[LOTRO] Free to Play goes live in 1 week…
As mentioned here Lord of the Rings Online goes “Free to Play” next week. Should the game interest you, we are showing some signs of life once again in Middle Earth, so come along and join us for fun times in that most seminal of fantasy worlds.
Goodbye GOA, Hello Mythic!
Recently, BiowareMythic the creators of WAR took over operations of the European servers from the undiluted failure that was GOA. As a consequence of this and subsequent server moves and the administrative transition, they gave every account ever some free time.
This inspired some of us to play again, and we have found a new love for WAR and for the RVR you can exeprience there. This love is so great money has been given to Mythic and we are recruiting for Hands of Justice on Karak Azgal once again!
So look us up in game by keeping an eye out for our recruitment adverts, or drop by our forums and make yourselves known.
Steam Perils of Summer Sale
Steam have a MASSIVE sale on for the next 10 days, with over 400 games on sale and nearly 50 different packages also going VERY cheap on that platform.
So guys, break out the wallets and get buying right here!
And remember to join our Steam group too!
Hulkageddon III.
Its that time of year again. Helicity Boson has organised another Hulkageddon. This is the third one in as many years. Hulkageddon is a time when sensible miners hide, while pvpers roam the space lanes looking for other more unfortunate mining vessels to explode and their pilots to pod.
Check out Helicity’s site here.
Ma’adim Logistics will NOT be taking part due to overriding alliance policies – which Mangala Solaris already broke by doing this – relating to ganking in high security space. However, I am positive many of our pilots will take part with un-corped alts and help create miner tears across the universe. Will we match Baroness Thatcher for miner tears? Or will they finally fight back?
Irregardless of the outcome, space is going to even more fun in the coming weeks!
HoJ returns to Azeroth
Recently a handful of us from this community have had a hankering to return to Azeroth, and so we did. A few of us setup on the server where the Hands of Justice originally had its home, the Aszune server in the European Region.
Then we set up the guild once again! What a way to celebrate this community’s 5th birthday!
So if you play World of Warcraft and want to join us in yet another guild in yet another game, then pop by our forums and say hi. I promise you it will be fun!
EVE Online: Tyrannis Expansion
The latest EVE Online expansion has just been released. Here is the trailer for it:
Features include Planetary Interaction, EVEGate and numerous fixes and improvements to the game, as well as the usual amount of broken things – its CCP’s trademark.
Lord of the Rings Online goes Free to Play!
Lotro is going free to play:
Free-to-Play opens up more choices and options so you can play your way. When LOTRO Free-to-Play is available, you can download the game for free and start playing without a subscription or even a credit card.
Anyone can join the game for free as a Free player when LOTRO Free-to-Play is available. You will automatically be upgraded from Free player to Premium player status with your first purchase of Points in the LOTRO Store. And for a monthly fee, LOTRO’s VIP program offers the best value and the most options for players who like the convenience of having unlimited access to all of LOTRO’s game content and features. If you are already a subscriber, just maintain your active subscription to be automatically upgraded to VIP!
See this link for more and discuss it over on the HoJ forums here.
MAADI Joins Beyond-Control
Ma’adim Logistics has recently joined a brand new alliance in EVE. Getting in on the ground floor of such an enterprise is something we wanted for a long time, and we look forward to the challenges this will offer us going forward!!
We are recruiting!
Do you play several massively multiplayer games at once? Does that include any of these:
- Champions Online?
- EVE Online?
- Lord of the Rings Online?
- Warhammer: Age of Reckoning?
If so and you can say that you:
- Like to try out new MMOs with an established community?
- Like keeping an eye on a wide variety of PC games, and MMOs in particular?
- Like meta conversations about what different games can offer?
Then join Hands of Justice: we can’t settle on a damned game either.
[WAR]Endless WAR
Mythic/EA & GOA have introduced an Endless Trial for Warhammer: Age of Reckoning. You basically get locked into Tier 1, but that is the best part of this now dying game.
Check this forum section for more information and come and join the fun!
Supreme Justice needs YOU!
This City needs Justice! Supreme Justice!
Millenium City. The city of the future. But despite the advances that mankind has made, injustice still runs rampant, even in this fair city.
But fear not, fair citizens, for Justice has arrived in Millenium City. Supreme Justice!
