Hello hunters,
It’s finally December and we’re all slowly getting into the holiday mood. We hope you get a chance to take a stab at our traditional Holiday Event that kicked off two days ago. As usual, there are daily missions, competitions and sales from now until Christmas, December 25. Like it sometimes happens with events of such scale and complexity, we’ve ran into some teething problems at the start, especially with the Secret Santa option, but they’ve all been sorted out now. You can read more about this in our special Holiday Event thread.
November is over, and so is our Movember event. This year we sold 1574 moustaches, for which we donated 3148 dollars (about 28000 Swedish crowns) to the Movember foundation which will go towards funding research projects focusing on prostate cancer, testicular cancer, poor mental health and physical inactivity. Thank you for your support and contributions. Together we’ve helped to change the face of men’s health! And while we are on it, make sure to check the results of the devs’ personal Movember challenge and cast your vote for your favourite moustache of the Expansive Worlds.
Today we released one of the most requested weapons of all time. A new crossbow, with a reverse draw! It’s ethical for all species in the game and simply looks wicked. We definitely recommend checking it out.
We want to take this opportunity to announce that in three months, on March 3rd 2016, we’ll end official support for operating systems Windows XP and Vista. The reason is that Microsoft has already stopped supporting XP and is slowly dropping support for Vista. Due to this, those old operating systems carry security risks and significant hurdles for our technical team. Just a disclaimer; the game might still work on Vista and XP after we drop the support for those, however, we cannot guarantee that it will and will not be responsible for game performance.
What it will mean for those of you who still run those operating systems on their computers? We wouldn’t like to lose you from the theHunter community, so we would like to encourage everyone to upgrade to Windows 7 or higher. In fact, if you do this before the end of 2015, we’ll add 30 membership days to your account (in addition to those that you’re entitled to according to our compensation plan as per previous status update). To apply for this incentive, please submit a support ticket.
If upgrading from XP or Vista is not an option for you, and by March 2016 you’ll have more than 1 month of your membership time remaining, you can either transfer your unused membership time to a friend or apply for a monetary refund for the unused membership time (in this event all unused membership days will be removed). We’re going to provide detailed instructions on membership transfer and refunds in a separate post within the next month, so stay tuned. We’re kindly asking you to not create support tickets on those two matters before then as we won’t be able to address them.
A short note to those of you with XP who cannot play the game. We’re still working on the issue and we’ll keep you updated on the progress. We’re sorry for the troubles the decision to end support for XP and Vista might cause to those of you affected, however, as time progresses and technology develops, we need to take such decisions in order to provide the best possible game experience for as many players as possible from all over the world.
That’s it from us for today!
Happy hunting!
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