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Gravy · 12-09-2011, 05:58 PM

Hozuki@Befallen wrote:

PLEASE SOE:
PLEASE SMOKEJUMPER:
PLEASE ISULITH:
This is GREAT news, you have taken LEAPS AND BOUNDS in the area of customer service and giving back to your FANS and SUPPORTERS!!! The good decisions and news just keep coming.. but in light of this recent development: PLEASE make this retro-active for us loyal ex-EQ2Live subscribers. It sucks so bad that because I was unable to play EQ2 for awhile (due to not having a computer) that I am somehow less of a vet than before. Its akin to saying that since I didn't pay for that month, I didn't exist to you. I was already "paying" for that decision by missing out on: the whole game since eq2 was F2P then, missing out on LIVE events that I will never get to experience again, and everything else that came with subscribing. But to make it so even though I pre-ordered the original EQ2 and have paid much over $1000 dollars in that time, I essentially didn't matter/exist for those months where I couldn't PAY could PLAY. Please do right by us, the veterans, those that have supported EQ2 from the beginning, thats what a vet is, it should be a reward for early adopters, not just those who never had the misfortune in 7 YEARS to be UNABLE to play. That's almost callous feeling to me.. The only reason I can see that this wasn't the case the entire time was to push the "passport" $5 3/day sub. which I was UNAWARE of during the time I was away, so I'm basically having those months of my account age taken away, never to be returned, talk about adding insult to injury. Now that there is no more "passport sub" this seems like the best way to extend an olive branch to those who WERE supporters of EQ2LIVE as opposed to the new F2P only model. Making veteran reward time "free AGAIN" was the right thing to do, but now all returning vets, and those who returned before, but missed some time, will be left with a sour taste in their mouths when they look at their account age, and see that for awhile they counted for nothing to EQ2. The world didn't stop when we weren't able to be apart of it, but somehow our existence did. That hurts, when I came back I immediately spent over $200 on subs, expansions, station store, only then did I notice that my account age in-game =/= the date I joined this world of Norrath. Such a blow to those that have put years into this game.
Please consider this, it wont HURT anybody, it can only HELP: the fans, the early adopters, it will give yet another reason for vets to return which can only help the player base and EQ2's pocketbooks. I've never thought of SOE as a "money-grabbing" company UNLIKE some of the OTHER competitors, and all these recent developments SUPPORT that vision. But I think you could take it 1/2 step further and do right by your early supporters. We are talking about some in-game items that don't give anyone a competitive advantage, they are just fun "thank you for supporting us" things. Only one reward a year, its not like there is a reward every month, that I could understand, heck I could even understand the OLD system of paying every month for vet time NOW that EQ2 is F2P, it makes much MORE sense than having that model when Everquest 2 was only playable if you actually had a subscription in the first place.
PLEASE SOE, Help us out, like we early adopters helped you out 7+ years ago.
Thank you,
Tracker Dunn
-Joined 12/12/2004
Vet time: 5 yrs 8 months 12 days...

I have no idea what you want.

Try again, but ask in one simple sentence.

12-09-2011, 05:58 PM	#29
Gravy Lord Join Date: Nov 2011 Posts: 382	Hozuki@Befallen wrote: PLEASE SOE: PLEASE SMOKEJUMPER: PLEASE ISULITH: This is GREAT news, you have taken LEAPS AND BOUNDS in the area of customer service and giving back to your FANS and SUPPORTERS!!! The good decisions and news just keep coming.. but in light of this recent development: PLEASE make this retro-active for us loyal ex-EQ2Live subscribers. It sucks so bad that because I was unable to play EQ2 for awhile (due to not having a computer) that I am somehow less of a vet than before. Its akin to saying that since I didn't pay for that month, I didn't exist to you. I was already "paying" for that decision by missing out on: the whole game since eq2 was F2P then, missing out on LIVE events that I will never get to experience again, and everything else that came with subscribing. But to make it so even though I pre-ordered the original EQ2 and have paid much over $1000 dollars in that time, I essentially didn't matter/exist for those months where I couldn't PAY could PLAY. Please do right by us, the veterans, those that have supported EQ2 from the beginning, thats what a vet is, it should be a reward for early adopters, not just those who never had the misfortune in 7 YEARS to be UNABLE to play. That's almost callous feeling to me.. The only reason I can see that this wasn't the case the entire time was to push the "passport" $5 3/day sub. which I was UNAWARE of during the time I was away, so I'm basically having those months of my account age taken away, never to be returned, talk about adding insult to injury. Now that there is no more "passport sub" this seems like the best way to extend an olive branch to those who WERE supporters of EQ2LIVE as opposed to the new F2P only model. Making veteran reward time "free AGAIN" was the right thing to do, but now all returning vets, and those who returned before, but missed some time, will be left with a sour taste in their mouths when they look at their account age, and see that for awhile they counted for nothing to EQ2. The world didn't stop when we weren't able to be apart of it, but somehow our existence did. That hurts, when I came back I immediately spent over $200 on subs, expansions, station store, only then did I notice that my account age in-game =/= the date I joined this world of Norrath. Such a blow to those that have put years into this game. Please consider this, it wont HURT anybody, it can only HELP: the fans, the early adopters, it will give yet another reason for vets to return which can only help the player base and EQ2's pocketbooks. I've never thought of SOE as a "money-grabbing" company UNLIKE some of the OTHER competitors, and all these recent developments SUPPORT that vision. But I think you could take it 1/2 step further and do right by your early supporters. We are talking about some in-game items that don't give anyone a competitive advantage, they are just fun "thank you for supporting us" things. Only one reward a year, its not like there is a reward every month, that I could understand, heck I could even understand the OLD system of paying every month for vet time NOW that EQ2 is F2P, it makes much MORE sense than having that model when Everquest 2 was only playable if you actually had a subscription in the first place. PLEASE SOE, Help us out, like we early adopters helped you out 7+ years ago. Thank you, Tracker Dunn -Joined 12/12/2004 Vet time: 5 yrs 8 months 12 days... I have no idea what you want. Try again, but ask in one simple sentence.