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General: SOE All-Access Goes Live
SBFord
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Sony Online Entertainment's Mark Tuttle has taken to the corporate site to explain why he believes that the SOE All-Access plan is a great deal. SOE users will be happy to hear that the All-Access plan is now live for $14.99. Tuttle goes into detail about what exactly that subscription will include.
So what does this all mean? First, it means your membership dollar goes a lot farther. For $14.99 per month (or less if you purchase multiple months at a time), players can now have top tier access to all participating SOE games. This means if you want to take a break from sneaking around Auraxis in your Stalker Cloak and test your mettle against the dragon, Nagafan, or The Joker in DCUO, you can do so with all member benefits. And since your Station Cash wallet is good in all SOE games, you can drop some coin on a snazzy new outfit in EQII to announce, “Yes, I have arrived!” To continue the awesome, as a member players get 10% off the Marketplace price of that item! Go ahead, splurge for the spikey hat and the bunny mount!
One thing we want to point out is the change to the way members redeem the 500 SC membership reward each month. It will no longer be automatically delivered to players’ wallets. Instead, you will need to click the claim button in any of the participating in-game Marketplaces. This has been added to the main marketplace screen, so it’s easy to find. You’ll also know when you’re eligible to claim your next reward the same way!
Read the full letter on the Sony Online Entertainment site.
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Still free.
Just people who want to sub monthly get more for their $15 instead of having to sub $15 for each game they play that SOE offers.
There are 3 types of people in the world.
1.) Those who make things happen
2.) Those who watch things happen
3.) And those who wonder "What the %#*& just happened?!"
The 500 SC and 10% off are just bonuses from subbing. The real benefits are the game play ones.
Too bad SOE has spent the last decade doing little more than buying up failed MMO's and migrating them over to a F2P model. This is great news for anyone who is already subscribed to one of their games, but it won't do much at all for anyone else. People can already download and play those games for free long enough to realize they aren't worth the sub in the first place.
I still think this whole thing is an effort to ween current subscribers off of the automatic SC bonuses, by changing the way it's handed out. The last thing they want is a bunch of people with years of unspent SC loading up EQN for free.
You make me like charity
its like rent 7 cash shops for 14,99 ,no ty.
give access to 7 games without cash shops ,ty.
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They've mentioned they'll be adding Landmark, EQN and H1Z1 as they launch.
I think the website for "all access" might be having issues. Unable to actually sign up for it.
Games Included:
EverQuest
EverQuest II
Planetside 2
DCUO
*Coming Soon*
Dragon's Prophet
Landmark
H1Z1
Not a huge selection that makes think, "Great deal!"
- Al
Personally the only modern MMORPG trend that annoys me is the idea that MMOs need to be designed in a way to attract people who don't actually like MMOs. Which to me makes about as much sense as someone trying to figure out a way to get vegetarians to eat at their steakhouse.- FARGIN_WAR
laugh
I think a lot of people would need to be paid before they would play any of SoE's titles.
There is no mmo without cashshop anymore. Atleast no one I can think of.
I think it's just a matter of Smedly trying to refocus the company a bit, and get away from having a scattershot of different mediocre games. At a Reddit AMA a few months ago, in response to a question about how long Planetside 2 will be supported, his response was :
"hopefully 20 years. We're consolidating our franchises so we can support the titles we want to be there for the long haul. that's why we did this."
You make me like charity
well I will pick this up once EQ:N, Landmark and H1Z1 are live as it will be an amazing deal then..
At the moment I only play Planetside 2 out of the games they have included.. I guess i could pick up EQ2 again tho as it was a pretty decent game..
All Access goes Live - All Planetside 2 servers goes down for over 24 hours now.
Great change.
Shame it doesn't apply to Planetside 2 really, if it did i would probably get the all access thing, but since SOE farmed it off to Prosieben, its not really a viable option. i am guessing that this SOE all access plan only applies to people in NA, and not to European players.
Haven't tried for other games and the all access thingy, but I can confirm you can play DCUO via your SOE account, the Pro7 stuff kept me off the game, but my old Vanguard account brought me in. Someone even complained in DCUO he couldn't spend his SevenCash. XD
But if we are able to use the all access in Europe... We will see. I wanted to try EQ or EQ2 anyway. Feeling oldschool right now.