So, I (like many others) got in on that deal a few years ago that happened when the servers went down for weeks, if not months. I an my hubby have 4 accounts between us and we ended up going from slightly discounted subscriptions to EQ1 for 3 months at a time to paying only $29.25 per account every 3 months. That's $9.75 per month per account when you break it down.
When the Gold system broke out, we dumped our paid subscriptions for our "secondary" accounts, keeping gold for two accounts. But, because we were grandfathered in (playing for eons, lol, we got to keep 10 characters per un-paid account. (Not that we play that much anyhoo).
Why on Luclin would I want to jump on the all access? How much would I pay for all access considering that I'm only paying $9.75 per month on my golds (For EQ1)?
SOE 2014 Membership Update From John Smedley
Pricing for All Access will be lowered and Station Cash changes are being reverted.
Subscription for All Access is being lowered to $14.99/month, and the previously announced change to Station Cash bonuses for Gold Members is being done away with. The monthly 500 Station Cash bonus will stay in place with the only change being that members will have to actively claim it each month.
This information and more comes from another update by John Smedley (by way of the EverQuest Forums, by way of Reddit):
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 $14.992) 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
Source: John Smedley's post on Reddit, January 6 2014.
