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WoW is Now Free-To-Play Until Level 20 [31223]

 
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 30, 2011 1:36 am    Post subject: WoW is Now Free-To-Play Until Level 20 [31223] Reply with quote

World of Warcraft is going partially Free-to-Play, with the first 20 levels being available entirely for free. Now known as World of Warcraft Starter Edition, this move effectively replaces the old 10-14 day trials utilized up until now.

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PostPosted: Thu Jun 30, 2011 4:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

well, after loosing 1.5 million subscribers, thats the logical step to take.

but, in every path , blizzard try to balance the races and obvious a lot of players got angry with constant changes into theyrs characters and gameplay.

wow is slowly dying right now. lets see what else blizzard will do to revert the situation.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 30, 2011 5:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

They need a lot of level 18-20 characters so the high-level characters (of paying users) can slaughter them up and level even further...
This is what you get for free. Meat to the grinder.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 30, 2011 6:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

They couldn't pay me enough to play this garbage. F U Blizzard.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 30, 2011 7:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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They need a lot of level 18-20 characters so the high-level characters (of paying users) can slaughter them up and level even further...


err what? anyone over ~5 levels up wouldn't even get anything to level further, from ganking lowbie level characters.. to prevent that sort of stuff.

anyway I think someone ought to tell Blizztard marketing department what free to play usually means.. this is still just really a trial, only difference is its not a fixed time limit.
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