advatange of 6 month or 12 month membershipFollow

I am considering a six month membership only because it is cheaper than paying every month and I fear if they close eq down all the money for a twelve month membership would go along with it.


My question is do I recieve more station cash or loyalty points for six or twelve month membership or are they the same.

Edited, Nov 5th 2013 2:03am by cjguy

I also think they would have to issue partial refunds for extended subs (6mo, 12mo) if Sony shut down EQ with such subs outstanding. They'd probably try to offer swap out deals for surviving Sony game subs, but this would have to be optional.

Otherwise even if they did not you could complain to your credit card company about not receiving the entirety of what you paid for and get a refund there.

I agree but all donkeys die eventually, right?

In truth I think there'd be legal consequences to NOT issuing refunds. While a company the size of Sony could ignore the legal threats of one irate customer I think some eager ambulance-chaser somewhere would see class action lawsuit potential in Sony burning thousands of subscribers as they fold their tents.

Actually I don't even see a chance of it happening. These companies can be cutthroat but I doubt they'd do something so blatantly offensive and in violation of credit card processing rules as well as probably laws against fraud.

So WHAT ME WORRY? Nah...

Considering Eqmac is just now about to shut down and they haven't had more than a handful of subscribers for several years. I figure with EQ as long as people continue to buy SC, pay subscriptions, and play they will keep the servers up. Before the game would shut down I figure you will see a message about no longer adding content to the game.

Eqmac went over a decade locked at POP. I think it shuts down Nov 18th?

Cant extrapolate from EQMac. Yeah they kept it going for years with minimal maintenance but they still had the other servers to generate income for overall maintenance. You can be sure that if they stopped issuing expansions and then stopped supporting the regular game it would NOT take as many years as EQMac survived before we'd see the end of EQ.

I doubt an emu server would be a big profit-maker much as I'd like to see one. The people who developed the emu servers "of which we don't speak here" <cough> <cough> invested huge amounts of uncompensated time to revive the old code and models to REALLY emulate the original 1999-2000 EQ experience. This is not close to what Sony does with its progression servers. Yeah, they're still fun and a nice "blast from the past" but it's not the original past by any means.

Ultimately we can kick this around all we want for fun but nobody knows when the end of EQ will come. But it's naïve to think EQNext isn't likely to hasten it. Somehow I just don't see an EQ1/EQ2 co-existence being extended to yet a third incarnation of the world of Norrath.

AMEN, BRUTHA!