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Blizzard Entertainment posted:
With the launch of Rage of the Firelands (patch 4.2), we introduced the World of Warcraft Starter Edition, a replacement for the previously available free trial. The Starter Edition allows anyone to play for free up to level 20 without the time restrictions placed on trial accounts -- all you need is a Battle.net account and Internet connection. The Starter Edition also opens up some new features that weren't available in the old time-limited trial:
Players with the WoW Starter Edition can create draenei and blood elf characters, which were previously unavailable with trial accounts.
The two starting zones associated with these races are also available to people wishing to try out the game.
The gold limit has been raised to 10 gold, allowing Starter Edition players to purchase mounts when they reach the appropriate level.
When you reach level 20, your characters will stop gaining experience. However, you are free to continue playing and exploring Azeroth for as long as you wish -- or you can roll an entirely new character to try out a new race or class. You can also choose to upgrade to a full, paid account at any time and continue your adventures beyond level 20.
With the launch of the Starter Edition, all existing trial accounts, including expired ones, have been reactivated. That means if you've tried WoW in the past, your trial-account characters are now accessible once more.
As you may have already seen, our Recruit-a-Friend program has also been upgraded as a result of the changes introduced with the WoW Starter Edition.
Now's a better time than ever to try out World of Warcraft. If you?re thinking of getting into WoW or know a friend who's been interested in joining you in Azeroth, it's easy to give it a try today.
For more information on this exciting new feature and a full list of restrictions, please visit the Starter Edition FAQ.
http://us.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?locale=en_US&articleId=20590
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Desperation has set in.
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Back to WoW for now.
With a lil f2p CoH.
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HA! WoW F2P phase 2 is now live. Any bets on how long it takes them to bump the level cap to 60?
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Ugh_Lancelot posted:
HA! WoW F2P phase 2 is now live. Any bets on how long it takes them to bump the level cap to 60?
300k subs. Or a lil over 2 months.
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Ugh_Lancelot posted:
HA! WoW F2P phase 2 is now live. Any bets on how long it takes them to bump the level cap to 60?
7 year old game down in subscriptions makes it easier for new players to start.. more news at 11 !!!! 
Im glad you saw it coming all along! 
j/k!!  Ill say starter 60 cap around Nov for xmas sales.
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Going from their current model to F2P is going to take thousands of "phases" if raising the gold cap to TEN gold and making Draenai/Blood Elves available is an entire phase.
Here's your hat.
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Dums posted:
Going from their current model to F2P is going to take thousands of "phases" if raising the gold cap to TEN gold and making Draenai/Blood Elves available is an entire phase.
Here's your hat.
Stop it..making races that were introduced 5 years ago available for trial accounts is the definitive writing on the wall..its over. 
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Limiting it to level twenty is pointless. People don't have any investment in their character by then, they are still at the throw away stage. Let them get to forty or even better, sixty. Keep them out of Outlands but make them feel as if they are abandoning an investment. By twenty they haven't seen many of the instances let alone gotten a real feel for how the game plays. Limit their gold by level, enough that at sixty they in no way can buy flying. However do let them use the AH, just not be able to mail people directly or be used to create guilds. I would even let them in guilds, just not buy guild items
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you get to 20 really damn quick...it does seem rather low.
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Fedup23 posted:
Dums posted:
Going from their current model to F2P is going to take thousands of "phases" if raising the gold cap to TEN gold and making Draenai/Blood Elves available is an entire phase.
Here's your hat.
Stop it..making races that were introduced 5 years ago available for trial accounts is the definitive writing on the wall..its over.
Sarcasm [-----------------------X---] Inanity
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At least they are finally falling.
This can only be good for players. Blizzard needs some serious humility.
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Spookysheep posted:
At least they are finally falling.
This can only be good for players. Blizzard needs some serious humility.
Humility will have nothing to do with it. It will be "WoW is old, it's the natural aging and death process of MMo's. Go us, look how long we kept it going. Go us, look at all the subscription records we broke."
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WoW DEVS posted:
With the launch of the Starter Edition, all existing trial accounts, including expired ones, have been reactivated.
Hey look guys.... I found a way to inflate our numbers back to what they were 
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-MrBean- posted:
WoW DEVS posted:
With the launch of the Starter Edition, all existing trial accounts, including expired ones, have been reactivated.
Hey look guys.... I found a way to inflate our numbers back to what they were
/falls off chair laughing
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-MrBean- posted:
WoW DEVS posted:
With the launch of the Starter Edition, all existing trial accounts, including expired ones, have been reactivated.
Hey look guys.... I found a way to inflate our numbers back to what they were
While extremely funny I'll play devil's advocate and say that Blizzard only counts current subscriptions when they release official numbers. No trial accounts, expired accounts, banned accounts ect.
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Rill_of_WE posted:
-MrBean- posted:
WoW DEVS posted:
With the launch of the Starter Edition, all existing trial accounts, including expired ones, have been reactivated.
Hey look guys.... I found a way to inflate our numbers back to what they were
While extremely funny I'll play devil's advocate and say that Blizzard only counts current subscriptions when they release official numbers. No trial accounts, expired accounts, banned accounts ect.
Or so they tell us
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Why would one advocate for the devil. He hates you, you know
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Spookysheep posted:
Why would one advocate for the devil. He hates you, you know
He's just misunderstood.
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So he would have you believe
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Rill_of_WE posted:
Spookysheep posted:
Why would one advocate for the devil. He hates you, you know
He's just misunderstood.
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