Sony Online Entertainment Games Announcement

Sony Online Entertainment has made the following announcement to all
subscribers and new interested people:

"Hello All,

It's been a few months in the making but finally... it is my great
pleasure to make the following announcement:

Starting June 26th, the Station Pass games, Infantry, Cosmic Rift, and
Tanarus, will be completely free. Yes, 100% (no money needed, no small
print, no exceptions, etc) free!

In order to make this transition, as of May 26th, billing will be
turned off to prevent anyone else from subscribing and to allow
everyone's paid time to be completed. Since some accounts will expire
before the end of the month and before the games are set to free,
guest accounts will have to be used for that transitional period. My
apologies for any inconvenience this transitional period may cause,
but there's no way around it, and well, I think some may say the end
result makes it worth it.

Additionally, as some of you may have already guessed from my not
overly cryptic posts, we're busy at work documenting the Infantry &
Cosmic Rift map editors which we will make publicly available soon
after we make the switch to free.

I trust once the games are set to free, and the Infantry & CR editors
are available, we will see a good inflow of maps designed by you guys,
which takes us to the next task on my list; Player Content Team. We
will set up a team to help funnel / implement / appraise the many maps
I am sure we will get. More than anything, I want to make sure this
process is transparent to the rest of the community, mainly to prevent
any preferential treatment, and because I fully believe that if you
took the time to make a map, it should have a fair shot of at least
being play tested. There's obviously quite a bit to spec out and
define before the PCT happens, but I wanted to bring it up now since I
knew it was probably going to be the #1 question right after reading
the big announcement above.

In Tanarus' case, since there's no guest access, we may have an
extended 'free weekend' a week or so prior to the official change to
free to try to alleviate any down time for those who end their billing
cycle earlier than the end of the month.

So alas, I hope you enjoy the last of your P2P days, and I hope
everyone is as excited about the news as I am.

Cheers!"

-Jose Araiza / SPD_G