A forum announcement was made, informing the community of a compensation being rolled out today.
Following the deployment of the 2.48 update, players encountered difficulties accessing the game.
As a result, we will credit a subscription day to all active players (having logged in at least once between Monday at 00:01 and today at 10:30) with a subscription that was active during the incident.
All active players will also receive 5x30compensokens and 5 pirate transformation potions.
We are doing our best to distribute all compensations over the course of the day. Giventhe large number of accounts involved, it will take several hours.
We apologize again for the inconvenience caused.
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Following the deployment of the 2.48 update, players encountered difficulties accessing the game.
As a result, we will credit a subscription day to all active players (having logged in at least once between Monday at 00:01 and today at 10:30) with a subscription that was active during the incident.
All active players will also receive 5x30compensokens and 5 pirate transformation potions.
We are doing our best to distribute all compensations over the course of the day. Giventhe large number of accounts involved, it will take several hours.
We apologize again for the inconvenience caused.
Following the deployment of the 2.48 update, players encountered difficulties accessing the game.
As a result, we will credit a subscription day to all active players (having logged in at least once between Monday at 00:01 and today at 10:30) with a subscription that was active during the incident.
All active players will also receive 5x30compensokens and 5 pirate transformation potions.
We are doing our best to distribute all compensations over the course of the day. Giventhe large number of accounts involved, it will take several hours.
We apologize again for the inconvenience caused.
Let's figure out how much money you actually lost, by not being able to play for 7 hours on 3 accounts.
The game still costs $7/month, right? So that's $7 for 720 hours, that's about 0.972 cents per hour... which comes out to about 20 cents. (That's total, for all three accounts)
Or... if you want to count it as a full day? That's 70 cents total, for all three accounts.
(And that's assuming you're paying month-to-month, which is the most expensive rate)
When you get right down to it, this game is still damn cheap, probably the cheapest non-F2P MMORPG in existence (and those other "free" MMORPGs get you in other ways). If Ankama was really as greedy as most people say they were, they would have at least raised the cost of subscriptions over the past thirteen years to match the cost of inflation, but they haven't.