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I hope not but…
Will be possible to this accounts to level chars up to 20 in Classic?, in Vanilla I don’t remember this happened.

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I don’t know what you mean? You can’t play Classic without a subscription.

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You can’t play BfA without a subscription either… but you CAN play a character until level 20 as a trial.

He wants to know if that would also apply to Classic? It’s a valid concern… although I think it could actually be helpful. There may be a lot of people who would not pony up $15 to try Classic… but would try the free lvl 20 thing and get hooked.

Still there are likely abuses of it I can’t think of.

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If we were to take 1-20 an 1-120 as comparison with 1-60 then maybe they could do a 1- 10.

But I don’t think this will happen, atleast not for the first 2 years.

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Ah, I see!

That is interesting. I think there are some ways it could be abused, especially since I think twinking in Vanilla is much stronger than modern WoW, but yeah, as you brought up, Vanilla is a much different experience.

Really a viable concern.

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I believe trials in Vanilla were to lvl 10 cannot remember.

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I don’t remember any trials in vanilla. There certainly weren’t any at launch.

Trials would be a horrible idea, because it means either trials have ludicrous restrictions to prevent abuse (basically no communication) which would leave you in a game where communication and community are key, but in which new players can’t communicate with the community or they’d be unrestricted and just be a conduit for free gold seller spam.

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I didnt play until BC, but weren’t trials more of the here’s a code to “Try it for 14 days” variety back then? Maybe it was different before I started.

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That’s what I recall.

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I could see them doing it in the future if Blizzard feels like it could bring in more subscriptions. Having it available at launch would be disastrous as far as bringing in tons of extra bodies to the starter zones.

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Trials were for two weeks. If you could get to 60 in those two weeks, that’s how far you’d get, but of course you didn’t. When the trial was over, it was over and the account was locked until you subscribed.

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Yep. And back then, you didn’t have to simply subscribe, you also had to buy the game before you could subscribe.

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I really doubt trial accounts will be allowed access to Classic.

“Classic is free with an active subscription to WoW”. I take this to mean, is no sub, no Classic. So if you only have a trial account, no classic.

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I also don’t think that Classic will be available to trial accounts. For someone who is new to the game, Classic probably isn’t a good place to start and I imagine that Blizzard would prefer new players to start with retail.

But if I’m wrong, it’ll certainly be quite intersting.

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Well bfa isn’t a game
Classic is

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I wouldn’t actually mind if they made WOW Classic have a trial similar to Retail’s; in fact, I’d probably play it. (Then again, if they made Retail trials go up to 60, they might get a lot more MAU with people who want a fix, but get bored of the very limited 1-20 play.)

However, I can think of a few critical factors:

  1. Vanilla was not designed that way, so there are things that devs would have to add and control for that aren’t part of the 1.12 data, and might not make sense from the latest Retail client. That means asking for more dev work to deliver something that isn’t authentic vanilla. (Flip side is that because they no longer have the 10-day or 14-day trials, what was authentic can’t be delivered. So this one could go either way.)
  1. Communication is vital in vanilla. With the Retail trial, who cares if you can’t chat with anyone unless you’re in a party with them - you don’t need anyone to level to 20, you just use the Random Dungeon Finder to get groups, all the quests tell you where to go and what to get.
  1. Much as I hate the butchered talent trees and skill/spell lists, Blizzard did finally at one point make the learning sequence more logical - so someone leveling 1-20 picks up important spells in a particular order, such that just about every class and spec can play well at 20. Vanilla was not like that at all.
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:man_facepalming::rofl:

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You will only be able to play classic if you have an active subscription… soo I mean that should answer your question

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Trials in vanilla were originally by disc and code, at least that’s what’s in my vanilla box, trial discs and trial codes in the TBc box

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If I remember right (may have been TBC…)… but I think the trials were for 14 days, AND you weren’t allowed to whisper/trade/AH anything.

I would be fine if that were the case again.

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