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Nowhere in that blog entry did it mention the amnesty date. The last I heard was in a town hall meeting when Lee said that amnesty would happen after all the cities were merged.
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Ditto. Parizad said the same thing in the Town Hall in my presence....that amnesty would occur after all the cities were merged. However I predicted that this wouldn't happen until April 15th at least, so it does not surprise me that it is the 30th at all.
Something for clarification though....does this mean that only premium accounts will get amnesty? The e-mail that was sent out led people to believe that if they just reactivated their accounts, even for free that they would receive amnesty if they did so by the deadline. On this information, my husband reactivated his account as a free account. Does this now mean that we need to get his account to premium also in order for him to receive amnesty?
ETA: To clear up my own misconception and apparently the OP's as well, here is the blog post in full for the benefit of those who get white pages when clicking on the RSS blog feeds on the main page right:
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To be considered an EA-Land Founder you must have had an active paying account (subscription or game time card) after July 1, 2007 and before April 30, 2008.
To be considered an EA-Land Explorer you must have active account of any kind between July 1, 2007 and before April 30, 2008
What is EA-Land Founder?
An EA-Land Founder is a specific account type, with additional privileges, that is available only until the deadline. After the deadline, there will be three (3) account types: Basic, Premium, and EA-Land Founder; all new accounts after the deadline will be Basic or Premium. The account types have increasing entitlements from Basic to Premium to EA-Land Founder. For example:
Number of Avatars in EA-Land / Test Center 3
Basic: 1 / 1
Premium: 3 / 2
Founder: 8 / 6
Anniversary Gifts Per Account in EA-Land / Test Center 3
Basic: 0 / 0
Premium: 2 / 1
Founder: 3 / 1
What is an EA-Land Explorer?
An EA-Land Explorer is any player account which was active between July 1, 2007 and April 30, 2008. This is the full set of folks that have helped us evolve EA-Land in these early stages.
What if I am already a TSO Founder?
EA-Land Founder and EA-Land Explorer are completely independent of TSO Founder status and do not effect TSO Founder status. Also, the fact that an account is a TSO Founder does not mean the account is an EA-Land Founder (or Explorer). To be an EA-Land Founder you must have an active subscription or game time card after July 1, 2007 and before May 1, 2008.
Can I be a Founder and Explorer?
Yep. All Founders are automatically Explorers as well.
Regards,
Greg
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This tells me that it has nothign to do with amnesty and locks. This is creating a 3rd type of account, whereas now we only have Premium and Free. Founder accounts will have everything that Premium accounts now have, and anybody who does not have a premium account before April 30th will receive a different set of 'perks' (less avatars than founder but more than free according to the blog). This means if you already have a premium account, you don't need to do anything, it will automatically convert to founder, HOWEVER if you have a free account now, and you want the perks that premium founders *now* get, you have to make your account premium BEFORE APRIL 30TH or if you do it after that you will not receive the same perks.
Hope that helps people understand more, and I am thrilled that they are doing this to make 'founder status' actually mean more than simply having the flag.....which means a great deal to alot of us who were TSO founders, however it didn't really give us any 'extras' in gameplay. Being an EA Land founder will! \o/