well done devs! a smart move indeed

True Pros make a Podcast to influence the Devs minds, 
The rest of you guys are Hacks

PS. I got my Highways & stopped playing b4 they came in & have never used them! ...... Irony much ?

I did not recieve said newsletter. Can devs pls post on front page?
Thx

I did not get the newsletter. And I am subscribed.

Yeh it's just the backdrop of the email page is white, so it is showing light grey type on white.  I'm nitpicking, I know it It's great that you guys decided on the newsletter.

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I play MMOs. I need a signature which is deep, thought provoking, and devours bandwidth with the voracity of rabid weasels. It is also, by nature, vaguely sad with a tinge of my obvious internal, unfathomable loneliness. Like this,   , but at 1.3megs packed into 2 by 6 inches. ANIMATED.

so, if you stop 'paying to play' you don't get a newsletter, which I did not. Did you not wan't players to return because you have some nice 'new stuff' to play with?

I only returned because you gave me some free time, and you actually sent me an email invite, then, I found out you have some nice new things to do.

seems an opportunity wasted

I think what people are trying to say is, when you're doing a targeted "come resub please!" move like this you should bypass the whole debate "did person X click or unclick to receive newsletter" and just notify everyone that they have 15 free days to try out the game again.

As things are now, you are only really getting potential resubs from people who keep track of the game (small minority). Most MMO players try it, see if they like it, then move on and forget about it.

EDIT:

Another interesting point, when you were adding 15 days to accounts the last few times, you added them to subscribed accounts too. This time however, only unsubbed and trial accounts got it?

That's what the newsletter says, you could have sneakily included game-shiny-promo material + "hai guys u got 15 days free plx come try!" message. Marketing and all that ya know.

Oh yes you're clear, I'm just commenting that from a marketing perspective you could have done "2 for 1" and simply sent the newsletter (which has all the up-to-date OMG UPCOMING SHINY HYPE IT) to everyone with a big shiny "BREAKING NEWS U HAS 15 DAYS FREE TIME!" sign.

Devs need to release more random plants. Only thing I've seen in recent memory that successfully distracted CIR forum whining. (Trigalv excluded)