SOE 'Station Access' relaunched cheaper as 'All Access'

SOE's 'Station Access' subscription granting membership to multiple MMOs is relaunching as 'All Access,' with $10 knocked off the monthly price.

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MMO magpie Sony Online Entertainment has relaunched its 'Station Access' subscription under the new name 'All Access' and knocked $10 off the monthly price. It includes membership to ten SOE games, four of them free-to-play, for only $5 per month more than a single subscription.

An All Access sub will let you play DC Universe Online on PC, EverQuest, EverQuest II, EverQuest Online Adventures for PlayStation 2, PlanetSide, and Vanguard: Saga of Heroes with the single subscription fee.

It also includes premium access to several free-to-play SOE games, with Gold membership for EverQuest II Extended, Captain's Club membership for Pirates of the Burning Sea, and membership for the PC and Mac editions of Free Realms and Star Wars: The Clone Wars Adventures. The only game not included in All Access is Star Wars Galaxies, which will be shut down later this year.

SOE's original Station Access cost $29.99 per month, the price of two regular SOE subscriptions. SOE's newly introduced All Access pass is $10 cheaper, with lower rates for longer commitments. One month will cost you $19.99, while paying for three months knocks the cost down to $17.99 per month, six months are $16.99 each, and a year's subscription costs works out as only $14.99 per month.

An All Access subscription will let you play most of its games without paying a penny, but you'll need to purchase some recent titles and expansion packs. DC Universe Online and Vanguard will need to be bought separately, as will expansions EverQuest: House of Thule and EverQuest II: Destiny of Velious.

Station Access members are automatically transferred to the All Access scheme and will be charged the new price when they're next billed. They'll also retain the bonus character slots offered to Station Access members in several MMORPGs, which are not included with All Access subscriptions.

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    June 29, 2011 7:15 AM

    Alice O'Connor posted a new article, SOE 'Station Access' relaunched cheaper as 'All Access'.

    SOE's 'Station Access' subscription granting membership to multiple MMOs is relaunching as 'All Access,' with $10 knocked off the monthly price.

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      June 29, 2011 7:57 AM

      Makes me wonder if there's any chance my old everquest characters are still there... Haven't seen them since 2004 :(

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        June 29, 2011 8:35 AM

        To my knowledge, they've never deleted characters off any server. Their policy says they _can_ delete them after a certain period of non-activity, but I've never once heard of this happening. My characters, originally made in 1999, and on accounts that have gone 3 to 4 years of being cancelled have always been there when I decided to mess around for a month or two.

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          June 29, 2011 8:37 AM

          The only reason mine are deleted was because of hte Nameless Server's crash.. data was corrupted and I couldn't get it back

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            June 29, 2011 12:13 PM

            They've also merged servers, so if you had too many characters to fit on a single server, the excess characters are put in a queue and when you delete one you don't want, one of the hidden ones becomes available again. Not sure if they ever added a way to managed them other than that.

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      June 29, 2011 8:22 AM

      and the perks just keep comin !!!

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      June 29, 2011 9:14 AM

      How would you even find time to play all those games and actually make any progress? DCUO is a very casual friendly game but the others take a lot of time and commitment to play.

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        June 29, 2011 9:27 AM

        Probably meant for people who like to dabble in many rather than be great at one.

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      June 29, 2011 4:05 PM

      Anyone else quote 'The Fifth Element' when they saw this news story?

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