Vanguard

Greetings Heroes!

This weekend, it’s time to spring into action with an extra boost. That’s right! We’re running a Bonus Experience Weekend to help celebrate the season! The bonus will be applied to all experience – Crafting, Adventuring, and Diplomacy. The bonus experience starts on Friday, April 6, 2012 at 1:30 PM PDT* and will end on Monday, April 9, 2012 at 7:00 AM PDT*.

Happy and safe adventuring!

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Greetings Telonians!

Community Manager Zatozia will be hosting a Meet and Greet on Friday, March 30th, 2012, at 6:00 p.m. PDT* (San Diego time) on the Telon server.

When: Friday, March 30th, 2012 from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. PDT* (San Diego time)Server: TelonLocation: Ahgram, near the docks and the Gift-o-Matic 5000

Come meet Zatozia and chat about your most recent epic adventures.

See you at the party!

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With the success of Sony Online Entertainment's F2P move for most of its stable of MMOs, it will come as no surprise that Vanguard: Saga of Heroes will be hitting the F2P market this summer. In addition, the producer's letter indicates that the development team is being buffed up and that several familiar faces will be rejoining the team.

While we plan to continue growing the team over the next few months, I wanted to briefly introduce a few of our team leads, including Salim "Silius" Grant (Creative Director), Todd "Hobart" Schmidt (Technical Director) and me, Andy Sites (Director of Development).  Fortunately, I am the only noob to the world of Vanguard, although having been part of the original EverQuest, EverQuest II, Free Realms, and Clone Wars Adventures teams, I've spent most of my career working on MMOs.

Read the full post on the Vanguard: Saga of Heroes site.

We've got some exciting changes in store for Vanguard!

Since many, if not all of you reading this letter are the most die-hard of Vanguard players, let me start off by saying thank you for your unwavering support of the game!  Let's talk about the great things we have planned over the next few months…

At SOE, giving players choices is the theme of how we're moving forward as a company. We see free-to-play (or as we refer to it, Free to Play. Your Way.) as a big part of our future and we like the flexibility it offers players. Therefore, I'm happy to announce Vanguard will be the next in line of our AAA games to make this transition.  Since we've literally just begun on the work, I'm not ready to go into much detail.  However, I will say that you can expect something similar to EverQuest®, EverQuest® II and DC Universe™ Online when we roll-out our free-to-play offering this summer.  Once we have more information to share, you'll be the first to know.

Now for the part I'm most excited about, let's talk about the great team of developers we've assembled.  To begin (and I realize I'm stating the obvious) More >

We've got some exciting changes in store for Vanguard!

Since many, if not all of you reading this letter are the most die-hard of Vanguard players, let me start off by saying thank you for your unwavering support of the game!  Let's talk about the great things we have planned over the next few months…

At SOE, giving players choices is the theme of how we're moving forward as a company. We see free-to-play (or as we refer to it, Free to Play. Your Way.) as a big part of our future and we like the flexibility it offers players. Therefore, I'm happy to announce Vanguard will be the next in line of our AAA games to make this transition.  Since we've literally just begun on the work, I'm not ready to go into much detail.  However, I will say that you can expect something similar to EverQuest®, EverQuest® II and DC Universe™ Online when we roll-out our free-to-play offering this summer.  Once we have more information to share, you'll be the first to know.

Now for the part I'm most excited about, let's talk about the great team of developers we've assembled.  To begin (and I realize I'm stating the obvious) More >