Tag: Sale

Marvel Heroes Refunds Pre-Sale Buyers


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Marvel Heroes has kicked off the Star Spangled Sale, beginning today (June 28th) and continuing all the way through to July 8th. For the duration of this sale, all heroes have had their prices discounted, as well as costumes, retcon devices, and more. Naturally there are those who are putting their arms up in frustration, having made a purchase from the store just a few days ago, unaware of the incoming price drop. To aid those players, Gazillion has put a note in the sale announcement that anyone who has purchased a hero or costume since June 25th will be able to submit a ticket and be refunded the difference in price. According to the announcement, the costume refund will only be eligible if the difference is more than 400Gs.

To claim your refund, you must contact Customer Support, who will verify your in-game purchase and then refund your account. To contact Customer Support, login to your profile on Marvel Heroes.com and click ‘Support’ and ‘Submit a Help Request’. Then use the dropdown menu to select ‘Holiday Sale Issues’ and send in your request. Please note, due to the high volume of expected refund requests, your refund may take up to a week to process. Refunds can only be granted for items that were purchased from the in-game store; heroes and costumes included as part of a pack are not eligible for refund.

Gazillion’s policy is similar to that found in department stores, and through Steam if you can get to customer service.

(Source: Marvel Heroes)

The Secret World 50% Off On Origin


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Good news, gamers. You can now pick up The Secret World through EA’s Origin store for 50% off, or $14.99 USD. The purchase gives access to the full Secret World experience minus the DLC expansions and the items available in the cash shop. Otherwise, The Secret World is completely subscription free (ignore the outdated notice at the bottom of the origin page). The offer does not include all countries, so if you see the game at its standard price, you probably aren’t included in it.

You do not need to download Origin in order to play The Secret World. Simply log in or create a Funcom account and apply your key, then download the client from the Secret World website.

(Source: Origin)

Grab TERA For $10 On Amazon (50% Off)


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TERA goes free to play on February 5th, and you can still pick up a copy of the game on Amazon for $10. Why buy a copy of a game that will be free to play by this time tomorrow? If you haven’t been paying attention (and if you have to ask, you haven’t), TERA’s free to play model segregates players into free, subscriber, and founder. Founder status players are those who have a serial code attached to their account, through purchasing a boxed or digital copy of the game. As I pointed out, founder status players have a number of advantages granted to them that a new account will never have access to, even if they subscribe, including a monumentally increased bank storage.

Now here’s the catch: Starting February 5th (tomorrow), En Masse Entertainment will be discontinuing the sale of digital copies of TERA, making founder’s status impossible to obtain unless you happen to come across one of the remaining out-of-print box copies. So if you’re going to be playing TERA, you live in the United States (important), and don’t mind dropping $10, having founder status is ultimately a better deal than running with a standard free account.

And founder status is just an alternative to the free account. You don’t pay a subscription to keep it.

(Source: Amazon)

gPotato Sold To Webzen


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Things haven’t been all sunshine and lollipops for Gala Net. In fact, the company has been operating at a notable, and growing, loss for the past four quarters straight. In the most recently released quarterly report, Gala announced an operating profit in the red at -167,145 (thousand JPY). On the heels of this news, MMO Culture has learned that Gala Net’s operations in North American and Europe, as well as Brazil, will be sold off to Webzen. The deal was struck just a few hours ago, and the transaction will take place on February 15th, 2013.

Webzen appears to have picked up Gala Net on the cheap, to boot. According to Reuters, Gala Net was sold for $17.5 million. Gala Net is best known for its publishing of Allods Online, Uncharted Waters, Continent of the Ninth, and more. Webzen has been covered here at MMO Fallout over their publishing of Archlord after Codemasters dropped the title back in 2009. We will have to sit back and see how the two services change as a result of this acquisition, although all likelihood points to gPotato’s games being assimilated into Webzen’s library.

(Source: MMO Culture)

NCSoft Tried Selling City Of Heroes, No Buyers


It’s been over a month since NCSoft announced that City of Heroes would be shutting down, and since then the community has thrown virtually every theory out there as to why there hasn’t been any news from the talks with Paragon Studios.  The question that lays on everyone’s mind is: If NCSoft isn’t willing to keep the game running, why didn’t they try selling the studio/game? As it turns out, they did try. In an announcement on the City of Heroes website, NCSoft offers a small bit of detail on what went down.

