I start up my Bnet launcher from time to time and noticed that I had a gift from Blizzard. I checked it out and it was a 3 day Sub of gametime to try their return of Ashara or whatever… I laughed and said, Wow oh geez, they must be getting desperate. I don’t think this was in the kindness of their hearts to give me Sub time but because they haven’t hit the metrics they want with the release of 8.2
However this gametime will be a wasted gift as you couldn’t pay me to log into Retail like most of the WoW players who feel betrayed and needed to be won back with BFA but obviously that didn’t happen. They launched a barely finished game that needed to be pushed back 6 months.
Did anyone else get gifted Sub time? Will you use it? Or will you laugh hysterically like myself and eagerly wait for the return of World of Warcraft on 8-27-19
That makes sense, yea not gonna happen. I mean if I could make a Twink for 3 days… Oh wait… they removed Twinks… Sigh. Literally the last thing you could do in WoW if you hated max level play and they destroy it.
Still unsure why they don’t have open stress test since most of the Classic players aren’t Subbed. It would only benefit them to open it up and also give them some real statistical data and really test the servers.
In part because it filters out bad actors. Trolls and hackers who just want to mess with the test would be required to pay for each account. If they want to mass DDOS the servers with an overload of accounts, it would be financially nonviable for them.
Since there are no trial accounts for Classic, they aren’t going to face that in live.
It does indeed. I’ve never been offered free but have been unsubbed since WoD’s end. In fact I’ve only just managed to post here again with an f2p level 10; it hasn’t recognised my old characters since the forum changeover … so I haven’t bothered paying attention to the goings-on here, but getting excited now!
I just logged on for the first time since October to download the classic client and got the same 3 day “gift”. I do think it is a desperate ploy to regain subs due to the epic failure of the latest patch but hey, I won’t look a gift horse in the mouth. Thanks blizzdaddy
They’ve been doing this since late cata or wraith, that and give away the exp packs after x amount of years. They’re trying to see if people still want to see what’s new and so on, I know they use to have Scroll of restoration, though i think they got rid of that.