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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[The bigger picture behind SOE's Living Legacy strategy]]></title><link>http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/06/08/the-bigger-picture-behind-soes-living-legacy-strategy/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/06/08/the-bigger-picture-behind-soes-living-legacy-strategy/</guid><comments>http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/06/08/the-bigger-picture-behind-soes-living-legacy-strategy/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/fantasy/" rel="tag">Fantasy</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/everquest/" rel="tag">EverQuest</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/everquest-ii/" rel="tag">EverQuest II</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/events-in-game/" rel="tag">Events, in-game</a></p><div align="left"><a href="http://lolcats.com/"><img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" align="right" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/massively.joystiq.com/media/2008/06/lolcatstinfoilhat.jpg" /></a><a href="http://tagn.wordpress.com/">The Ancient Gaming Noob</a> is stirring up the crack pots <a href="http://tagn.wordpress.com/2008/06/06/a-new-world-order-at-soe/">in this excellent post</a> questioning whether or not a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_Order_(conspiracy)">New World Order</a> is taking shape over at <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/tag/soe">Sony Online Entertainment</a>. Why would he think that? Well all the ballyhoo surrounding the <a href="http://livinglegacy.station.sony.com/">Living Legacy</a> promotion of course. In an unprecedented move SOE <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/06/02/soes-living-legacy-campaign-gives-you-2-free-months-in-eq-and-e/">reactivated and marked over a million <em>EQ</em>/<em>EQ2</em> accounts for free play</a> until July 25th. Oh yea, that's freakin' insane, not to mention the deal only gets sweeter because it comes with a ton of perks and incentives for those that resub to either <a href="http://eqplayers.station.sony.com/index.vm"><em>EverQuest</em></a> or <a href="http://eq2players.station.sony.com/index.vm"><em>EverQuestII</em></a>.<br /></div>
<br />While some disgruntled players who were already active <em><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/everquest/">EQ</a>/<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/everquest-ii/">EQ2</a></em> subscribers at the time of the announcement <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/06/05/the-daily-grind-how-do-you-feel-about-living-legacy/">lament</a>, as felt in <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/06/08/living-legacy-what-it-does-and-what-it-doesnt/">various</a> <a href="http://clockworkgamer.com/2008/06/04/what-if-soe-sold-lettuce/">drama</a> <a href="http://mmoquests.com/2008/06/03/living-legacy-rant/">bombs</a> around the blogosphere; the case he presents and the reasons listed are very intriguing. We would go into greater detail into the theory, but we don't want to spoil it. <a href="http://tagn.wordpress.com/2008/06/06/a-new-world-order-at-soe/">Go read it</a> and come back here and tell us what you think about <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/tag/living-legacy">Living Legacy</a> and the speculative truth behind it. Is he onto something?<p style="padding:5px;background:#ffffcc;border:1px solid #ffff99;clear:both;"><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com"><img src="http://massively.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif" alt="Massively" style="float:left;padding:0 5px 5px 0;" /></a><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/06/08/the-bigger-picture-behind-soes-living-legacy-strategy/">The bigger picture behind SOE's Living Legacy strategy</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com">Massively</a> on Sun, 08 Jun 2008 22:00:00 EST.  Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.<br style="clear:both;"></p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href=http://tagn.wordpress.com/2008/06/06/a-new-world-order-at-soe/>Read</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/06/08/the-bigger-picture-behind-soes-living-legacy-strategy/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/forward/1219222/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/06/08/the-bigger-picture-behind-soes-living-legacy-strategy/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>]]></description><category>conspiracy</category><category>eq</category><category>eq2</category><category>eq2-gu-46</category><category>everquest</category><category>living-legacy</category><category>new-world-order</category><category>soe</category><category>sony-online-entertainment</category><category>tagn</category><category>the-ancient-gaming-noob</category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Matt Warner]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 22:00:00 EST</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