We’ve exhausted all options including the selling of the studio and the rights to the City of Heroes intellectual property, but in the end, efforts to do so were not successful. City of Heroes has a special place in all of our hearts, and we want to ensure its reputation and the memories we share for the game end on a high note.

So there is some kind of reassurance that NCSoft at least made an attempt to save City of Heroes. It may not be the answer that they want to hear, but it is an answer nonetheless.

(Source: City of Heroes)

TERA: Buy 1 Get 1 Free, Amazon


What is better than one copy of TERA? Endless shrimp at Red Lobster is not a valid response. The answer is TWO copies of TERA for the price of one. Moving along from the shellfish, Amazon is currently running a deal on the digital version of TERA:

Until September 22nd, you can pick up TERA for $9.99 USD (an 80% discount). With it, you will receive a promotional credit for $9.99 which can only be redeemed on TERA. The credit is good until October 15th, but you will have to actually buy TERA before September 22nd. An unusual, and rather unnecessarily complicated method of delivering the key, but what can you do?

The moves comes on the forefront of TERA’s server merger in North America, bringing the number of servers from eleven to three. En Masse is also introducing a new protection on accounts: deleting characters now requires a seven day wait if that character is above level five. The cool down timer for joining guilds is also being increased to two weeks.

(Source: TERA Website

Get Some DLC On Steam For Cheap


Steam’s Summer Sale has yet to begin, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t get on with some DLC price drops early.

Update: Corrected the Dungeons and Dragons pack. It ends July 9th, not July 7th.

Rift: Flash Sale, 50% Off Both Digital Versions


Good news, potential Rifters! For the next 24 hours, you can get Rift standard and digital editions for 50% off. This sale ends soon, so if you’re going to buy, do it now. Amazon is also having this sale for the standard and digital collector’s editions.

Head over to http://www.direct2drive.com/promos/rift/ and you’ll also receive a package with a 10 slot bag, scrolls, potions, and more.

If you make use of the Ascend-a-Friend program, you can also obtain 7 free days, and an exclusive title. So if you’re planning on buying Rift, you can always buy the code before the sale expires tomorrow, then sign up with the above link, and use your code at the end of the seven days.

Redeem $15 Station Points, Get $10 Free


Who could say no to free money? I can, but then again, I’m not willing to buy five packages of cereal at three dollars apiece in order to save two dollars with the coupon that printed out for me at Target. That’s just me, I won’t judge the people who change their whole diet on the grounds of what comes in the coupon booklet each month. That being said, I do enjoy a real deal when it comes my way.

If you subscribe to any Station games via credit card, the time card just got a little more appetizing. Purchase a fifteen dollar Station cash card, and redeem it by the 21st, you will receive ten dollars extra. On the other side, you can use the fifteen dollar card towards a subscription, so a player could extend their subscription and still receive the 1,000 station points.

Station Cash cards are not available in all areas and countries, and this does not apply to online purchases.

Darkfall Anniversary Sale: $9


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Darkfall is one of those games that comes around and defies all authority by, yes, having one of the worst launches in recent history (with the game being unbuyable for a good while post-launch), but taking those startup issues, beating them over the head with a brick, and throwing the dead bodies into a lake. That was two years ago, and Darkfall continues to defy the predictions of trolls by pushing out regular content updates, including an upcoming reshaping of the world.

In celebration of the game’s second anniversary, Aventurine is putting Darkfall on sale for $9 USD and Euro, until April 1st. In addition, the three month subscription is now on sale for $24.95 (Three for the price of one and two thirds). Topping off this sale is the addition of 25,000 meditation points for those who resubscribe in March or create new accounts. The points may be lost if you have too many saved up, so Aventurine is recommending that players use up some of their existing points:

Note: Don’t claim the points if you don’t have room for them, for example, if you already have more than 75 thousand points in your account. If you do, then you should work some off to make room for your free points. Meditation points are non-refundable.

More on Darkfall as it appears. This sale runs through to the end of the month.