14 DAY TRIAL // Sony Online Entertainment has decided to implement its own sort of "make good" offer for subscribers that were affected by the recent hacker attack, and has launched a special SOE All Access Pass, instead of the older Station Pass, which allows customers to play almost all of the major online games from the Japanese company.
Sony was forced to take down its PlayStation Network as well as its Online Entertainment servers after a hacker attack resulted in the theft of private user data from both those services.
Now, things have returned to normal, so the Japanese company is offering several "Welcome Back" offers to those who once again joined its online services.
For Sony Online Entertainment users, the company has just revealed the newest and cheapest way to gain access to almost all of its MMOs, in the form of the SOE All Access Pass.
The new pass, which costs $19.99, replaces the older Station one, which was priced at $30, and allows players access into titles like Everquest, Everquest II, Pirates of the Burning Sea, Planetside, DC Universe Online, Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures, Free Realms, Vanguard, and the free-to-play Everquest II Extended.
The latest releases, however, will still require special purchases, including the newest expansions to Everquest and Everquest II, as well as Vanguard or DC Universe Online, not to mention the fact that Free Realms or Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures were already free to play and the most popular online titles from the company.
Still, the offer is pretty solid and, if you get the SOE All Access pass for one year, you end up paying an even cheaper $14.99 per month.
The company also revealed during the hacker attack that users who had their subscription affected by the outage will gain bonus playtime as well as special in-game goodies for their support.