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SOE Maintenance - May 19, 2011 [General News]
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At 7am PDT on Thursday, May 19 all SOE login servers, forum account access and more will be unavailable during a 2 hour maintenance. Here is the official announcement: Beginning at 7 AM PDT on Thursday May 19, 2011, the Login Server, SOE Account and Commerce flow and the Station Store will be unavailable due to maintenance. We expect this maintenance to take approximately 2 hours. This may also cause some forum accounts to temporarily lose permissions, due to the inability to verify account status while the maintenance is taking place. This is only temporary and normal permissions will return automatically once the maintenance is complete. We apologize for this interruption and will resume all affected services as soon as the maintenance is completed. Source: EQ Players Amnerys on the EQII Forums later included a warning about zoning: Update: If you zone during this maintenance, you could lose connection and not be able to log back in.
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Triple Station Cash Event [General News]
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According to a banner on Sony Online Entertainment's website , SOE is planning a triple Station Cash event! SOE's Memorial Mania Player Appreciation Event will run from 12:01 Pacific May 27, 2011 through 11:59pm Pacific May 30, 2011. During that time redeem any SOE Pre-Paid Game Card and receive triple Station Cash! Watch this spot for more deails as they become available!
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Fan Faire Registration has Re-Opened! [General News]
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Registration for Sony Online Entertainment's 2011 Fan Faire has finally re-opened! The Fan Faire will run from July 7th - 9th at Bally's Las Vegas. Events include developer panels, tournaments, live quests and much more. This year registrants have the choice between a Friday only, Saturday only or an All-Access pass for the entire weekend. The All-Access pass includes digital copies of EverQuest and EverQuest II's next expansion pack, special in-game items and access to special evening events at Fan Faire. All three types of passes include access to the showroom and developer panels, gift bags and daytime events. Register for the All-Access pass by May 31st and get the Early Bird Special pricing of $119 USD! Head over to the official SOE Fan Faire website for more information on pricing and a preliminary schedule of events .
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May Madness Marketplace Sale [EverQuest II]
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The delayed May Madness Marketplace Sale started yesterday evening and several items in the Station Cash Marketplace have had their prices reduced. The sale is advertised to run through May 25th. Discounted items were announced on EQ2 Players: Additional Character Slot -- Regular Price: 1000 -- Sale Price: 700 Potion of Disgenderment -- Regular Price: 750 -- Sale Price: 500 Guild Rename Potion -- Regular Price: 2450 -- Sale Price: 1750 Race Potion -- Regular Price: 1450 -- Sale Price: 1000 Potion of Amnesia -- Regular Price: 950 -- Sale Price: 700 Character Transfer Token -- Regular Price: 2450 -- Sale Price: 1750 Character Copy Token -- Regular Price: 2450 -- Sale Price: 1750 Norrathian Witness Protection Pack -- Regular Price: 1750 -- Sale Price: 1000 Charm of Escape -- Regular Price: 50 -- Sale Price: 25 Potion of Quickened -- Regular Price: 50 -- Sale Price: 25 Summoning Charm -- Regular Price: 75 -- Sale Price: 50 Scroll of Tracking -- Regular Price: 50 -- Sale ...
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SOE Outlines'Make Good'Program [General News]
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Sony Online Entertainment's games have been offline for almost two weeks following a recent attack by hackers , and we're all anxiously awaiting any news regarding the status of the company's services. While it doesn't give an estimated date for when the games will be live, SOE's latest update outlines its"Make Good"program and unveils its complimentary Debix“AllClear ID PLUS” identity theft protection program in the United States. As previously announced, all impacted players will receive 30 days of game time added to the end of the current billing cycle in addition to one day for each day the system is down. Players will also receive the following items once services resume: DC Universe Online: Batman and Two-Face Inspired Masks and 30 Marks of Distinction Free Realms: Free daily items (7 to collect) Clone Wars Adventures: Count Dooku v2 Outfit EverQuest: A series of events, including Double XP, Double Rare Mob Spawns and Double Faction Gains ...
