500 Bonus station cash this weekend.

Kilratha · 2012-06-08, 11:22 AM

Just wanted to let you all know about this.
Do you want to start saving up some Station Cash now for when PS2 comes out? This weekend if you buy a station cash card at a retailer and input the code you will get bonus 500 station cash. So 15 dollars will get you 2000 station cash instead of 1500. (If you can find a 15 dollar card...and I just realized I sound like an advertisement...Oh well)

This advert was found on the EQ2 site, but is good for station cash in general. P.S.I just made sure Station Cash does not expire.

http://www.everquest2.com/news/artic...62012&id=51239

VelRa · 2012-06-08, 11:47 AM

Thanks for the heads up. I do intend on spending money. The only game ive spent money on in a long time is tribes!

Tatwi · 2012-06-08, 11:50 AM

Please note that the following change was made to the use of Station Cash:

Station Cash can no longer be used to pay subscription fees in Everquest II or Everquest.

While SOE did not say so, this was likely done to clear up the issue of people buying the $15 Walmart cards which grant 500SC extra and then using the card on tripple SC weekends to get $60 worth of sub time for only $15. That was just sheer insanity for any company to do!

Also, it means that people can't indirectly trade in game currency for game time any more (which is not supported, not policed, and not actually supposed to happen in their games, but people will be people...).

RSphil · 2012-06-08, 01:08 PM

being in the uk i want to build up my station cash to spend it all in planetside 2 but not sure about the transfare stuff to this other company who will be running it for the EU

wish soe would keep it and just use EU servers

duomaxwl · 2012-06-08, 01:11 PM

I got the friggin email for this on my phone. You better believe I was having a mini-freakout when I saw Sony Online Entertainment pop up on my phone.
This is cool too..

Stardouser · 2012-06-08, 04:53 PM

Originally Posted by Tatwi

Please note that the following change was made to the use of Station Cash:

Station Cash can no longer be used to pay subscription fees in Everquest II or Everquest.

While SOE did not say so, this was likely done to clear up the issue of people buying the $15 Walmart cards which grant 500SC extra and then using the card on tripple SC weekends to get $60 worth of sub time for only $15. That was just sheer insanity for any company to do!

Also, it means that people can't indirectly trade in game currency for game time any more (which is not supported, not policed, and not actually supposed to happen in their games, but people will be people...).

SOE was intentionally holding triple SC weekends. As far as that goes, if they regret doing it, they should stop holding triple SC weekends. And as far as the walmart card issue, that's just unrelated insanity.

First, I thought there was a maximum number of SC you could buy on triple weekends, and that they only had this once or twice per year? If they did not intend people to use Station Cash to buy a one month EQ sub for basically $5, then what is the point of having triple weekends? Are the other items for which you can use SC overpriced to begin with?

Kilratha · 2012-06-08, 07:29 PM

Does anyone know if you can buy 4 500 pt cards and get a bonus 500 pts on each card? I tried searching for the info but can not locate it. Has anyone had any luck themselves when doing this?

TheBear · 2012-06-08, 07:59 PM

Guys, Sony often has 2 for 1 or 3 for 1 sales of SC. On my grad day in April, they had 3:1. I definitely am sitting on quite a bounty. And believe me.. Sony got theirs out of it.

I would caution those on a very tight budget to wait for these days.

But! This is a free 5 bucks, good find.. nothing to sneeze at!

Soothsayer · 2012-06-08, 08:10 PM

I'd wait for a calendar holiday.

I'm going to max out a third account on SC on the next triple cash day, which I'm thinking will be the US independence day coming up.

wattle · 2012-06-08, 08:29 PM

Guys, just wait for a bonus double point sale, or even triple/quad deals.

I bought twenty dollars worth of SOE cash a couple months ago during the double sale, I'm guessing they'll do that again soon for summer or some other holiday.

Dart · 2012-06-08, 08:34 PM

Originally Posted by wattle

Guys, just wait for a bonus double point sale, or even triple/quad deals.

I bought twenty dollars worth of SOE cash a couple months ago during the double sale, I'm guessing they'll do that again soon for summer or some other holiday.

Do these offers only apply to store bought cards or can you get them by purchasing directly from SOE online too?

SUBARU · 2012-06-08, 08:35 PM

If you buy a card at Walmart. They allways give you a $5 bonus there.

Kilratha · 2012-06-08, 08:41 PM

The reason I ask my CVS has a ton of 99 cent cards, and was wondering if i bought 5 of those if I would get 2995 station cash for the equivilant of 5 dollars.

I guess I could just go try it out and only be out 5 dollars if I it is not, but thought I would ask if anyone had experience with it first.

FINALCUT · 2012-06-08, 10:44 PM

Originally Posted by duomaxwl

I got the friggin email for this on my phone. You better believe I was having a mini-freakout when I saw Sony Online Entertainment pop up on my phone.
This is cool too..

I was the same way. I about crapped myself when I got the email from SOE. Cruel,cruel joke.

Sifer2 · 2012-06-08, 10:51 PM

Well in one of the video's Higby said Planetside 2 kind of has its own item shop currency that sits along side the station cash. And i'm not sure whether that means you need to buy it or station cash. Would be dumb to load up on SC to find its useless in PS2.