http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/06/28/play-world-of-warcraft-for-free-forever-with-the-new-endless-trial-mode/

No one will abuse this at all not in the world of warcraft.

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Originally posted by parrotpholk
No one will abuse this at all not in the world of warcraft.

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It probably has the vanilla free trial limitations in that about the only thing you can do is kill monsters and use the /say chat channel.

Otherwise, its no trading, no auction house, no mailing, no grouping, no nothing.

Eh well, the only advantage i see in this is that roleplayers could do their thing and not pay.. >.>?

Wonder what happens for people over level 20 and their subscription runs out.

It's interesting.   I don't think it'd lure me back, because I believe it's only for trial accounts, not former ones.   Meaning that even if I had some sub level 20 characters, I couldn't play them.     I had a lot of fun in Wow, but I don't care for it's endgame in the least.

The level 19 pvp game should get interesting I suppose.

If it's as crippled as the trial system used to be, this is hardly "free to play".

This sounds more like an extended free trial, not actual f2p.

With the RAF and now this, sounds like they are still bleeding subs lol.

Someone is in trouble.... Seriously and it will not get better once TOR and GW2 release. Thats what you get when you milk it to death. The game isn't bad but come on Blizzard, give us your new mmo announcement this year. You know some hope that it is worth while to continue to play your games until your new mmo gets here.

Haha i just played, limitations are no trading, and no forming groups. You can get invited to a group from a p2per.

so 14 day free trial

No acess

to

Unlimited free trial

Speak

Auction House

Grouping up

pvp

since you can't trade, get your professions up, make money, and buy your lvl 19 gear :P

yep ,but it still has all of the trial account restrictions. No trading, no AH, no mail, no using chat channels unless someone whispers you first, etc.

Originally posted by Coldskin

yep ,but it still has all of the trial account restrictions. No trading, no AH, no mail, no using chat channels unless someone whispers you first, etc.

false, you can now use AH, speak, whisper, mail, everything except trade and START grouping, p2pers can group with you.

Originally posted by AzurePrower

Wonder what happens for people over level 20 and their subscription runs out.

It's completely apart from the sub system.  It creates a new game key attachd to the battle.net account.

Trade is restricted.  Trials can't do a party invite (maybe can join a subs party).  They can whisper which surprised me.  Friends list works.

It doesn't seem to be advertised much yet.  The starting area we played was dead empty.  I think I saw 2 other people.

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As far as I can see AH is locked out.  I cannot buy, bid or post auctions.

Mail is also locked out.  Cannot send or receive.

As if I needed another reason to quit and never look back. I love the characters I've created over the years, but there's not much of a game here anymore.

For Pony! I am returning. I don't mind just hanging out in capitals and the early zones.

Op's link was updated to say this

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The full restrictions are:
- A level cap of 20.
– A maximum of 10 gold.
– Trade skills are capped at 100 ranks.
– Unable to trade via the Auction House, mailbox, or player-to-player.
– In-game access to public chat channels unavailable. Players are limited to communicating using only say, party, or whisper.
– Characters will be unable to create or join guilds.
– Characters are not able to send whispers to other characters unless they have been added to the characters’ friends lists or have received a whisper from a character first.
– Characters will not be able to invite other players into a party.
– Characters will not be able to join parties with other characters above level 20.
– Voice chat disabled on Starter Edition accounts.
– Realms experiencing login queues will prioritize players who have full, paid accounts.
– Starter Edition accounts are not eligible for character transfers
– RealID features are disabled on all Starter Edition Accounts.

Originally posted by Xiaoki

Um ....how?

It probably has the vanilla free trial limitations in that about the only thing you can do is kill monsters and use the /say chat channel.

Otherwise, its no trading, no auction house, no mailing, no grouping, no nothing.

Whispering and shouting about gold selling sites? Idiotic trolls will run around and insult everyone?

Don't worry, scammers will abuse anything and if you give them a finger they will take the entire hand.

I dunno if this is such a great idea, AoC did the same thing and it didn't work out that well for them. A free 14 day should be more than enough to get new players, I don't think this will do much one way or another.

Originally posted by Loke666

Originally posted by Xiaoki

Um ....how?

It probably has the vanilla free trial limitations in that about the only thing you can do is kill monsters and use the /say chat channel.

Otherwise, its no trading, no auction house, no mailing, no grouping, no nothing.

Whispering and shouting about gold selling sites? Idiotic trolls will run around and insult everyone?

Don't worry, scammers will abuse anything and if you give them a finger they will take the entire hand.

I dunno if this is such a great idea, AoC did the same thing and it didn't work out that well for them. A free 14 day should be more than enough to get new players, I don't think this will do much one way or another.

 With the new spam button gold sellers shouting in game have been down.  Whispers have not but these accounts can not whisper you without you whispering them first.

Yeah, I'm not real smart. I'm too old to be anymore. Especially about things I care little about, such as WOW.

However, this seems to be the first "true" sign that I have seen that Blizzard is concerned about the state of WOW. This smells of desperation. By reading this site alone, you always see and hear inklings of such things, but they never seemed to really register with me. But as soon as I heard about this, that was my first thought, for the first time, that the king, perhaps, is naked.

Not a WOW basher by the way. Played hardcore for 18-20 months. Loved it. Got bored. Quit. Never played again. Still think it's a wonderful game, for it's purpose, but have no desire to play.

But wtf do I know? Guess time will tell.