Well, I'll do this but does anyone know about how pricing and so forth will work? Will I have to buy the retail game afterwards or pay 39.95 online to enable the full version?

Thanks!

Sean

Originally posted by Lordcrapalot
Ah so I see that Blizzard is feeling abit "afraid".

Originally posted by knowom
More like greedy they just want people's money plain and simple and they'll do anything to get it. They told me if I came back they'd transfer my character for free then when I came back said I'd been misinformed by one of there employees and said I'd have to pay to have the character transfered which I clearly asked about before coming back in the first place so I demanded a refund, but they refused to give me one so in my eyes they'll forever remain a bunch of money monger crooks. It's kinda like when before the game came out they promised these awesome gladiatorial arena battles, but never delivered remotely on that promise until later with BC. Warcraft is nothing, but a easy EQ mimic'd grindfest with a basic lackluster rock paper scissors pvp after thought tossed in. People can defend it all they want, but that's essentially what the game is they took the fun and addictive aspects of EQ made them easy mode to appear appealing to casual players, but turned it into a much worse off grind for the competent players in the end. As for pvp all it is and ever will be is a after thought to blizzard it's not skill based it's rock paper scissors and equipment based. I'd be curious to see what the subscription base is for BC enabled WoW. Just wait till Warhammer is released the subscriber based will shrink quickly at least to a point. Like uo there will always be the few addicts who just can't seem to habit.

Originally posted by SynxVII
I was under the impression outland was all 60-70 content, how is this supposed to work? unless they expect you to get to level 60 within those 10 days.. lol. Unless they will let you play with your account you canceled a while back?

Snore, I would rather play Mapelstory than go back to WoW.  I quit and got rid of my account with 4 60 toons once burning crusade came out and never looked back.  It was a fun game, I think the expansion ruined it.  I'm looking forward to Age Of Conan and Warhammer.  Seems like all these free trials they are offering is a sign.

Originally posted by knowom
More like greedy they just want people's money plain and simple and they'll do anything to get it. They told me if I came back they'd transfer my character for free then when I came back said I'd been misinformed by one of there employees and said I'd have to pay to have the character transfered which I clearly asked about before coming back in the first place so I demanded a refund, but they refused to give me one so in my eyes they'll forever remain a bunch of money monger crooks. It's kinda like when before the game came out they promised these awesome gladiatorial arena battles, but never delivered remotely on that promise until later with BC. Warcraft is nothing, but a easy EQ mimic'd grindfest with a basic lackluster rock paper scissors pvp after thought tossed in. People can defend it all they want, but that's essentially what the game is they took the fun and addictive aspects of EQ made them easy mode to appear appealing to casual players, but turned it into a much worse off grind for the competent players in the end. As for pvp all it is and ever will be is a after thought to blizzard it's not skill based it's rock paper scissors and equipment based. I'd be curious to see what the subscription base is for BC enabled WoW. Just wait till Warhammer is released the subscriber based will shrink quickly at least to a point. Like uo there will always be the few addicts who just can't seem to habit.

Originally posted by Gameloading

Originally posted by Lordcrapalot
Ah so I see that Blizzard is feeling abit "afraid".

why so? they had free trials many times, they just take it a step further.

I totally agree with you on that. Couldn't of said it any better.   What's funny is that Blizzard doesn't even own the game, They sold it to Vivendi right after beta was over. And needless to say, You wonder why you crashed so much or wondered why the game was down all the fucking time, Well here it is,  They run their servers off of AT&T "Dial up" service. They are a bunch of french greedy mofos that never gave a shit about their customers. And never will. IMO they can take their cookie cutter PvP exstreme carebear game right up their asses.

