It may sound clichéd, but wow, time really flies! It’s hard to believe that it has already been a full year since our massive 256-person PlayStation 3-exclusive shooter, MAG, was released all over the globe. To celebrate our one-year birthday, we’re unveiling a handful of promotions as a thank you to our fans throughout the week.
First up, starting Wednesday, January 26 at 12am Pacific Time, we’re changing all in-game queue and “Happy Hour” bonuses to 256% until Sunday, January 30 at 11:59pm. If you’ve been meaning to level up to grab our various “level 60″ trophies, our promotional time period is a great time to go for it!
Speaking of January 26, all day from 10am-5pm Pacific Time, members of the Zipper Interactive QA team (our best players!) will be online and playing MAG throughout the day. If you’ve never participated in our “Play MAG with Zipper” events, they’re great fun and offer you the perfect opportunity to show us your skills.
Our third and final promotion is a special “Faction Neutral” switch for the Domination and Acquisition modes. For the first time ever in MAG “Live,” our two biggest game types will switch from being PMC-specific to being open for defense by any of our three factions. Like our 256% XP bonus, this mode switch will be in operation from January 26 at 12am Pacific to January 30 at 11:59pm.
But this isn’t all we’re doing to wish MAG a happy birthday. We’ll also be posting some additional posts throughout the week, including a breakdown of MAG statistics and numbers on Thursday and a special “Five Things You Never Knew About MAG” article on Friday morning. It should be fun.
As always, everyone here at Zipper Interactive wants you to know how much we appreciate all the support and feedback you have given us over the last year and we hope you’ve enjoyed playing the game as much as we’ve enjoyed making and improving it. Thank you very much!
25 CommentsAdd Yours
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Posted on 25 January, 2011 at 2:03 pm by Roxas598
I know how you can celebrate
Put the full game back to 19.99 on the store ¬_¬
Gone for 2 weeks and the store team put it back up at 5 quid more <.<
I was waiting for it to go back on the store to buy it because 19.99 was a respectable price but for 24.99 computer says no
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Posted on 25 January, 2011 at 2:08 pm by deltaman-3
wow has it really been a year…..happy birthday MAG
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Posted on 25 January, 2011 at 2:16 pm by infoxicated
Haven’t played in months now, but this is a great excuse to give MAG one last tour of duty before I trade it for Killzone 3.
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Posted on 25 January, 2011 at 2:31 pm by andycass
roxas you can pick the game up for £15 new and iv’e seen it second hand at a tenner £19.99 is still too much for this game on psn.
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Posted on 25 January, 2011 at 2:31 pm by flamingcarrot
I have been getting back into MAG over the last couple of weeks, having played since launch (and fighting vs Zipper at the game launch in London), then having had a long hiatus.
It has been great to see that there is still a very active community, with games being easy to find. The maturing community also seems to be much more objective driven than it was at launch, which makes for some interesting, tactical games.
I would like to thank you for the robust lobby system that you have put in place – my online buddies and I were in the same group for about two hours last night, with no-one being kicked and voice comms working perfectly throughout. A few other FPS developers could learn from that.
Happy Birthday anyway guys. Looking forward to seeing your work on SOCOM next.
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Posted on 25 January, 2011 at 2:36 pm by CampusV
this is my first time comment on the ps eu blog. i was gonna buy Mag but since it has 256 players online i was not sure want spend of broadband it will need. could anyone let me known as i would like to buy it. is there move support for MAG.
Posted on 25 January, 2011 at 2:41 pm by James Gallagher
Welcome to the blog! Don’t worry too much about the bandwith – even though it supports more players, it doesn’t need any more internet juice than your normal multiplayer games.
Posted on 25 January, 2011 at 2:57 pm by James Gallagher
And yes, MAG does support Move.
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Posted on 25 January, 2011 at 2:51 pm by makingdamage
I´m looking for a good raven clan, any recommendations? And with good I mean a clan where a lot of people play together regularly and are willing to work together (they dont need to be the best players).
I´m in a clan right now but usually there´s only, like, 8-10 of us playing at the same time which kind of sucks.
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Posted on 25 January, 2011 at 3:03 pm by TehPhilosopher
You must have been reading my mind – just yesterday I picked it up again, haven’t been online for a while. The guys at Zipper have made some welcome changes and fixed some (almost) gamebreaking issues, the most prominent being the excellent multiqueue to all or some game types of your choosing. There were plenty of people online as well.
