MxO and SOE's strategic direction

Prisoner

Well, maybe overdramatized a bit, but MxO finally has a place in the lineup (this also gives a hint about when the CR might be finalized?):

http://eq2players.station.sony.com/news_archive.vm?id=709&section=News&month=current

SAN DIEGO, CA – February 14, 2006 – Sony Online Entertainment Inc. (SOE), a global leader in the online games industry, today announced the Station Access™ Collection, a bundled anthology that includes the top online PC games published or developed by SOE to date. The Station Access Collection is scheduled to be available at retail on March 14 and will carry a suggested retail price of $39.99.

“Online gaming has become a huge part of PC gamers’ lives over the last few years and we felt that now would be the perfect time to introduce new players to our diverse line-up of online games,” said Mike Lustenberger, vice president, marketing, Sony Online Entertainment. “This collection includes everything from first-person action to high fantasy role-playing to piloting X-Wings in deep space combat. The Station Access Collection is a great deal for players, collecting five very different online worlds together for the price of a single game.”

The Station Access Collection brings together all of SOE ’s hit online PC titles in one collection. Included in the package are EverQuest® Evolution™, EverQuest® II, The Matrix Online™ and PlanetSide® Aftershock, as well as Star Wars Galaxies ®, developed in conjunction with LucasArts. The collection will include 30-day trials for new players of each of the five games, allowing them to play with hundreds of thousands of other people around the globe. The Station Access Collection will only be available on DVD -ROM.

**UniToxic**

this is our last chance of finally getting some major players into the game with that dvd-rom
if the game isn't right when thats out then i think thats it SMILEY

ill still be here till the end but i hope this game is perfect and ready for some major story line events and content when thats released

**jeffers**

Well we're at the top of the list on the Station Access Page.

Sounds good, maybe I'll make a purchase.

Jeffers

**El_Guapo**

Finally a little marketing news.

Th3Hun

nice! first time I hear this and its old news ... but good news SMILEY

Tiberius

Hopefully it wont end up like SWG

shadows_of_pain

Im in canada and i noticed this in my bestbuy flyer. Only the avalibility date is the 20th of march... same day as cr2.0 goes live *plays twighlight zone theme*

shadows_of_pain

Seems this set is popular. all the stores in my town are back ordered. That includes EB, BestBuy, Futureshop (canadian version of bestbuy owned by bestbuy) and even walmart are all sold out. Another good sign is the sudden influx of noobs to the servers which means more money for SOE which means better chance at getting good live events ^.^

**skyscream**

What makes me laugh.. without fail... is that Bestbuy owns future shop... yet Bestbuy has stores here in Coquitlam and a number of other cities in the lower mainland.

LOL.

Talk about market domination eh?

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