This is clearly a reaction to the upcoming release of SWTOR whether or not it works or for that matter is necessary remains to be seen.
Blizzard giving away Diablo 3 for free to WoW subscribers for a 1 year commitment.
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I'd love to take advantage of this promotion personally. Unfortunately I only have a free trial 20 level account of WoW and as such do not qualify. I don't fully understand why a promo like this is only available to full account holders before Oct 18th. If this was truly something to combat MMO's like Guild Wars 2 and Old Republic, they'd allow anyone to get in on it.
This is a great promotional idea by Blizzard though. In effect, they are trying to keep subscriptions up instead of dividing their own customer base between these two games. It's also great to see Blizzard giving the loyal WoW players free stuff for something they were going to do anyways.
This is a great promotional idea by Blizzard though. In effect, they are trying to keep subscriptions up instead of dividing their own customer base between these two games. It's also great to see Blizzard giving the loyal WoW players free stuff for something they were going to do anyways.
I love statements like this.thelonewolf266 said:
I'm sorry but do you have any proof of this? Some sort of insider information that you would care to share with the rest of us?
Because if you don't than you are clearly just talking out of your rear end. It's just your opinion on why they rolled out with this. How do you know it isn't a reaction to Guild Wars 2, it has been getting a good amount of press and a decent amount of various gaming personalities have said good things about it. Or how do you know this isn't a reaction to the growing boom of various free to play games. Seriously, have you looked at the staggering numbers of these microtransaction games?
Hell maybe it is just a reaction to the fact that a lot of people absolutely hate Cataclysm and numbers are just falling away as people get bored to the game itself. Maybe they are like hey we announced Mists of Pandaria, people will come back to max out their characters to prep for the expansion, let's try to lock them in during this time so they won't go away.
Hah, so if they release Diablo III within half a year, is their plan to have players pay for WoW for six extra months while they might be playing a lot less? 
Or does the promotion not even start until the release date?
And the people who do keep on playing will likely buy the next expansion anyway
Or does the promotion not even start until the release date?
And the people who do keep on playing will likely buy the next expansion anyway
I'm sorry, you appear to be under the mistaken impression that Blizzard don't care about money.Sean951 said:
I don't need proof, that was my opinion just like your comment is your opinion I'm sorry for not putting a disclaimer on the end of the post I didn't think it was necessary.Rednog said:
Also micro-transaction games have been big for a while now so I doubt that this would be a reaction to that.SWTOR is very close to release whereas Guild Wars 2 is further off so its more likely to be because of SWTOR and from what I've seen there is more anticipation for SWTOR than there is for Guild Wars 2 and before you ask no I don't have numbers backing that up from a source signed by the president to verify its authenticity its just how i see it so next time I offer an opinion I have no problem with you refuting it but kindly don't insult me for it.
Still not enough to make me reactivate my account. I played WoW from wotlk through to Cata. I actually started to enjoy it more post Cata, but after a few months the appeal was starting to wear off. Then the guild I was in suffered from several schizms (Oh, the drama!), at which point I came to the conclusion that too many people took the game far too seriously and when my subscription expired I didn't bother to renew it.
Dangling a game that doesn't interest me in the least, and the chance of early access to WoW: Now With Added Pokemon is not going to change my mind.
But if you like WoW, and are likely to still be playing it a year from now, then why not?
OT: I do often wonder how accurate the subscription figures they band about are. I mean, is my unused-for-six-months account included in their "10 million players online!" (or whatever figure it is now) blurbs? Surely after so many years there must be a colossal number of dormant accounts lying unused.
Dangling a game that doesn't interest me in the least, and the chance of early access to WoW: Now With Added Pokemon is not going to change my mind.
But if you like WoW, and are likely to still be playing it a year from now, then why not?
OT: I do often wonder how accurate the subscription figures they band about are. I mean, is my unused-for-six-months account included in their "10 million players online!" (or whatever figure it is now) blurbs? Surely after so many years there must be a colossal number of dormant accounts lying unused.
Uhh an opinion usually goes along the lines of "I think that" "It looks like" "To me...." etc. When you say something like "This clearly is X" that is a declarative statement, and it implies that it is a fact.thelonewolf266 said:
Also please show me where my in my previous post did I make an opinion? My post is proposing a questions and no where do I make any type of claim that could be regarded as opinion on the matter.
Games switching from the traditional monthly subscription to micro-transactions has been huge within the last year, Star Trek online, Lord of the Rings, Champions Online, City of Heroes/Villians, Age of Connan and a slew of other MMOs. Then we have free games like League of Legends, Heroes of Newerth and several other games that are thriving on microtransactions. Microtransactions have been around in a smaller capacity with things like Zynga sure, but we're finally seeing them in big name MMORPGS, and having these big name MMORPGS ditch the model wow is using for the microtransaction plan and you don't think this is significant?
Also your point of oh look at the dates, SWTOR is so close Blizz must be saying this now because SWTOR is just on the horizon...yes the date has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that Blizz makes all of its big announcements at some sort of special event that it holds every year around the same time...nothing at all. I'd maybe give some credence to the notion that this announcement of the Diablo 3 deal to be reactionary to SWTOR if it was just randomly announced, but this is just one of many announcements that was at blizzcon, who knows how long they have been sitting on it?
And why is my post insulting, because I and most other gamers are tired of the nonsense of people coming a thread about X game and being like "this game is going to do better or what not". Seriously WoW has been around for how long and every damn time a new game rears its head apparently blizzard is pissing itself.
You like SWTOR good for you, but don't go into a thread making a statement you pulled out of your rear.
You insulted me by saying I'm pulling things out my rear end that's unnecessary and you did it again in your second post.I never said I like SWTOR in fact I said I thought it may not be necessary for Blizzard to do this in my first post but you clearly didn't bother reading that as soon as you thought I was hating on WOW you jumped to their defence.I also didn't say SWTOR was going to do better or imply in any way that Blizzard was pissing themselves in fact I think any company that doesn't implement measures to ensure their continued success when a similar competing product comes along would be stupid.Oh and the arrogance of you saying you can speak for most other gamers is astounding where is your proof that the majority of people agree with you, considering quite a lot of people in this thread have said the things you seem to be accusing me of saying it would seem you are wrong.Speaking of which why aren't you having a go at people that actually said the thing you are angry about rather than me?Rednog said:
Nah. Blizzard said they calculated the cost based on gaining exactly enough to cover the cost of keeping the auction house running in the first place. They did not intend on earning money from it.hensethe1 said:
OT: I think this is a great idea. If I was still playing wow (sc2 is taking all my time nowadays), I would jump straight on to this.