Serve in the military and get a discount on Fallen Earth
by Eliot Lefebvre 
Dec 9th 2009 at 9:00AM
Filed under: Sci-fi, Fallen Earth, Business models, News items
It's a hard time to be serving in the military, even if you're not stationed overseas at the moment. After all, the armed forces don't always get the luxury of having Christmas off. So it's nice to know that the gamers among the armed forces get a little bit extra if they're inspired to pick up Fallen Earth. The company has just announced that the military will receive a 20% discount on the price of the game, plus a free t-shirt with their purchase. And not one of the in-game items the game has been fond of giving out lately -- a real one.
The offer is open to members in any one of the US armed branches -- the Coast Guard, Marines, Army, Air Force, or Navy are all eligible. All that's required is a .mil e-mail address to verify that the person ordering is in the military. The one catch is that it's only applied to orders through the official Fallen Earth store, so Steam and similar venues aren't available. But it's an excellent way of compensating the men and women serving their country, so if you are eligible and haven't grabbed the game yet, head on over to pick yourself up a copy.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Sting said on 9:45AM 12-09-2009
I think that's pretty awesome. Personally, I think they'd deserve a reduced subscription fee as well, but any effort is pretty cool.
For the record, I am not in the military, but I have friends who are.
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this guys said on 9:58AM 12-09-2009
all of my friends who have been stationed overseas have found online gaming as a refuge and a familiar past time in the fields of shit. without getting too political, all online gaming for us forces should be free, or payed for by the US government.
i am not really interested in socialized gaming, but online gaming for our troops is a great stress reliever and is something very accessible all over the earth. anything that can support our troops is worth financing. fallen earth has demonstrate an enormous amount of consideration for the US armed forces. bravo.
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OfieshK said on 10:03AM 12-09-2009
I know alot of troops play halo 3 all the time, i certainly hope the gov or microsoft are paying for those setups.
Dumac said on 5:45PM 12-09-2009
Gee, i thought that a refuge from the drab military life in a foreign country would be found in games that were less ... military-ish. I guess i was wrong.
UltimateQ said on 10:27AM 12-09-2009
Oh boy. I think I'll join the military now so I can get this game at 20% off. To bad there are several weeks of boot camp I have to go through before I can play it.
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MH said on 11:00AM 12-09-2009
What a great program! I'm looking to join the military and would love a program like this. A lot of people take a pay cut to serve their country and it's great whenever private companies show some love to the armed services.
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LaughingTarget said on 12:32PM 12-09-2009
The one flaw in the system is that civilians also have .mil addresses. I have a navy.mil one myself.
But, if anyone really cares enough, you can go into the reserves and still work your normal job. I'm set to do this shortly myself.
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kooda said on 12:38PM 12-09-2009
Wow this is nice but more developers need to do this if these people are brave and disciplined enough to be in the military should be like 80% off or government pays for games.
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Utakata said on 6:33PM 12-09-2009
Oh dear...jingoism.
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DFG said on 10:05PM 12-09-2009
I don't think my future tax dollars should go to armed service members for video games (America's Army had better be child's play to them :P), but I think it's wonderful that they are being rewarded by the private sector. I wonder if international armed service members will be included at some point.
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