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SOE President John Smedley skipped SOE’s traditional communication streams and took to Reddit tonight to participate in one of their popular Ask Me Anything livechats to answer candid questions about today’s announcements about All Access, the sunsetting of four SOE games, and more. When asked what we can expect from SOE this year, we got: Everquest Next Landmark will launch…. we have expansions for EQ and EQ2 and an unannounced MMO that we’re working on. Wait… what? A new MMO? completely new IP. The data is on the interwebs.. someone just has to find it. SWG PLAYERS – OUR...
Day: January 24, 2014
The Sony Online Entertainment belt-tightening continues, with the announced shuttering of the following games: FreeRealms – March 31, 2014 Clone Wars Adventures – March 31, 2014 Wizardry Online – July 31, 2014 Vanguard – July 31, 2014 As Clone Wars and Wizardry Online were the intellectual property of other companies, LucasArts (since purchased by Disney) and Gamepot respectively, so there may have been some contractual reason for these games to end. Also, the Clone Wars show went off the air this year. Vanguard has a long troubled history that included substance abuse, parking lot firings, and copious drama which...
As we found out recently, SOE is making all of their customers who currently have a Gold membership, through credit card, Krono, or game cards, into All Access customers. Players will be able to login to their favorite game once per month and claim 500SC for being loyal subscribers, as well as enjoying a 10% flat discount in all Marketplace prices. Finally, All Access customers will be able to access all of SOE’s games including DC Universe Online (PC), PlanetSide 2 (PC), EverQuest, EverQuest II, Dragon’s Prophet, EQN Landmark, and EQNext when it launches in 2015. NOTE: The upcoming changes...