Shattered Crystal Product News

Shattered Crystal August Sweepstakes

2011-08-12T10:18:00.000-07:00

August is hot hot hot and so are the 2 Prizes that you can win in the Shattered Crystal August Sweepstakes!

ShatteredCrystal is giving away:

One winner will receive the brand-new EvE Survival Pack !
One winner will receive 1 year subscription to EON - the official EvE Online Magazine.

To enter:

Go to ShatteredCrystal.com
Add this free item to your Shopping cart and proceed to checkout.

No purchase necessary to enter!

Sweepstakes will end August 31st 2011 !

Rules and Conditions for the Shattered Crystal August Sweepstakes can be found at the bottom of the product description!

Rise of Immortals Closed Beta Key Give Away !

2011-05-13T15:06:00.000-07:00

Rise of Immortals Closed Beta Key Give Away !

Are you bored with what your currently playing? Need something new?

ShatteredCrystal.com has teamed up with Petroglyph Games to bring you free closed beta codes for their MOBA game Rise of Immortals.

Rise of Immortals. is an online, free-to-play PC game that expands on the hit Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) genre with new, innovative features designed to appeal to both core and casual players.Players in the closed beta will gain access to the Lazerus Metal God skin. This skin will only ever be available to the original closed beta testers.

Get your free Rise of Immortals Beta Code At ShatteredCrystal.com

New Feature: "Support Your Corp"

2011-03-15T16:44:00.000-07:00

Support Your Corp. , is a new feature that is currently in Beta Testing on ShatteredCrystal.com.

As Gamers, we are always looking for ideas to support the various gaming communities out there."Support Your Corp." will allow you to do just that.

While "Support Your Corp" was originally designed for Eve Online, this feature will be implemented for all games supported by ShatteredCrystal.com.

Support Your Corp allows for corp members to give their corp financial support. The way this works is as a corp leader your corp members support you every time they purchase their ETC through Shattered Crystal.

All you have to do is go and sign up at Shattered Crystal to be an affiliate. Then got to your affiliate account and click on the organizations tab and submit your corporation, Eve fan site or Eve YouTube channel. List your information so that when customers make a purchase of Eve game time codes from Shattered Crystal, they are presented with a link.

This link takes them to a page that allows them to select where they would like the money credited. You may choose to do whatever you want with your earnings. When the corp receives this credit, they may purchase EVE time codes with the credit and or receive a payment to cover costs of hosting of your website, production, etc. You will know you are getting credit as we send you an email every time someone chooses your corp to credit.

But Wait There's More!

As an affiliate you are given a link to refer corp members to Shattered Crystal. If they come through the link (post it on your site, put in forum posts, email to your corp members, etc) you are given even larger credit per purchase.

If you have any questions, email affiliatemanager@shatteredcrystal.com. We will be happy to answer any questions.

Just sign up right now, it is easy and quick to do = )

Earn Cash From Your Website Or Blog With ShatteredCrystal.com

2010-11-04T13:24:00.000-07:00

Everyone knows that we live in hard times that are on the verge of getting harder with unemployment rates still on the rise. Jobs and Money are hard to come by these days.

One of the simplest ways to earn additional income is by turning your favorite hobby into a part-time job. If you have a Fansite or blog that is gaming related you already have all the tools you need to start earning extra money. There is really no additional work involved and you don’t have to buy anything either to do it. Everyone can do this.

Check out this Video with one of our Affiliates Shane Smart. He does a fantastic job explaining how this works for you !

Can it get any easier than that? We even provide the banners for you to use…….

Follow this Link To Join Our Affiliate Program and Start Earning Money Today !

Don't get hacked by phish emails or phishing websites.

2009-12-08T07:42:00.000-08:00

We have seen over the past few months a high number of attempted purchases from us that were from hacked PayPal accounts and stolen credit cards. I believe prevention is the best solution for stuff like this. So I wanted to share with you a tool we use here in our offices and one I use personally that keeps us from making stupid mistakes with phishing sites.

The tool is called RoboForm. The program is free for up to 10 passwords. I personally have over 500 passwords so I have the paid version. The paid version is only $30 and is well worth it.

We use it not only to keep track of all of our passwords. But it allows us to also use very complex passwords that would be hell to type in every time.

The best feature though is that it will check the site you are at to see if it is the real site. It will not offer you any passwords for the site if it knows you are at the wrong place. I myself am really on top of security. This application however has pointed out to me a few times that I was not at the real site.

