Email SoE Sent to EQ Gold Subs on Jan 3rd, 2014Follow

Yep and sadly, No more saving for a few months to buy the 32 and 36 slot Rucksacks etc. So as it now stands, an account would have to pay for the SC to buy one 32 slot bag which is more than a months subscription for gold status. Meanwhile the drop rate on them is very low it seems.

I hope they adjust some higher priced items (ie the Rucksacks) and services below 2000 SC to at least make them available in this new system with the new changes to gold account bonuses.


Edited, Jan 5th 2014 12:03pm by hexeez

Apparently they're sorta kinda not going to do it -- note #3 (apologies for formatting on my phone) from the forums thread:

Hi everyone,
Thanks for the feedback. We listened.
Here are the basics of our revised plan. Please note - we have not had the time to do estimates of the work involved, and also we're continuing to listen. so this isn't baked just yet. Do not expect that this is all going to happen immediately. We plain don't know yet. we're doing that meeting tmw.
1) We're lowering the price of All Access to $14.99 2) We're going to make it so every subscriber to all our PC games an all access member. Basically there will be one SOE membership for our PC games. Please note there are some minor restrictions around our kids titles (simply put - if you're a 12 year old who signed up for FR you won't have access to the adult games so we'll likely leave the lower priced kids offerings as separate subscriptions for under 12 for the same low prices). 3) We're keeping the 500 SC included with the subscription instead of going to the "pick an item" system. We heard you. You didn't like the change. The only change we are making is that we're now going to make you claim it monthly. You can still hoard it though :) I realize this is a bit of a pain but honestly it's the best compromise we could come up with that solves the problems I mentioned in the other thread. 4) we are going to be giving our members a 10% discount in our marketplaces. 5) European players - we have an idea on how to include you in this but we need to discuss with our partners.We have a pretty good idea on this though. give us a bit of time to suss this out. 6) Nothing is changing with Player Studio items - you'll still be able to buy them with your 500SC. 7) Console titles - you'll notice I only mentioned the PC titles. Our goal is to include the PS3 and PS4 games that we have, but I want to be up front and say that isn't a done deal.
In a nutshell that's where our head is at.
As always your feedback is welcomed. Please do us a big favor and carefully think about #3. Our goal is to give you more value in the subscription to make it more attractive and making it simpler in the process.
I really feel like we're making a good decision going this route. It makes things simpler and gives more value to our players.

Thanks
Smed

I read the change (good on them for listening) as "your 500 SC perk will now be an item you have to login to marketplace and purchase for zero SC, otherwise it will expire until the next month rather than just being autogranted to every sleepy account"

An unnecessary change in my view, since the "sleepy accounts" are paying to be sleepy as it were. Would be another matter if the free accounts were involved.

There's precedent of other marketplace items with zero cost (an xp potion iirc) that you can claim once (per character or account I am not sure --would be nice to see that go once a month available...).