Supreme Justice is a (mostly) UK based Super Group, and the official Super Group of the Hands of Justice Online Gaming Community. HoJ has had a major presence in most MMO’s in recent memory, starting in vanilla WoW, through to Lotro, WAR, EvE and now Champions Online.
Made up of mature, friendly, casual gamers, HoJ has always been about fun first, gaming second. So, if you like the sound of having a laugh with decent folks, in a casual, friendly environment, then give us a shout.
If you’d like to know more, contact:
@Wraithwing
@Toxicchilli
@Mangala
@Macrune
@Yyan
Or, drop by our forums.
Oh, and it helps if you like Spandex.
Fanfest Videos
So Fanfest is over and done for another year. 3 Video’s that show off this year are here:
HTFU!
Dominion Keynote:
Dust & CCP Keynote:
Discuss Dominion here & Dust here on the forums. My fanfest pictures will be up in our gallery this week!
CCP Unveil DUST 514
CCP’s Hilmar recently gave the Keynote speech at GDC in Leipzig, and as a part of this he unveiled DUST 514, an MMP-FPS set in the EVE Universe that will tie in to the bitter struggles for sovereignty that happen on a daily basis there! Talk about this on our forums here and read the article here.
Imagine..
… there’s no Kenny:
This is a video related to the story I have previously posted about the fall of the Band of Brothers alliance due to a pissed off and bored director. Basically, Kenzoku (The successor alliance to BoB), is about to lose its final few systems, effectively ending its – and Sir Molle’s – reign as one of the most powerful entities in New Eden, and this song was created as a result.
[EVE Online] Ebank Director Runs off with 200Billion Isk
Yet another reason as to why I love EVE so damn much!
I’ll cut right to the chase;
Ricdic, Ricdics and EBANK Ricdic characters have been banned by CCP. We are in the process of emailing our customers with this information for those who have emails in our database. We’re switching over to another deposit character and I’ll confirm that when it’s finished. You may have also noticed we are still handling withdraws….we intend to keep doing so.
Yesterday was a busy day. Here’s what we know for certain…Ricdic has scammed and engaged in RMT. He stole roughly 200 Billion of our 2.3 Trillion in deposits (8.6%). We are in the process of getting a new deposit character in place and hope to have this completed by tonight. He might have gotten away with more but Amarr Citizen 155 and Athre were able to prevent that. Please give them your thanks; I know I do.
Short term strategy; EBANK is processing withdraws and shrinking…we expect this will happen organically but if we need to nudge it along we will.
Long term strategy; still under debate. We have a few options on the table and are debating the best way forward from here. If we need to raise additional capital (which we don’t believe we have to do right now) then we have a few options we’ll pursue.
Bottom line;
-EBANK Ricdic has been banned
-EBANK Ricdic is no longer the deposit character for EBANK
-EBANK Athre is the Interm CEO
-EBANK is processing withdraws
-EBANK is solvent and will take additional steps if capital infusions are required
-EBANK will post again on long term strategy once we finalize it
I hope that addresses some of the concerns and I also hope to post more later and provide updates. I appreciate the support some of our customers have expressed.
Read more in the EVEO Thread. Suffice to say, the guy deserves any punishment he recieves from CCP for the RMT, but not for the scam itself, so artully was it done over the years he has obviously be planning this!
The Hands of Justice community reaches 4 years old!!
This community and I have now been “connected” for a little over 4 years.
All started when I became GM of the old HoJ guild back on Aszune in World of Warcraft – a game which I started on 30th April 2005 and about 5 days after I found myself leading a two man guild with my brother who had been tricked into joining it by its last power using member…
The rest is history; discuss the past, present and future here!
EVE Online is 6!!!
EVE Online celebrates its 6th year of existence today–May 6th.
A 6 year persistant history. A living history where truly brilliant strategies have unfolded. Truly terrible betrayals unveiled. We are excited to see what will happen next.
This year has been very successful for EVE Online, thanks in large part to the Apocrypha expansion and a return to retail. We started out the year with around 244,000 subscribers and in five short months we’ve had a 22% growth in subscribers. In the past couple days we surpassed the impressive milestone of 300,000 active subscribers.
We’ve broken our peak concurrent user record 3 times this year alone, standing now at an impressive 53,850 in the same universe. That is exponential growth. We couldn’t think of a better birthday present than having more people playing EVE Online than ever before. It is another sweet reminder of EVE’s boundless potential.
As always, we encourage you to bring your friends, family and even enemies to New Eden. Cheers to that.