Originally posted by knowom
More like greedy they just want people's money plain and simple and they'll do anything to get it. They told me if I came back they'd transfer my character for free then when I came back said I'd been misinformed by one of there employees and said I'd have to pay to have the character transfered which I clearly asked about before coming back in the first place so I demanded a refund, but they refused to give me one so in my eyes they'll forever remain a bunch of money monger crooks. It's kinda like when before the game came out they promised these awesome gladiatorial arena battles, but never delivered remotely on that promise until later with BC. Warcraft is nothing, but a easy EQ mimic'd grindfest with a basic lackluster rock paper scissors pvp after thought tossed in. People can defend it all they want, but that's essentially what the game is they took the fun and addictive aspects of EQ made them easy mode to appear appealing to casual players, but turned it into a much worse off grind for the competent players in the end. As for pvp all it is and ever will be is a after thought to blizzard it's not skill based it's rock paper scissors and equipment based. I'd be curious to see what the subscription base is for BC enabled WoW. Just wait till Warhammer is released the subscriber based will shrink quickly at least to a point. Like uo there will always be the few addicts who just can't seem to habit.

Originally posted by zevian

I totally agree with you on that. Couldn't of said it any better.   What's funny is that Blizzard doesn't even own the game, They sold it to Vivendi right after beta was over. And needless to say, You wonder why you crashed so much or wondered why the game was down all the fucking time, Well here it is,  They run their servers off of AT&T "Dial up" service. They are a bunch of french greedy mofos that never gave a shit about their customers. And never will. IMO they can take their cookie cutter PvP exstreme carebear game right up their asses.

Actually Vivendi Owns Blizzard.

and has owned them well before World of Warcraft came out.   they also own sierra games. and a few record labels etc..

k thanks

Originally posted by Xstortion

Originally posted by zevian

I totally agree with you on that. Couldn't of said it any better.   What's funny is that Blizzard doesn't even own the game, They sold it to Vivendi right after beta was over. And needless to say, You wonder why you crashed so much or wondered why the game was down all the fucking time, Well here it is,  They run their servers off of AT&T "Dial up" service. They are a bunch of french greedy mofos that never gave a shit about their customers. And never will. IMO they can take their cookie cutter PvP exstreme carebear game right up their asses.

Actually Vivendi Owns Blizzard.

and has owned them well before World of Warcraft came out.   they also own sierra games. and a few record labels etc..

k thanks

Nope your wrong. Go ask a GM or a Tech at their department. You are wrong.

Originally posted by Lordcrapalot

Originally posted by Xstortion

Originally posted by zevian

I totally agree with you on that. Couldn't of said it any better.   What's funny is that Blizzard doesn't even own the game, They sold it to Vivendi right after beta was over. And needless to say, You wonder why you crashed so much or wondered why the game was down all the fucking time, Well here it is,  They run their servers off of AT&T "Dial up" service. They are a bunch of french greedy mofos that never gave a shit about their customers. And never will. IMO they can take their cookie cutter PvP exstreme carebear game right up their asses.

Actually Vivendi Owns Blizzard.

and has owned them well before World of Warcraft came out.   they also own sierra games. and a few record labels etc..

k thanks

Nope your wrong. Go ask a GM or a Tech at their department. You are wrong.

Nope Vivendi owns Blizzard.

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Anyway its always nice when mmo's put out trials

I love it, how in the world did you not know that Blizzard is owned by Vivendi and double post it no less.  Making statements like that shows you that you to lazy to use any of the search engines on the net to back up your statements.

The people at Blizzard are realists.  If the trial can hook some people who left, then that is more money in their coffers.  Not costing them anything to do this except for the time it took some programmers to put together the trial code.

Look at Eve, almost all new players start on trials and they are doing quite well with that model, immitating success is not a bad idea.

Originally posted by Huria
This thread made me realize that if any game company releases a demo or a trial for a game they are scared of competition or the game is on its last legs

Originally posted by LordSlater

Originally posted by Huria
This thread made me realize that if any game company releases a demo or a trial for a game they are scared of competition or the game is on its last legs

Not always When EvE does it its after each majour patch to show everyone whats new. Also EvE has no competitors so its not that either.

Eve's got a trial 24/7/12/52.