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    Funcom employee Celebrate Anarchy Online's 14 Year Anniversary!


    Celebrate the 14th Anniversary of Anarchy Online with us! The Desert Rider has returned and The Tinker is back to her usual shenanigans to thwart her foe! Festivities include new items, new membership offers, and the new graphics engine open beta! Read all about it here!

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    Last!
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    "Open beta" is the key term that hasn't been spoken yet. Thanks everything makes more sense now.
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    No free month? Go to hell..

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    Quote Originally Posted by kazador View Post
    no free month? Go to hell..
    you mean go to inferno ^_=
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    I just paid for 12 month sub 2 months ago...FML

    Now I really regret buying that 12 month sub.
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    Ya FC has the most backwards method of rewarding long term customers.

    Hello valued customer, we know you've been buying our product for the last 10 years, and since you haven't missed a subscription renewal, we know you'll just come back for more. Instead, we're going to entice a bunch of scrubs who might not even renew for the next three months by giving them a bunch of stuff you want.

    Hey, FC, you know what? Your marketing team has it backwards. If you want to keep customers happy, why don't you ensure that those that have maintained a steady stream of revenue for this game don't go unrewarded.

    I don't particularly *need* a luxurious armour set, but ya know what? It would be cool to make sure I got one too.

    Considering I buy 6 x 12month subscriptions every year, and this advertising simple says: "you don't matter", it doesn't really give me a lot of impetus to do ANY kind of positive word of mouth advertising for you. In fact, it makes me want to hate on FC/AO on public forums.


    Thanks for nothing,

    A loyal customer.

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    Quote Originally Posted by McKnuckleSamwich View Post
    Ya FC has the most backwards method of rewarding long term customers.

    Hello valued customer, we know you've been buying our product for the last 10 years, and since you haven't missed a subscription renewal, we know you'll just come back for more. Instead, we're going to entice a bunch of scrubs who might not even renew for the next three months by giving them a bunch of stuff you want.

    Hey, FC, you know what? Your marketing team has it backwards. If you want to keep customers happy, why don't you ensure that those that have maintained a steady stream of revenue for this game don't go unrewarded.

    I don't particularly *need* a luxurious armour set, but ya know what? It would be cool to make sure I got one too.

    Considering I buy 6 x 12month subscriptions every year, and this advertising simple says: "you don't matter", it doesn't really give me a lot of impetus to do ANY kind of positive word of mouth advertising for you. In fact, it makes me want to hate on FC/AO on public forums.


    Thanks for nothing,

    A loyal customer.
    Because swapping to single month renewal just before the anniversary is difficult right? You know fine well that they do this EVERY YEAR.
    Last edited by Raggy; Jun 26th, 2015 at 01:31:41.
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    You guys can still get the anniversary option. My sub still goes until August, but if you scroll down there's a spot that says "Special Anniversary Membership Offer" and when you click on that it takes you to the 3, 6, or 12 month options that can be added onto your current subscription. I ran into that problem myself with the holiday offer. I subbed for 6 months like normal, then noticed the actual area for it, had to put in a support ticket.

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    Question: Are the armor pieces account-wide? Or just one claim available?

    NM just saw this on the account page:
    * Items are available in the claim section in the in-game store
    ** Shared among characters on the account

    So yay!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Esssch View Post
    You guys can still get the anniversary option. My sub still goes until August, but if you scroll down there's a spot that says "Special Anniversary Membership Offer" and when you click on that it takes you to the 3, 6, or 12 month options that can be added onto your current subscription. I ran into that problem myself with the holiday offer. I subbed for 6 months like normal, then noticed the actual area for it, had to put in a support ticket.
    Yeah um, I am not buying another year after buying a year 2 months ago. Especially since I only played 3-4 weeks then the past month haven't even logged in. I've been sick past 2 weeks and haven't played any games at all but I probably wouldn't have been playing AO even if I wasn't sick.

    I bought a year knowing I'd probably play a month here and there, I plan to look back after the 12 months and see how much I played(I was hopeful/optimistic). Now I find out about this offer and I'm a little upset and I'm worried that I'll be even more regretful about buying a 1yr sub if it ends and I had hardly played during my subscription.

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    I went for the year deal in January. What are you expecting me to do? Go for another year deal only 6 months later? And then again next January? Come on.

    Not that I care overly much about the armour, I'm just pointing out how absurd it is to essentially chide people for paying a yearly sub.

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    Every year, same story. Its the world today.

    I bought shoes 55€, Then next week gf saw em on sale for 34.99. Life aint fair.
    Quote Originally Posted by Michizure View Post
    This'll be fixed for the next patch

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    You guys know these subscription offers come along during the holidays and during the anniversary. It's up to you whether you want to pay for a year sub every 6 months. I personally don't, but then I don't care for the way the Luxury armor looks anyways. During the year there's constant begging for sub offers, then when they come around, it's "how dare you not consider people who just bought a year's subscription for my 20 accounts a week ago! this is a slap in the face!" Take a step back and read how ridiculous you sound. You have 3 options: Pay for the extra months and shut up, don't pay for the extra months and shut up, or talk to Funcom's live chat and see if they'll be nice and just discount it for the months since you last renewed and also shut up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by McKnuckleSamwich View Post
    Ya FC has the most backwards method of rewarding long term customers.

    Hello valued customer, we know you've been buying our product for the last 10 years, and since you haven't missed a subscription renewal, we know you'll just come back for more. Instead, we're going to entice a bunch of scrubs who might not even renew for the next three months by giving them a bunch of stuff you want.

    Hey, FC, you know what? Your marketing team has it backwards. If you want to keep customers happy, why don't you ensure that those that have maintained a steady stream of revenue for this game don't go unrewarded.

    I don't particularly *need* a luxurious armour set, but ya know what? It would be cool to make sure I got one too.

    Considering I buy 6 x 12month subscriptions every year, and this advertising simple says: "you don't matter", it doesn't really give me a lot of impetus to do ANY kind of positive word of mouth advertising for you. In fact, it makes me want to hate on FC/AO on public forums.


    Thanks for nothing,

    A loyal customer.
    +100 Nooba, and they do this in other games as well, it's a kick in the teeth.

    In TSW they released a special offer, which included a kick-ass looking outfit and other component stuff as part of the offer but even as a Grandmaster account I can't access it.

    What they should have done is offered the outfit and component parts to all account holders of equal or greater status as well. I would have paid for the outfit separately, but I'm not forking out big $$$ for everything else just to get it.

    Very weird way of doing things.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Zeephonz View Post
    Very weird way of doing things.
    It's exactly the same way every other subscription based service in existence operates in regards to 'sub-based offers'.
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    Soo, "free open beta" as in "you pay us to find the bugs". ?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Shareida View Post
    Soo, "free open beta" as in "you pay us to find the bugs". ?
    No free as in you can access it from a fr00b account on the live server. Or stay with the vanilla engine.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Shareida View Post
    Soo, "free open beta" as in "you pay us to find the bugs". ?
    More like; you pay (or play as froob) to play the game on the live server as before. If you want to test the beta engine while you do that, you are free to do that. If not, use the old engine.

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    Even though they come along every year they really should include anyone who is currently in one of those payment brackets. It is pretty messed up that you could have bought a 12 month sub a month ago and not be eligible. That doesn't teach the lesson that you should wait until the anniversary event to resub, that teaches the lesson that they don't care about current long term subscribers since they have your money you and in the future you just shouldn't bother.

    Were talking virtual goods here, not physical ones so there is no cost to costumer loyalty loss ratio to consider here.
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