Play World of Warcraft for free forever with the new endless trial mode

[Thunderofnl]

…Up to level 20 at least. Blizzard announced today that they’re completely revamping their trial account system. Instead of limiting the amount of time you can spend playing, trial accounts will allow you to play as much as you want all the way up to level 20 on as many characters as you can create (similar to Warhammer Online’s endless trial system). There will likely be some restrictions on the accounts to prevent spammers from abusing them, but those details have not been outlined yet.

Players that like what they see can purchase the game and the Burning Crusade expansion (which increases the level cap to 70, opens Outlands, and unlocks the Blood Elf and Draenei races) for only 20 bucks. In addition, anyone that currently owns the original game, but did not have the Burning Crusade expansion, now has that expansion automatically added to their accounts for free.

What do you think? Will you play around in the new endless trial mode? Is this the Blizzard’s first step in making WoW free-to-play? And is that a change you want Blizzard to make for WoW?


Source: PC Gamer – The global authority on PC games

I just copied an paste to see what your guys view on this is.

[Terrorblade]

You can't talk, group or even trade on trial accounts from my experience so what would be the point?

[thebigman]

There will likely be some restrictions on the accounts to prevent spammers from abusing them, but those details have not been outlined yet.

Methinks they will change that, terror, thats the point.

[stoneharry]

You can't talk, group or even trade on trial accounts from my experience so what would be the point?

Some people like to play the game rather than rely on the chat channels to have fun.

Say and party chat works fine, which is all you need to play normally. Being able to chat to everyone in the zone is only a given advantage.

[Confucius]

D: Now my 60 twink account is ruined is what I think

[Multitask]

Methinks they will change that, terror, thats the point.

methinks the deff wont. system will instantly be abused

[Remus3]

my raf upgraded to vanilla has bc for free /le happy. and also @ 60 twink; just stop your xp at the battlemaster or w.e.

(they credited my vanilla account to the BC price) and oddly got a 30$ refund from them 2 days ago.

[Ballwinkle]

Burning crusade is now offically pointless for retailers?

[shadowsx]

my raf upgraded to vanilla has bc for free /le happy. and also @ 60 twink; just stop your xp at the battlemaster or w.e.

(they credited my vanilla account to the BC price) and oddly got a 30$ refund from them 2 days ago.

but then you will have to go up against other twinks >.>

[Remus3]

Bleh, better to play on equal terms instead of destroying those without the luxury of being twinked out who just want to level >.>

sadly if those that would try and twinkout with trials only... heirlooms rock the house, and those can't be attained without buying the keys to be legit. The cause that trials can't join guilds(thereby buy guild loot heirlooms).

still very pleased with bc being down to 20$