Feldon 
From RadarX on the EQ2 Forums:
Finish up your holiday shopping and clear your calendar as this weekend starting Friday, December 20th at 12:00 PM PT you’ll get double experience from Adventure, Tradeskill, Alternate Achievement, and Guild Experience! This event will run through Sunday, December 22nd at 11:59 PT.
Also, to help everyone ring in the new year and finish out Frostfell, we will have a 50% Rebate Sale on many of our items on Tuesday, December 31st at 12:00 AM PT to Wednesday, January 1st, 11:59pm PT. You only have two days so don’t miss out on this great opportunity!
Double XP Time Zone Conversions
- PST: December 20 @ Noon ~ December 22 @ 11:59pm
- EST: December 20 @ 3:00pm ~ December 23 @ 2:59am
- GMT: December 20 @ 20:00 ~ December 23 @ 7:59
- CET: December 20 @ 21:00 ~ December 23 @ 8:59
- AEST: December 21 @ 5:00am~ December 23 @ 4:59pm
StationCash 50% Rebate Time Zone Conversions
UPDATE: As per the revised announcement, this is a TWO day event.
- PST: December 31 @ 12:00am ~ January 1 @ 11:59pm
- EST: December 31 @ 3:00am ~ January 2 @ 2:59am
- GMT: December 31 @ 8:00 ~ January 2 @ 7:59
- CET: December 31 @ 9:00 ~ January 2 @ 8:59
- AEST: December 31 @ 5:00pm ~ January 2 @ 4:59pm
A shame we don’t know what the 50% rebate is on.
My guess would be that the newest of items will not be included. (All of the frostfell items, home, mount, etc.)
The double xp will be nice to get my tailor up to 95. Maybe my ranger up to 95.
I think too many people resigned themselves to no more double/triple SC – so SOE decided that if people were already expecting to not have it, then they didn’t need to provide it.
@Feldon looks like your opinion piece from the 2nd of December looks much more solid now. I wonder how “quaim” is feeling now.
“when they offer sc in like 3 weeks…what are you gonna say?”
Well it has been 3 weeks: Feldon 1, Quaim 0.
Not sure if the Player Studio agreement with the content developers has a blanket clause for this (probably does) but with a rebate they can track discounted payments to any Player Studio items that they have to pay out. Also, they don’t have to give discounts to the currently hot selling items such as Frostfell stuff and server transfer tokens between AB & Crushbone ;-).
AND you have to have the full SC price at time of purchase. So if you’re short…(and I’m sure they hope you are), you’re going to be buying more SC at full price.
And I’m perfectly fine with all of that. If this is the way they need to do it to keep the game afloat, I am all for it. I’d much rather see them have complete control over what they sell and the discounts they give.
I wish they’d just come out and say “Ok folks, we’re doing at least a 1 year moratorium on Double StationCash deals”. Otherwise, everyone is just sitting around waiting.
my usual routine for SC is to buy wal-mart cards here and there when i have a little extra money and just redeeming them all when there is a decent bonus. i have been holding off on redeeming anything since the sub par july 4th deal. now i’m thinking that would have been the best time to redeem everything.
it would be really nice if they came out and talked about the direction they want to go for SC deals.
Actually Quaim posted a bunch of derogatory comments in response to this article, including calling me a liar. I won’t be subjecting EQ2Wire readers to his vileness.
why not just do it at 7am like all other downtimes. they got to put up the enchanted grottos why not do it at the same time. Feel like we are getting screwed out of a half day of double xp.
ok maybe not a half a day but about 5 hours lol
Just a minor thing:
The picture says 22nd-24th but it’s actually 20th-22nd as you have correctly written in the conversion.
Fixed the image. Thanks!
What a time for my computer to take a dump on me and be unable to play the game…. great.