I suggest trying it out. It's free is you use it for 10 or less passwords.

RoboForm site.

Shattered Crystal / Wallie Partnership

2009-10-03T09:37:00.000-07:00

Shattered Crystal is proud to announce today the addition of Wallie cards to it's lineup. Wallie cards are currently sold at retail locations in 14 European countries. Shattered Crystal is now making these Wallie prepaid card codes available online. Wallie supports well over 100 games. An example of some of the games is Runescape, Maple Story, Habbo, WarRock and many more.

Here is something we are really excited about! For those of you that have been purchasing codes from us that were above the retail price. This partnership fixes this and brings most of those items down to the normal retail price.

We have the codes available in denominations of $5 to $100 each. You can find them located here: Wallie Card Codes

EVE Online contest winners

2008-12-18T13:14:00.000-08:00

All of our EVE Online customers were invited to give us feedback and be entered to win a EVE 60 day game code. I want to thank all of you who replied with answers to the questions. Something happened with the email we sent out that was totally unexpected. I had hoped that 10 to 20 people would reply. But Holy Cow! 1650 people replied!

From all of the replies there are some themes of what is needed and wanted by the EVE community. We are still going through all of the data. We will be taking the top 10 most requested items and will do the items that are the easiest to get done that will have the most impact for you. We'll then take the harder items to accomplish and begin work on those. We have already started work on one of the sites and it should be ready to announce within the next 2 to 4 weeks.

I'll be sure to email everyone and post here once the first site is up.

I have asked the winners if we can public more than just some basic information about them. Here is some basic details about each of the winners. If they reply back to me with more information I'll update this.

** Phil Stilber of Sylacauga Alabama USA, frozenphil in game from Goonfleet
** Zackary of Pagosa Springs Colorado USA
** Paul of West Yorkshire United Kingdom
** Robert of Melbourne Victoria Austrailia Eve Name: Bobby Byrde Corp: [ANZA] Alliance: [SCA]
** Andries van der Meulen of Amersfoort Netherlands. Characters: Vassago Qua'ieried (Male Gallente Gallente) Corp: Dark Influence [DARN] and Vassago Telrunya (Male Caldari Achura) Corp: Dark Influence [DARN]

Thanks again to everyone who participated. This was so successful we will do more of these in the future!

World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King

2008-11-08T06:46:00.000-08:00

World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King comes out on the 13th of November. That is this next Thursday. We will have the codes available at Shattered Crystal at Midnight Eastern Time. We have confirmed that we will have the product before the release date so we will have them available in the store.

We will be sending the codes only with these. If you were in the beta then you already have the software. If you do not have the software you will either need to figure out a way to get it or you should not purchase one of our codes if you can not get the software. You should instead purchase a retail copy from your local video game store.

We also have the WoW Battlechest available if you are looking to start a brand new account.

Also of note. You can go to the WoW WotLK item on our store and sign up for an email alert that will go out as soon as the item has been stocked. It's easy to do and our system will send out the emails within a few minutes of us making the codes available.

One last word. We do expect to sell out on release day. We got a hell of a lot of copies but we already know that we have more people wanting them than what we were able to get. So don't wait to get yours as they will go quickly. :)

CONCORD 30 Day Pilot License for EvE Online

2008-11-04T06:34:00.000-08:00

CCP has heard the cry of it's players about the removal of the 30 day ETC (EvE Time Code). We had the opportunity to talk with CCP about this new ability to split EvE time codes and sell them or give them to other players. We discuss all of this in the video. Below is a quote from their site.

ETC secure transfers made easier, more accessible and ingame

We‘ve had the secure transfer mechanism for almost 2 years now. Players have been able to exchange their EVE Gametime Codes (ETC) to other players for ISK through the account management pages and now more than 30 thousand players utilizing it on a regular basis.

We felt it was time to move forward with it--do another iteration to make it much easier and accessible exchange ISK for game time. The current situation has a series of flaws with it which we hope to address, while at the same time opening up totally new ground for current and potential EVE players.

