2/18/2009 - All Servers - Hero Token Drop in the Marketplace
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On February 18, 2009 during the evening (roughly 6:30 pm on FF) +Turbine Geneva went to each server and dropped hundreds of Hero Tokens in the Marketplace. This act was an official apology for the recent server instability and authentication server problems.
Read the Thread about it on the AC Forums including a response from Geneva