SOE Substitutions
Since SOE’s services — including all of its MMOs — will be down through the weekend (at the very least), I’m stepping up to do my part and help out bored players who may be fishing around for a substitute game to fill up some time (and without spending any money on a sub). Most astute gamers will already know of these, so consider this a public service to those who’ve rarely stepped outside of SOE’s comforting bubble.
- EverQuest players could check out a few of the older MMOs that have free trials, such as Ultima Online, Asheron’s Call and Dark Age of Camelot
- EverQuest 2 players could see what the free-to-play competition is like over in Lord of the Rings Online
- Vanguard players could form a support group (I kid! I kid!). Er… RuneScape?
- DCUOers could head over to Champions Online to take out their super-rage on mutants and robotic cowboys
- Planetsiders could be easily sated by Global Agenda
- Star Wars Galaxies folks could visit their scifi brethren in Anarchy Online
- Free Realmers might do well to spend a weekend in Wizard101
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You were supposed to point them all to rift and get them hopelessly addicted
I would suggest that Vanguard players head over to LotRO since that’s a nice big open world. It’s a sandboxy as a major Western fantasy MMO gets these days.
The EQ2 players should take up a WoW free trial . That way they can see the game that beat their own game to be the premier fantasy MMO. As a homework assignment, they can try and explain why
Just been told that Alienware are giving away 7 day trial codes for Rift, so the SoE players can give that a try without shelling out:
http://www.alienwarearena.com/news/405/rift-7-day-trial-key-giveaway/
If Trion are smart, they’ll find out where they can buy a database of 25 million SoE players to email them a similar offer :p
“If Trion are smart, they’ll find out where they can buy a database of 25 million SoE players to email them a similar offer :p”
That would be unethical and potentially illegal… But placing RIFT ads where SOE players go for updates on this outage would be targeted marketing well within competitive best practice :p