Perks – MMO Fallout

Jagex Details Premier Club 2019

It is November and that means time for a new annual premier club sale. RuneScape’s premier club generally goes on sale from mid-late November and stays available until early February.

Perks for this year’s premier club include:

1 additional Treasure Hunter key per day
150,000 bonus loyalty points
3 premier club reward tokens (issued throughout the year)
Premier artefact
Premier club vault
Valkyrie outfit
VIP world/forum access & exclusive Q&A
Forum/Chat badge
Monthly prize draw

Premier club can be purchased with five bonds (Bronze, 3 month), 10 bonds (Silver, 6 months), or 20 bonds (Gold, 12 months) or for $27.99, $49.99, and $89.99 respectively. Please note that most of the rewards listed above are exclusive to gold tier subscribers. Click here for more information on rewards for each tier. Mobile subscribers are not able to sign up for premier club.

Vanguard Opens Up More Features For Free

What are you thinking about, Vanguard? Why so distant all the time? Reaction to Vanguard’s free to play transition last summer has been rather positive, but at the same time pretty lukewarm, with players noting the very restrictive free to play model that SOE had implemented as the primary reason behind the negativity. Before Vanguard even went free to play, Sony Online Entertainment was already doing patchwork on opening the game up more to free players, and since then the team has been working on fixing bugs, working on content changes, and planning for future updates.

In a post today, Producer Henry Burgess has revealed that both free players and members will receive a boost in Vanguard:

We have decided to expand and improve on the free- to-play offering for Vanguard. That means everyone can play any race, any class, to any level for free. You can also own a house, create guilds, and do a bunch of other things.

Free players will have full access to all of the game’s races and classes, as well as enjoying an unlimited gold purse and the game’s 50 active-quest limit. Free players will be able to have four bag slots, normal broker fees, 75 bank slots (compared to 25), as well as full access to caravans, brotherhoods, the ability to create a guild, and the ability to own a house. Members will enjoy a boost of 50% bonus experience, 12 character slots, double faction gains, a 10% discount at the marketplace, 20% discounted broker fees, two houses (20% discount on upkeep), 20% discounted mail fees, and a 20% discount on most other fees in-game. All of this with the other features members are already accustomed to (500 Station cash, customer support, etc).

(Source: Vanguard)

Age of Wushu Yanks Certain Preorder Bonuses

Updated Story: Snail Games has decided to give everyone who bought the Elite package the permanent horse.

d. The permanent mount. There was quite a bit of miscommunication regarding this from both sides. When we were working on the package for the Elite players we honestly did not see it as an issue. There was no ulterior motive to the choice. We wanted to get a package to you guys as soon as we could. This as it happens, was a large oversight on our part. As such, we will be giving all ELITE package members the permanent mount that we promised. In fact, it should be sent to all ELITE package accounts by the time you read this 12.24.2012. Please accept our apologies in this matter. Our players are very important to us and we want to do our best to foster a good relationship.

Original Story:This is an excellent lesson for budding MMO developers, or really businesses as a whole. If you’re going to offer something as an incentive for people to purchase, it isn’t in your best interest to retroactively remove some of those perks. Not in the sense of PR or sales and, depending on your clientele, could wind up with you sitting in court. In a post on the Age of Wushu forums, Pyre announced that the terms of the “Elite” package for Age of Wushu are being altered, and that you should pray they are not altered further.

Elite members will be receiving 85 additional gold as well as 30 extra days of VIP, 2 temporary 14-day horses and an extra 20 gold as an apology. An apology for what, you might ask?

after long deliberation it was decided that a permanent horse was too powerful an item

Although Snail Games replaced the permanent horse and 90 days head start with other perks (listed above), a number of players are angry over the simple idea that the company retracted the perks after they had already started selling the packages including those bonuses.

(Source: Age of Wushu)