With this new approach, you can take your run of the mill ETC code and enter it in-game through the escape menu, converting it into two in-game items called “CONCORD 30 Day Pilot License”. You can then put them directly on to the market or into a contract! This means:

Benefit to you as a player

Lower barrier of entry for exchanging ETCs. Everybody can do it easily in-game
ETCs now use a transparent and efficient market, our very own EVE market
Fights price fixing--one of the single most complained about issues with the current secure exchange
Opens up for a larger supply, lowering the ISK exchange rate in the long run as anyone can exchange their ETCs more easily
Enables you to create corporate Contracts for your members in exchange for Pilot Licenses
Empowers you to recruit new players on trial into your corporations with Pilot Licenses
Allows you to give someone a “free beer” (I like this part)
Cramps down on RMTs (Real Money Traders) style with a kill and a smile
It‘s pure awesome

Benefits to EVE and CCP

Cramps down on RMTs style with a kill and a smile
More and better options for you means more of you and your friends are able to play EVE. That means more subscriptions for EVE, meaning more yardwarre and larger EVE expansions
Provides a 30-day option while addressing our internal issues with the old 30-day ETCs
Has the potential to increase monetary velocity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_Velocity)

But we are aware of the drawbacks here, such as:

A larger supply and demand could also increase prices
Potential immersion breaker, we’re sure you can look past it
For safety reasons, the Pilot License can‘t leave a station, so you have to create the location you want to exchange it at
The Pilot License can‘t enter any form of container
It‘s pure evil

CONCORD 30 Day Pilot License

The 30-day renewable license pioneered by CONCORD is an alternative to its pod pilot contract license. Pilots on this new renewal scheme can purchase license extensions for ISK and thereby forgo the need for a contract altogether.

This item extends your gametime by 30 days when activated. It cannot leave stations but can be traded on the market and through contracts, except via courier.

You might also wonder why it‘s a 30-day license, given our recent move to 60-day ETCs. That‘s quite simple. We needed a single unit which easily mapped to most of our ETCs. While this leaves out the 50 and 100 day ETCs, the rest divide quite nicely with the time-length of the pilot’s license.

We are going to try this out in the next couple of months and see what the results are. You should see this in Quantum Rise or shortly following it. I personally think that it will enable a lot of people to continue to play EVE despite the current world economy and enable others, that could never pay 15 USD in foreign currency but have time to play, to start playing EVE. Like this one time, in Iceland camp, it‘s almost impossible to get foreign currency. 15 USD would buy me a case of beer whereas previously it would get my voracious liver only one.

Giving players a more robust system to exchange game-time for ISK is something we also deem necessary as a result of abuse, exploitation, fraud and hard core companies trying to sell you ISK directly. In the end, this only hurts you the customer and therefore the universe of EVE.

We must continue to battle this and it‘s time for a new strategy. We see what the secure trade of ETCs between players did and we want to investigate ways of making that easier by enable all players to trade amongst themselves directly. If the key to battling RMT is to allow players to casually and securely exchange gametime for ISK, thereby neutralizing RMT companies as a necessary supply, then that is an acceptable, necessary evil.

We ask you, “don‘t hate, participate” in this endeavour.

Source

RuneScape Membership Cards

2008-10-30T14:24:00.000-07:00

We've added a new category for RuneScape. Specifically the items added are RuneScape Membership cards. They come in 30 and 90 days. For those who do not know. RuneScape actually has more players that World of Warcraft does. It's a pretty amazing game.

So if you need the membership cards we now have them available.

G1 Credits now at lower prices

2008-10-27T09:56:00.000-07:00

We have been working to get the prices down on our G1 Credits we sell for Gamersfirst. We have made the first of two steps in this. All G1 Credits that are 1600 and above are now at normal retail price.

We did previously have a premium added on top making them higher than retail price. We have made adjustments allowing us to lower the price.

Personally I hate selling items at above retail. But in some situations it's required as there is not enough profit in them to cover the costs of selling the items. Our second phase for this will be to get the items that are 1200 credits and below down as well. I'll make another announcement once that happens.

Knight Online added to available games

2008-10-27T08:55:00.001-07:00

I'm pleased to say we have started adding Gamersfirst (G1) games. We've added a category for Knight Online and then we also added a category that will cover all of their games for G1 Credits.

We are currently building categories for the other Gamersfirst games and will make announcements when they are fully available.

I also want to add one more item here. the most common question we have been getting lately is how to redeem the credits. Here are the quick steps.

1. Go to the gamersfirst website and log into your account, if you do not have an account, make one and link it to your K2 game account.
2. Click on “Refill” (the orange button near the right hand edge of the screen)
3. Find the correct G1 Credit amount, and click “refill”
4. Choose ESN, enter your code, and enjoy your G1 Credits!

