PallyDog
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Anyone get one of these emails yet? As a thank for being a veteran players...blah blah blah...we're giving you a "free" account for a friend. Basically it's 30 days game play that's free. Full WoW account, no trial restrictions. So where's the catch? After 30 days do you simply start paying each month or will you need to buy xpacs etc? If this is a scam it's the best I've seen. You can simply go to battle.net directly and put in the key. I fail to see how that would give anyone any info unless battle.net has been seriously hacked in which case we're all screwed. Frankly I would say it's legitmate, it makes sense, they're trying to bail out thier sinking ship with hats. No, I haven't tried it out, don't have anyone I'd be interested in dragging into the game atm.
Anyone else get one of these?
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from http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/2721382888?page=3#48
Nethaera posted:
The veteran award email and offer are legitimate and are being sent out to veterans who have previously opted in to receiving news and special offers from Blizzard Entertainment. We may run more of these types of promotions in the future, so if this is something you are interested in, we suggest opting in as soon as possible so you don’t miss out.
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TruthyID posted:
from http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/2721382888?page=3#48
Nethaera posted:
We are hemorrhaging subscriptions and must do something to attract new suckers
Fix't
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Yup i got one.....
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PallyDog
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Yeah, what I find amazing is they were slammed on the forums with people asking about these emails and it took them forever to respond.
Apparently it's the full client and you only need pay your subscription once the thirty days runs out.
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That's pretty interesting.
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I setup a second account for myself. No BC or Cata races.
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-Peo- posted:
TruthyID posted:
from http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/2721382888?page=3#48
Nethaera posted:
We are hemorrhaging subscriptions and must do something to attract new suckers
Fix't
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Thats surprising its no BC at least.
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Ok, so this is just a key for VANILLA wow? If you play past the 30 days you have to buy the expansions?
I don't get it. This is supposed to be an award to veteran players, and obviously to boost subscribers, yet the vanilla game you can pick up in bargain bin for 5 bucks, or less?
I hate to be a doombringer, but SWG just announced its imminent death, coming this December. Now the 800 pound gorilla is begging for sales and subs.
Is this starting to show a problem with subscription based gaming, or just the RPG genre in general?
It's obvious Blizz thinks it's the later since their next "MMO" is going to be a FPS shooter. Tabula Rasa anyone?
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Tabula Rasa was NOT a FPS shooter at all.
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It's jsut vanilla. Do RAF before you redeem your key, then you have 10 days of trial time, (wait the full 10 days before upgrading) plus 30 free played days so that makes 40 free days, easy enough to lvl all your alts to 60. Splurge and buy two months, get the rocket!
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PallyDog posted:
It's jsut vanilla. Do RAF before you redeem your key, then you have 10 days of trial time, (wait the full 10 days before upgrading) plus 30 free played days so that makes 40 free days, easy enough to lvl all your alts to 60. Splurge and buy two months, get the rocket!
Actually, I just read that they are changing RAF to get friends, alts, or whatever to 80 rather than just to 60.
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Isoke posted:
PallyDog posted:
It's jsut vanilla. Do RAF before you redeem your key, then you have 10 days of trial time, (wait the full 10 days before upgrading) plus 30 free played days so that makes 40 free days, easy enough to lvl all your alts to 60. Splurge and buy two months, get the rocket!
Actually, I just read that they are changing RAF to get friends, alts, or whatever to 80 rather than just to 60.
 So now they want people to skip past the entire original game plus two expansions as quickly as possible, just so they can hit cataclysm and say "WTF" and cancel right away?
Only blizzard LOL
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