Heroes & Generals is celebrating Thanksgiving with a membership giveaway. All you have to do is log in each day between November 26th and November 29th to receive one free code every day for the duration of the event. Each code is good for twenty four hours of veteran membership, delivered via in-game mail and redeemed with the “redeem voucher” button. For players who subscribed between September 1st and November 10th, they will be receiving a full 30 day membership to compensate for server issues.
Good news, Telarans. Well, ex-Telarans. It’s been one year since Rift launched, and Trion wants to bring back all of its past subscribers, even those above level 20. Starting today, March 8th, and running until March 14th, anyone with a past subscription to Rift will find their accounts reactivated to join in the festivities. Take part in carnival games, enjoy the festivities, or just go back to your grind.
After the 14th, accounts without a subscription will revert back to Rift Lite, and any character that is above level 20 will be inaccessible without a subscription.
Mortal Online’s launch feels like forever ago, and player reaction is still mixed. Ask a current player and they’ll likely tell you that the game has improved leaps and bounds but still has a long way to go before it is stable, complete, and balanced. Ask an ex-player and you are likely to walk headlong into a Hitler analogy accompanying a rant about how much Star Vault hates making money and just wants to drive their customers away. Either way you look at it, Mortal Online had a rocky launch, not lethally rocky like All Points Bulletin, but heavier than your normal MMO launch. For months, de-synchronization was the biggest issue plaguing the game, among other smaller but numerous problems. Star Vault launched the Epic Patch, promising to fix many of these faults.
Star Vault wants to apologize to their customers, both current an prior, by giving seven free days. In the November Newsletter, Star Vault announced:
Of course actions speak louder than words, so in order to reimburse our customers for the grief the latest patches might have caused we are adding 7 days of additional gametime to each active account today. And in order to give customers who are not subscribed at the moment the chance to check out the new engine build and the new content, we are adding 7 days to every customer who bought any of the game versions earlier and does not have an active subscription at the moment.
In addition, the company is offering free days to those who resubscribe. Five days for one month, twenty days for three months, and fifty days for six months. If your account was inactive, you’ll be able to log into the account section on the Mortal Online website and see:
Your subscription has been cancelled,
but has not expired.
No further payments will or can be processed on your current registered payment method. Your subscription will expire on Fri, 26 Nov 2010. If you want to continue playing after that you need to reactive your subscription.
More on Mortal Online as it appears. Hit more for the entirety of the newsletter.
Final Fantasy XIV launched last month, and depending on who you ask the game has either been well received, moderately received, or has crashed so hard that only the hand of God himself can stop Square Enix from going bankrupt next month. If you ask me, however, Square Enix is just another company that generates serious cash by making early adopters out of people who have neither the patience, nor the foresight, to be making reasonable purchasing decisions.
If you purchase and register Final Fantasy XIV by October 25th, you’ll receive an extra 30 days, completely free! That’s two months of free game time, for the price of none…well, aside from the game.
For what it’s worth, Square Enix appears to be committed to fixing Final Fantasy XIV, and there is a hint of shame in how the game launched, in Square’s postings. This is less of an appeal to the whiners, and more of a “Hey, so the game didn’t launch that great. Have another month on us and we’ll see how it goes.” This isn’t the first time a developer has done this after launch, and one of those companies rhymes with Gizzard Blendtertainment.
Or maybe the trolls are right and this is Square Enix going into panic mode. Or, it might be picnic mode, the spelling was rather questionable.
In this troubled economy, we’ve all been facing some hard times. With unemployment in the United States over 10%, it is likely one in ten people coming to MMO Fallout have been laid off, or will be laid off. With the bills piling up and the income dropping to nothing, monthly video game subscriptions are likely to be the first things to fall.
Ragnarok Online recently launched Gravity Cares, that gives aid to those who have been recently unemployed. If you were a subscriber as of June 1st, and you were recently laid off after June 1st, you can submit a form to get three free months of membership to Ragnarok. You’ll have to send the form by snail mail, but the whole process shouldn’t take more than a couple weeks.
It’s not often a company comes along and does something generous like this. We’ve seen a few MMOs give discounts to military members, but this is the first jobless aid I’ve seen to date.
MMO Fallout 