sony is being awesome with make up days and extras , thank you sony BUT
How about a time frame when games will be back up ?

Sony for Everquest should give out Exp potions rather then Dbl exp weekends.
so people can use the Dbl exp when they can play rather then a set time sony gives.
some People work different times and days, even weekends.

"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."
"EverQuest®: A series of events, including Double XP, Double Rare Mob Spawns and Double Faction Gains"



Greydeeds Darkestnight 88 necromancer of Drinal

I thought I would leave some interesting information for everyone about how credit cards work. Credit card fraud is nearly impossible to get away with on a continuing basis, so people have turned to identity theft. For example, the only time I have run into credit card fraud is when someone used my mother's credit card for some plane tickets. She called the credit card company, reported the theft and tried to get them to send someone to catch the person who showed up at the airport.

We decided that the theft was from inside the credit card company, because the person working there said there was no way in the world to catch the person who committed the fraud and did not even want to try. This was just a guess, though. Either way, they immediately took the charge off the credit card. If anyone would care to look on the back of the cards, credit card companies are required by law to charge a consumer whose account is compromised no more than $50 (That figure is part of US law.). But no credit card company even does this anymore, to my knowledge. Credit card companies write off a certain percentage each year for credit card fraud, and they deal with the matter without bothering the consumer with it.

The card numbers that were compromised are going to be even more heavily scrutinized than normal, so anyone who would try to charge anything fraudulently on those cards is being very foolish. That is why thieves turned to identity theft in the first place, because credit card fraud is nearly impossible to accomplish without getting caught. The great thing about identity fraud in this case is that it takes social security numbers, and to my knowledge, Sony does not have any of our social security numbers. If you have not guessed, the million dollars of protection on each account is a public relations ploy, and it will probably be a very successful one.

There is very little risk to an account holder in some stranger having your credit card number in cyber space, and Sony knows this very well. The reason credit card companies do not advertise that they can only charge people $50 in instances of fraudulent use of a credit card is that they want to sell their credit protection service that costs a fortune and does nothing for the consumer. I actually confronted a woman who called from a credit card company about that once, and she told me that I was completely right that they never charged anyone for fraudulent use of a credit card and admitted the protection is worthless.

Whomever stole the credit card numbers from Sony did it to embarrass the company and as revenge for the persecution of George Hotz, the man who jailbroke the Playstation 3. Sony is after this fellow, because it thinks that it is going to lose a load of money out of the Playstation hack. With the situation what it is, they may very well lose some money. There is no doubt at all the cracking of their network will cost them a fortune. The Sony Corporation is getting hit from all sides, and they really cannot win in any respect to all this.

It is pretty obvious Sony did not handle the jailbreaking of the Playstation 3 very well, and while I do not condone criminal activity, I can understand (in the general sense) why people are attacking Sony. If a security researcher from some university with a PhD had broken the playstation 3, they might have asked him or her to cease and desist, but Sony went after Hotz with a vengeance and wanted to make him pay for his 'transgression.' Computer programming is done with pure logic, so there is no way to make any computer system secure forever.
Sony would have been better off to try and contain the Playstation breach and gone on about its business. Instead they instigated what many saw as an act of war, and someone fired a smart bomb at them.

I left for Lord of the Rings Online. Sorry SOE, you left me hanging with nothing. I won't be coming back, but I wish no ill-will against y'all.

hyas all.. i too am waiting patiently...but... decided to at least try the free 7 day rift... looks like 1 day is going to go to DL patch etc.... is this thing even worth wasting 6 days on?.. thanx for reply

So besides the monthly fees we have paid over the yrs

Expansions: we own what exactly? the CDs if we still have em and any physical trinket (map) that came w it...

What about the digital ones (do we own anything from that?

What about the items given to those that attended Fan Faires

What about those that got early release expansions

Beta testers anyone?

Most recently what about those that paid extra money for COLLECTORS edition? do they own any of that

Ststion cash or items?

Lon Stuff?

Its kinda like when you split up and seeing if u are entitled to anything especially stuff that you paid for (besides the subscription)

After 10 yrs all you get from this a FU very much ty for the $$? makes me more mad for ever playing...

http://www.statesman.com/business/technology/sony-picks-debix-inc-of-austin-to-help-1459623.html

they told me on phone that everyone gets the 30 days Plus starting when they get the servers up .
as i called to find out same thing , my paying date was 8th i canceled my cc on the 3rd after sonys hints.

I would like to propose that anyone leaving a post more than a few paragraphs long should be fed to middle-eastern dogs.

I would also like all geniuses that are now asking for QUAD-XPs to try walking down the sidewalk using only their forehead!

Yes, you read that right: QUAD-XPs! Again, this just reinforces the fact that over 93% of adult humans in this world are within 9 IQ points of being considered mentally retarded. True statistic.

/help

I can only hope Sony gives every body a randomly generated password before turning there services back on, so that we have to reset it before logging in! Sony has our email addresses. They could set up an alfanumeric generator and assign each account holder a new password emailing it to us..

FINALLY....I just saw that they are going to provide a free credit protection service. Like I said I could care less about a couple of days here and there. Cost me my credit rating and I will do everything in my power to return the favor. Class action suits do work. However, I will believe it when I see it.

http://soepool.com

All you have to do is pick a date and time when you think SoE is coming back up and if your guess is the closest you can win up to 500,000 plat on the Firiona Vie server. Completely free, no ads.

how do you leave a comment on facebook for the SOE site when there is no comment button to click? i only see a share buton in blue. ******* soe is pissing me off with there lack of info now. Like telling us a date would be too much to ask......you take our money every damn month.....tell us when the ******* game is going to be back on.

curious, I cancelled my credit card and am being issued a different card number. Since my account is cancelled, does this mean I wont be getting the free days? Didnt want to keep my old credit card, that wouldve been nuts.

I hope currently un-active accounts are getting free 30 days too.

I was unactive because of money issues for a few months and was about to re-sub. I bought $20 worth of SC a few days before the servers went down (when they had double SC day), and was planning to re-sub within the next few days, then this happens. I am about the buy the DoV exp too because I found it for $20.

So yeah, I hope they give me 30 free days too cause I WAS impacted by this, otherwise I probably won't get the exp and I will prob have to force a refund for my SC.

Why does it still say the 11th? Everyone knows its the 12th and almost even the 13th. OMG! Tomorrow's Friday the Thirteenth!!!

I play the progression server Fippy Darkpaw for a reason. I don't want there to be increased XP of any kind to make up for the downtime. The free month plus free days plus free extra identify theft security is enough. I can understand allowing 1 double XP weekend, but no more. No XP potions, no in game items, nothing else.

We play Fippy so we can get away from all that garbage. Please don't have compensation that will go against the nature of the server.