Feldon From EverQuest2.com:
Come Back to EverQuest II Free For This Weekend!
This weekend, players who have quit the game between November 5, 2010 and August 2, 2011 can come back for free! It’s a great time to come back, too. It’s Bonus Experience Weekend and Back to School Bonanza for double Station Cash! If your friends haven’t heard about it yet, don’t forget to tell them! The free play time starts this evening and ends Monday evening. All players will need to do is patch their game client and log into the game!
Returning players will also get to enjoy the following awesome rewards:
- Vulrich Mount to keep FOREVER! (Note: Cannot leap until level 30)
- Includes all content up to Sentinel’s Fate
- A complimentary XP potion to level even faster
- Up to 3,000 in Station Cash bonuses! Earn 500 SC when you resubscribe for one month, earn 1,000 when you choose a multi-month subscription, earn 1,000 SC when you buy the Destiny of Velious Expansion Pack, and earn 2,000 SC when you buy the Destiny of Velious: Digital Collector’s Edition
We’ve added a link and screenshot of the mount:
\aITEM 1213831204 -1324233558:[Leaping Vulrich]\/a
Keeps telling me i need a subscription to benefit from those 3 free days.
SOE at it s best.
I’m getting really tired of missing out on exclusive mounts, SC, and other “winback” promos because I made the mistake of being subscribed to the game at some point since August 2nd.
Cancelled my account a week after august 2nd so im missing out.
I even considered going back after gu61 was somewhat cleaned up.
gg soe …
lol my account got reactivated just now…
strange it wasnt activated couple hours earlier.
yea they failed as normal. They think they have it going but I’ve still know people that still can’t get in that got the email.
ppl tried going back? i got the email and came here first, found exactly what i expected and deleted the email
Seriously?! People COMING BACK get a free mount and SC, but the people that were here the whole time get NOTHING?!
You get dbl exp and sc. Every service offers people free things to get people to come back to them, it is nothing new. But normally when you tell them they can come back you actually have it setup so they can.
I’m consistently amazed that it seems to be an outright injustice if one is excluded from getting stuff for free, or generally, getting less than someone else for some reason…
Rather than jumping up and down over how unfair it is how about doing /claim and checking if you got the mount…
Everyone I know has it there
Lexden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb-Nacm-pKc&feature=related
They would get LOTS of folks back if only they would FREAKING ADVERTISE!
Here is the kicker lol … IF you used the 45 free days, you do NOT get these free 3 days … nearly everyone who would use this free 3 dyas, used the free 45 days too, so this promo, like most every other promo SOE does, is useless and will change nothing in terms of subscriptions. Who runs the PR Dept at SOE… Seriously….
@Aethn Actually, that’s incorrect. I was just able to log in with an account active for the 45 free days. It’s just that if you used those 45 free days later, and the sub finally ran out sometime in august, you won’t get to do this free weekend.
The fact that the account wasn’t active at all for all of friday and most of saturday, however, was something that was hitting most accounts, not just people who used the 45 free days.
@Aethn this is false. my second account used the 45 days, ran out, now I have the free weekend up too. Boyfriend’s account was the same way too
@Aethn I came back with the free 45 days and I have received the free 3 days with the mount. It wasn’t instant, but I did eventually get access yesterday.
What is the significance of November 5, 2010? Wouldn’t Jan 1, 2005 open up a bigger number of people to the opportunity?
Did something happen on November 4, 2010 that I missed?
My second account was not activated until Sunday morning, but that’s not the kicker.
I went in to resubscribe this account, but SOE came up with an error saying my card company would not allow this transaction. Really? The same card that pays for the other account?
So I called my bank and had them double check, just to be sure. Nope, card is fine, nothing wrong on their end. So I went back to resub and still nope.
I guess SOE is making so much money, they don’t need mine.
@Green Armadillo – I feel the same way. I actually (bashfully) admit being subscribed that whole time but haven’t actually logged in. I keep reading the disaster report here on the wire and it pushes my “eventual return” farther away.
This ‘winback’ campaign is no different from any other company advertising and offering perks to new/returning customers that existing ones do not get.
TV companies, for example, offer promotional pricing for new customers that existing ones don’t get. What the existing customers always fail to recognize is the perks they got when they signed up, and, for EQ2 players, you are getting time counted towards vet rewards that a new customer won’t see for a long time.
Finally, all this over a mount that you can complete a quest for quickly, and some potions and some SC? Really? When did the EQ2 playerbase become so unsufferable?
I still didn’t get my free Vulrich mount! =(
Well 2 of my accounts used the 45 days and ran out long before august, and i cant log them in, nor can my roomate or half my guildmates. So I am at teh very least half right, there are also posts about this very same thing on EQ2 forums
Me and my wife used the 45 free days (some of it at least) we got the three extra days, logged in, got our Vulrich, logged out. Maybe we where lucky. I think a more interesting topic actually is: Why should anybody want to come back to a game that seems to totally have lost its way?
We where and are hoping for Mercenaries and the LFG tool to maybe bring some reasons to resub to a game that we once loved, but it seems less and less likely. Intentionally or unintentionally they have totally lost all the casual people we knew that played EQ2.