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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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SOE: Personal Information May Have Been Stolen [General News]
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As we previously reported , all Sony Online Entertainment services, games, forums and web sites went offline this morning as a result of the recent Playstation Network intrusion. SOE just issued an announcement , and it appears that the personal information of players may have been compromised. Here are the details straight from SOE: "Our ongoing investigation of illegal intrusions into Sony Online Entertainment systems has discovered that hackers may have obtained personal customer information from SOE systems. We are today advising you that the personal information you provided us in connection with your SOE account may have been stolen in a cyber-attack. Stolen information includes, to the extent you provided it to us, the following: name, address (city, state, zip, country), email address, gender, birthdate, phone number, login name and hashed password." SOE goes on to state that there is no evidence that their main credit card database was compromise ...
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SOE Currently Has'No ETA'on Game Services [General News]
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UPDATE, May 4: SOE has answered some common questions about the attack . UPDATE, 6:41 p.m. PDT, May 3: SOE spokewoman Taina Rodriguez told The San Diego Union-Tribune that the network will be shut down until Friday and possibly longer. UPDATE, 6:15 p.m. PDT, May 3: SOE posted on Facebook ," We continue to work on the issues as fast as we can, but unfortunately the servers will not come up today. Thank you for your continued patience; we expect to be back up very soon. " As we previously reported , all Sony Online Entertainment services, games, forums and web sites went offline this morning as a result of the recent Playstation Network intrusion. SOE issued an announcement which revealed that personal information had been compromised. Players were, for the most part, relieved that credit card information was safe, but wanted to know when they could play their games. The press release only said,"Our teams are working around the clock on this, and se ...
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SOE Answers Common Questions About Attack [General News]
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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, 9:15 p.m. EDT, May 6 : SOE posted on Facebook ,"We wanted to let you know that our games will not be up this weekend. We are working around the clock to get our services back up and running soon. Thank you for your continued patience and support." While we all wait for the Sony Online Entertainment services to come back online following an attack on the network , SOE posted a brief FAQ today to keep players updated on the situation. While they don't provide any new details, SOE has said it will continue to post updates to the site with new information as it becomes available. According to the FAQ , some games and services are expected to be up and running"soon."SOE emphasizes that the services will only be restored once the network is secure. SOE spokewoman Taina Rodriguez told The San Diego Union-Tribune that t ...
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SOE:'Our Games Will Not Be Up This Weekend'[General News]
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Sony Online Entertainment just posted the following on Facebook : "We wanted to let you know that our games will not be up this weekend. We are working around the clock to get our services back up and running soon. Thank you for your continued patience and support." For more details on the hacker attack that has kept SOE down since May 2 and compromised the personal information of players, check out SOE's brief FAQ and all of our previous coverage . 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.
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Multiple House Ownership Hits Live Servers [EverQuest II]
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Decorators, rejoice! Today's update brings multiple house ownership to all Live servers. Currently a limit of ten homes per character is in place, though that limit may be relaxed later on. Many changes go into place today, including another revamp of the character window. Each player will now have six house vault slots, which are shared among all of his/her homes and will in turn give access to all six broker slots. Players with a guild hall that has the Portal to Member Housing amenity can now choose to go to any house they have Friend+ access. Owners of prestige houses can place portal objects to link that home to any house to which they have trustee access. All of these changes and more are updated in our Player Housing Guide !
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