General Discussion

The folks at Vanguard have announced that accounts that have been inactive for 60 days or more have been reactivated for a month, to give former player the chance to see what's new in Telon.

Former Vanguard subscribers whose accounts have been inactive for 60 days or more are being called back to Telon! Come back to Vanguard Saga of Heroes for free* starting Sept. 18, 2008, through Oct. 18, 2008, through your reactivated account and uncover new game updates, enhanced character models and an exciting new starting area, the Isle of Dawn.

Those heroes who return to Vanguard through this reactivation promotion, create a new character and journey through the Isle of Dawn while achieving level 10, and then continue into the lands of Telon by re-subscribing to Vanguard with a paid, active subscription in good standing will receive a special pair of Gnomish Rocket Boots**. These boots will help you to progress through the land with great bursts of speed. The Gnomish Boots are yours once you progress off the Isle of Dawn and into the world beyond.

Accounts will be reactivated starting Sept. 18, 2008, at 12:01 a.m. PDT through Oct. 18, 2008, at 11:59 p.m. PDT, so come back to see the great new features for yourself. Simply log back in, rejoin the adventure, start a new character and visit the Isle of Dawn for free!

Read more here.

NEw character models are still ugly and the animations still are piss poor and the trial island looks like generic crap.

Wasn't the free trial supposed to start last week?

This is great, I unsibscribed a couple months ago, but I may as well start playing again.  Hopefully the game will keep my interest longer than before.

I also being a returning vet of past 60 days and have a free month of VG.

I logged in an ventured about during a few peak hours of playtime.

Population just wasnt there, world is almost to big an empty still for my tastes. (Seradon)

Also I just bought WAR an there's people running around everywhere adventuring, rvr, and public questing.

I don't think I will be utilizing my free month thx to WAR.

I'm not worried seeing how every few months Vanguard is f2p.

nevermind, misread :P

Originally posted by Dwarfman420

I also being a returning vet of past 60 days and have a free month of VG.

I logged in an ventured about during a few peak hours of playtime.

Population just wasnt there, world is almost to big an empty still for my tastes. (Seradon)

Also I just bought WAR an there's people running around everywhere adventuring, rvr, and public questing.

I don't think I will be utilizing my free month thx to WAR.

I'm not worried seeing how every few months Vanguard is f2p.

Now i like reading this and it DOES prove my theory on WOW gamers.Most everyone goes to games that have population ,this is further testament to the facts.I have said all along that WOW is a very weak game,but because it has so many players ,this attracts more ,especially kids who wouldn't know a cheap effort from a brilliant one.

I have also stated many times VANGUARD is amongst the best efforts in a long time.The problem for me was also the fact ,that the game was sooo big and there just was not the population.I could handle that to some extent,if i could do some quests solo/duo,but of course the better ones require at least 3-6.I was lucky to even see 3 other players most of the time.The other major flaw was factions,i really don't like that time sink in gaming at all.I realize SIGIL was former EQ staff and that is why a lot of there content was the same as EQ,but factions,,grrr.I don't want to spend hour after hour trying to gain favour so i can at least get within a country mile of that zone or do any of it's content.

All it took to make me quit was getting aggro from so far away ,then i couldn''t get away and had to go all the way back and die again from insanely distant aggro.Drove me nuts at such a ridiculous unrealistic aggro distance.If i had to wander around an empty world it had better at least give the chance to wander around by myself ..lol.Anyhow not a rant,just my pet peeve,other than that the game was real good and had great graphics.I did enjoy the card game as well.

Without a decent pop i can't see myself returning to wander around looking for aggro,sorry to see this game could never take off with the public.They would rather play 12 colour palette texture games and look cute on there level 30 mount.

What I'm wondering is whether or not the subscribers that are actually playing this game get charged during these free times hahaha. That would suck for them.

how the heck do you get to play for free?

I entered my name and password and it wanted to charge me $14.95 or something.... no way im putting in my credit card and gonna pay and I saw no way to play for free with my old account.....

This is like the 4th time they've done this.  Counting the free month that came with buying the game I think I've had account access about 4 or 5 months worth for free.

edit - It appears this only applies to those who received an email.  I played during a free month they gave away between June and July... which was just less than 60 days ago, so I'm guessing I didn't get an email for that reason.  Oh well still same point... they keep giving away these free months isn't a good sign.