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SOE Welcome Back Program [General News]
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UPDATE 8:08p.m. EDT : @j_smedley : Our games are live again! You must first change your password before you'll be able to login to your game! Sony Online Entertainment announced around 4:15pm PDT today that it is beginning"phased restoration"of its game services. Also announced is a Welcome Back Program which will compensate every Station Account in good standing with 45 days of game time as long as the account is logged into by 11:59pm PDT on August 31, 2011. In addition to game time, here are some highlights of other special items and events being offered: Station Access Subscribers: 500 Station Cash (account must be in good standing) Lifetime Subscribers: Select amounts of in-game currency (CWA, DCUO and Free Realms only) EverQuest: Double XP, Double Rare Mob Spawns, Double Faction Gains (May 14 - May 22) EverQuest II: Double XP, Double Guild XP, Loot Bonanza, City Festivals and Moonlight Enchantments, Original Aether Races (May 14 - May 22) Free Realms: Free Daily ...
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SOE Login Server Issues [General News]
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UPDATE: Players have now been able to login through Launchpad 1 (original game launchers) and the Streaming Launcher (EQ2/EQ2X). Station Launcher was lagging behind the other clients but is now allowing players to login. EverQuest Online Adventures is still not up at this time. From an announcement on their forums: Unfortunately, EverQuest Online Adventures will not be coming online just yet. We are working on returning the service as quickly as possible. Station Account subscription time will be extended accordingly. Sony Online Entertainment's login servers are throwing off a wide variety of errors today to those attempting to login. Amongst the errors players have seen: This account is for an underage user. You are not old enough to access the game. The server has encountered an internal error that prevented it from fulfilling the request. Error: The operation has timed out. Login attempt has failed: Unknown error. These issues are currently being looked i ...
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Spotlight: May Events [EverQuest II]
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May has been a tumultuous month for EverQuest II with the extensive downtime that all SOE games have experienced. The game came back online the evening of May 14th and all players are being treated to a week-long run of events. Double experience is active for adventuring, alternate advancement, crafting and guild XP. The server will be rewarding a 100% bonus to experience throughout the week. A"loot bonanza"is also in effect, which is a greater chance of high quality loot to drop from past and present hot zones as well as group and overland zones in Velious. Both bonuses are in effect until 9am PDT on Monday, May 23. The Freeport City Festival had kicked off on May 1st, but the downtime intruded upon it, leaving its status unknown. In compensation all city festivals are now active until 9am PDT on May 23. Visit Chris Weathers at any festival venue to browse wares for all cities which include a total of 16 new local specialties . Norrath's moons are experiencing an unusual alig ...
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The City Festival is Live! [EverQuest II]
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The Far Seas Caravan traveled the waters of Norrath to reach their destination, arriving early this morning in The Commonlands to begin the Freeport City Festival ! The festival started on May 1st at 12:01am PDT and will run until May 7th at 11:59pm PDT. You can find the Far Seas Caravan between the Crossroads and the Freeport Griffon Tower. This month you can pick up three new Freeport themed house items: Black Marble Pedestal Table , Freeport Candleholder and Freeport Short Lantern . Visit the Far Seas caravan merchants to see all of the local specialities and other festival goods. The Far Sea Trading Company has caught wind of the popularity of the recent Aether Races and have arranged for each city festival to have one of its own! The newest one will kick off this month in The Commonlands and be available throughout the event. Begin the race by speaking to the referee near the docks. Watch a video of the new race after the hop!
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SOE Downtime - May 2, 2011 [General News]
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All Sony Online Entertainment services, games, forums and web sites are currently offline. This downtime relates to the recent Playstation Network intrusion. No ETA is available at this time. Here is the notice from Station.com : Dear valued SOE Customers, We have had to take the SOE service down temporarily. In the course of our investigation into the intrusion into our systems we have discovered an issue that warrants enough concern for us to take the service down effective immediately. We will provide an update later today (Monday). During the downtime you are welcome to join us in ZAM's IRC chat . Feldon of EQ2Wire also has set up a ZAM IRC java applet that you can use. UPDATE : A press release was posted on SOE's web site around 3:40pm PDT.
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