PSA - Free Stuff In One Of The Few Games I Actually Play These Days!

I probably ought to do a proper post on this at some point but it's late and I'd like to get something up for today to keep my Blaugust run going, so in the spirit of Wilhelm's Motivational Post, where he says "I am very much of the mind that publishing something, even half formed, is better than publishing nothing", here's a rushed PSA for anyone who plays EverQuest II, cribbed entirely from the official press release, which I just skim-read five minutes ago.

Freebies! Grab 'em while they're hot!

Everyone, free players included, is entitled to something snappily named the EverQuest II 2025 Crate. It's available for free in the in-game cash shop and you can have one for every character on every account you own. I doubt I'll bother to log in all nine or ten accounts I have access to, including Mrs Bhagpuss's old ones, but I'll certainly grab a crate for every character on my regular account.

Inside that crate you will find:

• Cloak of Winning
• Goldstone Sentinel
• Visage of Growth
• Portable Translocation Device - x5
• Portable Circle of Growth - x5
• Mercenary Unlock Scroll 
• Zimaran Swag It Out Familiar Infusion

As you might be able to tell, I've lazily cut and pasted this from the official announcement, which you could easily just go read instead of this post. It has pictures of everything, too, which is just as well because I sure don't have time to claim the crate this evening, open it up, sort the contents, equip the visible stuff and take screenshots. I'll save that for the putative "proper post", should it ever happen.

So much for the FTP side. On to the Subscribers. Or Members as Darkpaw like to call us.

Here, you just get the one crate per account. It'd better be a good one, then. 

I'll let you all judge for yourselves.

This crate is called the EverQuest II 2025 Subscriber Crate. You really do have to hand it to whoever it is that's coming  up with these names. I couldn't do it, could you?

What's in it then?

• Allyrian Wings of Winning
• Magical Equipment Unattuner - x3
• Nagafen's Abode Deed of Ownership
• EverQuest II 2025 Celebration Subscriber Gear Bag 
  • Full set of armor, weapons, accessories
  • Zimaran Rune: Money Sink
  • Zimaran Rune: Ready Check
  • Sovereign's Rampage
  • Sovereign's Remnant
  • Spirit of Drakkel
  • Well Prepared
  • Vrakorr Scroll Case - x2
  • Velium Drachma - x50

 Blimey, Charlie! That is a lot! There's a flippin' prestige house in there. And a full set of gear.

Is that actual gear with stats, though, or just appearance?  Hmm. Not sure. Appearance, I think, but the runes and accessories, which are all deteailed in the press release, have stats. BIG stats. You'll want those, especially if you're a casual like me.

I'll get back to you on the rest of the deets when I've claimed mine, which as I said is not going to be tonight.

There's no need to rush, anyway. The crates are in the Marketplace until 22 September. 

And remember - they're free!