Originally posted by dropp

hey, I was wondering if the case the OP is talking about occurs only when you upgrade the trial account with a retail key?

I mean, if I play the isle trial and then decide to subscribe to the game directly (paying 15$), will I have to pay another 15$ afterwards in order to get 30 days of playtime?

also, I'd really like to know if it's possible to use an SOE gametime card to activate a trial account with 30 days of playtime.

 

thanks

If you pay a months subscription you will get access to the full game for the 30 days you subscribed to.

If you bought a retail box, there should definately be an activation code in there (or printed somewhere on the manual). Just add that code to your existing Station account (the one you played the Vanguard trial with) and you will get your 30 days. I bought the Collector's Edition last month for $20 at my local Gamestop store (they still had one from 2 years ago), eneterd the code, and got my 30 days, plus all the Collector's edition items.

End of story was that i was given 3 days.
That'l teach me to buy a SOE game and foolishly adding it to the account i use for all my SOE games i guess.
Yay for multi accounts.

I recently bought a boxed copy of Vanguard and used the 30 day code on a new account.

when i first set up the account there was no time charged to it. I contacted SOE chat and they explained that they needed a CC to verify my identity.

I entered the CC against the new account

I got 30 days "free" alotted to the account.

It set me up on a billing cycle for first charge to be in April

I immediately canceled my sub. and was given 30 days.

If you buy a box do this ....not sure about ops issues.

Originally posted by Thekandy

End of story was that i was given 3 days.
That'l teach me to buy a SOE game and foolishly adding it to the account i use for all my SOE games i guess.
Yay for multi accounts.

Ahh, you already had an exisitng Station pass? If that's the case, then the 30 days out of the box are irrelevent..  And you didn't have to buy the software, you could have downloaded it from the Station Launcher for free.

The reason you dont get 30 free days when upgrading from the trial is simple. You get the full game for FREE when upgrading from trial. But then you don't get 30 free days on top of that.

So it's fair really. You can either buy the game and get 30 free days, or get the game free by upgrading from trial account and  not get 30 free days.  You either pay for the game or the 1st month, totally up to you, but you never pay for both.