SOE announces free stuff for those affected by outage

In light of the recent and extended outage of the PlayStation Network and Sony Online Entertainment games like Everquest, Vanguard, PoxNora, DC Universe, SOE has decided to begin to pay back customers for their lack of service. On May 12th, SOE announced that 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. This will be for each game you own.

Furthermore, many games are offering in-game items, Double XP, Tournaments in an attempt to welcome back players once the games are back online.

• DC Universe™ Online: Batman™ and Two-Face™ Inspired Masks and 30 Marks of Distinction
• Free Realms®: Free daily items (7 to collect)
• Clone Wars Adventures™: Count Dooku v2 Outfit
• EverQuest®: A series of events, including Double XP, Double Rare Mob Spawns and Double Faction Gains
• EverQuest II and EverQuest II Extended: A series of events, including Double XP, Double Guild XP, Loot Bonanza, and City Festivals
• Vanguard: Saga of Heroes®: A series of Double XP events
• Star Wars Galaxies™: Bounty Hunter Statue, a miniature model of Boba Fett's ship, the Slave I™
• Magic: The Gathering - Tactics™: Four of each of these spells: "Ivory Mask", "Duress" and "Angelheart Vial", plus 500 Station Cash
• PoxNora®: Limited edition Carrionling, Welcome Back 5K Gold Award Tournaments and two Draft Tournaments, plus 500 Station Cash

For customers who have lifetime accounts SOE is giving away in game currency. "Specifically 20,000 coins for Free Realms, 7,500 Galactic Credits for Clone Wars Adventures and 10 Marks of Distinction for DC Universe Online (in addition to the items listed above). And finally, our Station Access subscribers will receive 500 Station Cash, in addition to the subscription time and items listed above."

And lastly, SOE also announced that they will provide U.S based Station Account holders with complimentary entrollment in an identify theft protection program through Debix. If you live out of the US you are not out of luck as SOE will be offering similiar programs if an as available once the details have been confirmed for each country/region.

For more information check out http://www.soe.com/securityupdate/recentupdates.vm