It's a nice gesture, but they're offering it to the wrong people. Someone who played the game since launch and let their subscription lapse the day before the abrupt announcement would not get this severance package while someone who just created an account would - and with the game having been heavily discounted for a while, the most recent deal being just a dollar on Amazon and a penny at Gamestop/EB Games - I suspect that there's quite a few of the latter people receiving this package.

If NCsoft really cared, they'd be offering it to the veterans; the veterans program was designed to reward players in three-month intervals (the three months had to be consecutive). This way, only the actual loyal currently active players would receive it, and it would bring back the veteran players who might have leftover game cards, who might have been waiting for the new Earth maps or first-person camera to be implemented before resubscribing, or who had invested their hard-earned money and countless hours into NCsoft's last two monthly fee-required titles and feel ripped off now (note that Auto Assault's severance package was done the same way, and I really doubt many AA players played Tabula Rasa after their complementary month).

What incentives do currently active TR players have to play other NCsoft titles? Absolutely none - but many veterans already do.

I'm curious - what's the discussion at Massively like? I hope it's not "Free Aion for Tabula Rasa players? Damn, I would have subscribed if I had known." =p