As a hardcore FPS player with 15+ years of FPS experience this is one of the best FPSs out there, PC or PS3. I’ve always enjoyed the game, and now there’s DLC which I’m thinking of buying as well.
Happy birthday!
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Posted on 25 January, 2011 at 3:17 pm by M_Blindfold
Makingdamage, I recommend Deadly Blue Dots. We’re one of the biggest clans on Raven, with lots of Scandinavian players, and players from all around the globe. Check out http://dblued.freeforums.org/
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Posted on 25 January, 2011 at 3:27 pm by T-Jani
Can you please tell me why this game dont have status updates on the xmb like MW2, its so helpful to see what your friends are doing during the game.
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Posted on 25 January, 2011 at 3:50 pm by Ursinho
DLC @ -50% 2morrow 4+. Now tell me i can read your mind James
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Posted on 25 January, 2011 at 4:11 pm by Darkos87
I rented MAG and it was fun, but don’t feel like I have time to sink into it anymore…
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Posted on 25 January, 2011 at 4:30 pm by tiago-kun
I can’t find MAG on the stores near me. If only it would be back on the PSN Store, I could enjoy this
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Posted on 25 January, 2011 at 5:39 pm by Zooma7
MAG is such a great game, I played it for far over 200 hours, and no end is in sight. Gettin my platinium in a few days also, after that I will continue playing the game… It’s am game of the year and zipper did an excellent job with it. Thanks and Happy Birthday MAG.
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Posted on 25 January, 2011 at 6:01 pm by wardragon989
You know what you guys should do; create a viral trophy for this special event. If someone kills you they get this trophy and if someone kills them they get it as well.
Of course discounts and many other things would be cooler as well
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Posted on 25 January, 2011 at 7:03 pm by tiago-kun
Hey, wouldn’t you know, MAG is back on the Store
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Posted on 25 January, 2011 at 8:14 pm by PSN-OmniusALX
Hey Zipper
I remember you guys from the awesome MECHWARRIOR games!
Any chance of a PS3 re-boot??? I miss my PC gaming days for all things Battletech!
Regards
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Posted on 25 January, 2011 at 10:31 pm by exion
Hello Zipper!
I was wondering if MAG would be compatible with the upcoming sharpshooter accessory (I’ve been playing it with the move recently, which is great, but it’s really left me wanting a physical gun to hold (which I wasn’t expecting to be honest)…
More people should play MAG, it’s awesome!
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Posted on 25 January, 2011 at 11:01 pm by King_Bobo
Here’s to everyone carrying on playing MAG!
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Posted on 26 January, 2011 at 2:41 am by Stonesthrow
i stopped playing ever since they made it faction-free and changed the weapon-purchasing
still one of the best console shooters in terms of teamplay and communication, it’s just hard getting used to the technical and graphical quality again if you’ve been playing cod or whatever instead..but i put in over 300 hours and enjoyed this game so much
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Posted on 26 January, 2011 at 4:44 am by nevermore929
I buy all the major FPS’s, and I think I’ve had the most fun with MAG. I played the beta so much, that I was a little exhausted of it by the time it came out. But I ranked up as Valor – totally steaming mad about SVER the entire time. It wasn’t as fun losing to them every time. Then I vetted over to SVER, and my frustration level subsided a bit. I come back to MAG every couple months, realizing that it’s the game I like the most. There’s nothing like Domination. I appreciate all the effort Zipper puts into the game and I can’t wait for their next project. Congratulations, guys.
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Posted on 26 January, 2011 at 9:26 am by blankedboy
Just picked up MAG the other day for $30, another two clan mates got it for that price as well so we’ve already got a small group playing together.
It’s the first FPS to pull us away from Battlefield: Bad Company 2 in a year, so that says something about the game.
But discounts or free DLC for Plus members would be great and bring in more players
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Posted on 26 January, 2011 at 12:05 pm by flamingcarrot
PS+ subscribers in the US have been given free access to the full game, but with a level cap. I wonder if we will see the same offer on this side of the pond?
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Posted on 26 January, 2011 at 2:11 pm by Noisepurge
any chances of getting that PS+ demo to EU?
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Posted on 26 January, 2011 at 4:43 pm by FatScarf
I can’t believe some of you are complaining about this being too expensive at £20/25. I bet you guys buy CoD mappacks at £12 a pop without batting an eyelid?
£25 is amazing value for such a finely crafted and well supported game, compared to certain other franchises that act as black holes sucking out all of your money because their publishers know you’re dumb enough to buy their content without thinking.
Buy MAG, make Zipper happy, because they deserve it.
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