretty much get handed everything for free. Maybe I’m just a bitter and jealous person, or maybe it is partly due to the fact that in the last game I played, Lineage 2, expansions were released free, and it wasn’t low quality or anything, it was every bit on the same level as what you would expect if you paid for it.

I feel horribly sorry for those that just bought the game a day or a week before their announcement.

It almost seems like we have a loyalty tax to pay while the new subscribers get tax holidays. Whatever happened to the concept of frequent flier miles?