Aeonsoft's Fly For Fun (Flyff)

2008-10-08T13:26:00.000-07:00

Shattered Crystal now stocks gPotato's, the virtual currency used in an assortment of free mmos published by Gala-Net. Flyff is one of those games and its exactly how it sounds, you fly for fun. This is apparently a hook for this game as most/all transportation can be done by simply flying around on a broomstick or hover board. Most 3d mmo's offer some form of flight transportation but the player is rarely in control of these sequences. Flyff incorporates the aerial aspect right into its combat system, where any battle can evolve from one-on-one ground battles into mid-air conflicts involving multiple pc's (player characters).

In order to really dig into a game like this you need to make a different sort of investment. Most mmo's reward you for your time, time = reward, everyone is on the same level and the more you play the more powerful you will get. Free mmo's are a bit different in that you are rewarded for purchasing exclusive items with real life cash, money = reward, everyone is on the same level until someone pwns you, then you spend your rent money just so you can upgrade that weapon and return the pwn.

I would say that both options have their frustrations and i can make up an excuse for hating both systems; "ur only better cuz u play all day and night!" or "ur only better cuz you spend your grocery money on swordz!". Either way you cut it, Fly for Fun is actually fun, the ability to soar really minimizes some of the monotony of getting from point A to point B.

Anyone looking for a casual free 3d mmo, check out Flyff's Official Site.

Already have an account and love it? Why not up your game? Buy gPotato's from Shattered Crystal!

gPotato's Added to Shattered Crystal

2008-10-08T11:41:00.000-07:00

We recently got our hands on some gPotato point cards and just added a bunch of new items to Shattered Crystal. A lot of people are kinda confused at what a gPotato is, as the phrase is used in multiple ways. Basically, gPotato is a gaming portal that supports about 5-6 free to play mmorpgs and also a few flash games. Most of their titles are your typical fantasy mmo (rappelz, flyff, corum online) but they do have some stranger, more out of place titles including a racing and a golfing game.

In addition to being a gaming portal, gPotatos are also the in-game currency for these games. As with most free mmorpgs, the point is to get the user hooked with limited content, then offer to expand the experience via microtransactions. These gPotato's can be used to purchase a variety of things including premium packages, stat boosting items, special armor and weapon sets, and some pretty cool aesthetic items.

You can check out the different Free-to-Play games on their Official Site. If your already hooked on one (or all) of their games, you can buy some gPotato's from Shattered Crystal and have them delivered instantly to your email.

Second Post!.....oh wait.

2008-01-29T14:59:00.000-08:00

I guess if i don't get an award for first post i definitely wont get one for second, oh well, you win the imaginary award on this one Markee, next time though, i will have vengeance!

My name is Garrett and I have been an employee of Shattered Crystal for some time now, almost two years. I am primarily the affiliate manager/marketing guy but, when needed, I am the one who researches and creates new items within our store.

With that said, its safe to say that i have a lot of exposure to up-and-coming mmo's, whether i would like to or not. Some of your might say "did he just complain about having to surf the internet and read about games?!?!". Well trust me, its not as enjoyable as it sounds. Case in point: StarDoll, not exactly my first choice for a research project but alas, it must be done, because for every person like me who cringes at the idea of a paperdoll-dressup-mmo, there must be those who can't hold in their excitement when presented with a cornucopia of digital celebs with matching outfits and accessories.....

I'm getting sidetracked, so basically I will be posting here as new items are added to Shattered Crystal. sharing various information i have gathered through research and opinions i have formed via that research.

-G

First post!

2008-01-17T07:09:00.000-08:00

I always think it's crazy when we create new forums at one of our sites and almost right away we get someone making a post of "First Post!". It's like they win an award for being the first. I find it to be very humorous.

So in the spirit of the first post we won't win any awards. But we can shoot for good quality information here. This blog allows us to talk about some of the new products we are adding to www.ShatteredCrystal.com. We currently have game codes and cards for over 52 games. It's really incredible considering that up until a few years ago we focused on just one game. Ultima Online.

Some of you may know me from UO. I lead a group of brokers in the game providing safe buying, selling and trading services for players of the game. Scamming was rampant back then like it is today and we worked hard as a group to do transactions without anyone being taken. I ended up founding several companies in the video game entertainment industry. Some of them flopped and several of them are up and running right now with good success.

This blog will be very informal. We just want to announce new products and have a central location where people can give us feedback on the things we are doing here. My staff or I will make updates from time to time.

If you are in the industry and would like to hook up with me feel free to link up to me at LinkedIn or contact me directly at marcus@trustwho.com.

Marcus Eikenberry
Managing member, Shattered Crystal LLC
www.shatteredcrystal.com