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On February 13 2011 20:36 coddan wrote:
Let me get this straight. You receive a completely free game, no strings attached, and complain that you didn't get more?
No strings attached? You forgot the part where you need to buy 3 more expansions to actually play the real game, not to mention the subscription fees after 30 days. It's like saying LoL is free and no strings attached... oh but you need to buy heroes to actually do something. Sad how the gaming world has degenerated into a milk fest.
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im not exactly sure why people are skeptical of this email being a scam or not.
while you are entitled to question the legitness of the email, there is a very simple way to find out if its a scam or not..
simply go to www.battle.net (instead of clicking on any links attached within the email) and log in and see if WoW is available for download.
a WoW scam email tries to get one thing out of you and that is your password. and they do it by getting you to click on their link and have you log in except the sites are like www.battlenet.net or something stupid like that .
As a person who plays both WoW (Namkung - Mal'Ganis) and SC2 a lot, i have received countless scam emails from "blizzard" telling me things like I was being banned if i didnt log in or even better i remember when I got an email telling me i had received cataclysm beta and so I should log in on this site when I had already gotten it (lol).
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Not that big of a reward, considering anyone can get 10 days for free so your really just getting 20 days as your reward. But anyways, you cant be mad at free I guess.
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On February 13 2011 20:36 coddan wrote:
Let me get this straight. You receive a completely free game, no strings attached, and complain that you didn't get more?
The complaint is that this deal is completely pointless. To be honest, if they gave me 30 days free with all expos included I'd probably actually take the deal, and maybe even subscribe for a month or 2 afterwards. But this "free" offer is really only 20 days free, 10 days free is standard, you could jsut make a trial account.
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wait, he said "CEO & President of money sucking company bla bla bla."
Um, doesn't seem legit o.o
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correct me if I am wrong but this is also different from a free 10 days trial you can get in that you do NOT have to buy the world of warcraft original whereas for the 10 days trial you still do. (and yes it's probably dirt cheap now but that's besides the point)
also there is 0 chance that blizzard would give out to anyone all the expansions of WoW . it would be like blizzard randomly offering a bunch of active WoW players free SC2 copy . it's just not going to happen.
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On February 14 2011 00:33 TotalBiscuit wrote:Show nested quote +On February 14 2011 00:20 MuteZephyr wrote:On February 13 2011 23:56 TotalBiscuit wrote:
Anyone within the gaming community that legitimately thinks WoW is some kind of addictive drug is a fucking idiot so one has to either assume that, or the use of ridiculous hyperbole which shouldn't be taken seriously anyway. I would beg to differ. Not everyone has the same reaction to WoW, I tried it and got bored after 3 hours or so, but I know people who have lost their job or dropped out of school partially or entirely because of the obscene amount of time they sank into the game. It's their own fault of course, and won't happen to many people, but I've never seen another game that has had this strong of an effect on peoples' social lives. The stigma is around for a reason, and for some people bears a striking resemblance to drug addiction. Regardless, got the same email, it's legit. I got all excited too, like maybe I would get flagged for D3 beta, or I would get some fancy portrait.  Plenty of games have this effect now and have that effect in the past. Everquest did it, MUDs did it before Everquest, Elite did it before MUDs, Farmville does it now, just to name a few and the one thing all of those games have in common is that they all have persistent worlds with no definable end. I don't believe any of those games cynically manipulated their players to play more (and as I've said in the past from a business perspective, loads of people playing for long periods is a bad thing, it increases the cost of running the game, the ideal customer is someone who subs and barely ever plays, kinda like how an ISP works with 'acceptable use'). Is it possible for people with addictive personalities to get sucked into these games because they have no actual end? Yeah sure, just like any other hobby with no definable end, though games are fairly uncommon in that aspect. Is the game designed to be addictive? Absolutely not and the irrational fear of it is the kind of sensationalism that smacks of mainstream media pandering and isn't becoming of well-informed gaming communities.
A hobby does not change your brain chemistry. From my own experience of playing WoW and having addictive personality disorder this game did change how my brain immensely to the point of being completely phase out with a horrible short term memory. You're unlikely to ever understand this in your lifetime because you don't have that brain disease. Some people do though.
I would definitely agree that the game is not designed to be addictive. It is designed to be fun, though i can't help but feel that when they were making WoW that they knew there was a good chance their game was going to be addictive.
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On February 14 2011 02:21 acidfreak wrote:Show nested quote +On February 13 2011 20:36 coddan wrote:
Let me get this straight. You receive a completely free game, no strings attached, and complain that you didn't get more? No strings attached? You forgot the part where you need to buy 3 more expansions to actually play the real game, not to mention the subscription fees after 30 days. It's like saying LoL is free and no strings attached... oh but you need to buy heroes to actually do something. Sad how the gaming world has degenerated into a milk fest.
There is no need to buy anything. You don't have to do anything at all with it if you don't want to.
Only one single thing has happened here. OP has received a free game, end of story (assuming it's actually a real offer). If he wants to pick up all of the expansions and play everything, he has received a sizeable discount. How is that ever a bad thing?
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It's legit. I was logged into Bnet already through the SC2 site, clicked the button, added it to my account, downloaded & played a bit. Not really interested in WoW, I hate the game, but it's free so I'll play for a while. You guy's are way too aggressive and honestly it's your own fault if you can't control your gaming life.
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MMO's ruin the lives of those people who have poor social interactions. i met a very pretty, talented and intelligent girl who could be working as a pharmacist for a drug company.
but all she does sadly is stay home and play wow when she could have a 6 fix salary, no drivers license at 25
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Titan early access would've been better.. still its wow 4 free... WTB vanilla 40man MC raid when the strats were unknown..
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On February 14 2011 02:21 acidfreak wrote:Show nested quote +On February 13 2011 20:36 coddan wrote:
Let me get this straight. You receive a completely free game, no strings attached, and complain that you didn't get more? No strings attached? You forgot the part where you need to buy 3 more expansions to actually play the real game, not to mention the subscription fees after 30 days. It's like saying LoL is free and no strings attached... oh but you need to buy heroes to actually do something. Sad how the gaming world has degenerated into a milk fest.
This gift gives you the vanilla WoW which you don't get with other trial offers (in other trial offers you actually have to buy vanilla WoW after the trial expires if you want to purchase a subscription) which goes for $10-15 in stores if you can find it.
Let's compare player X with player Y:
Player X goes out and buys vanilla WoW, BC, WotLK, and Cataclysm, heads home and installs everything and starts playing the game.
Player Y got this email we're talking about and downloads the client and starts playing.
Guess what up to level 60 both players are experiencing the exact same thing, and depending on how much time they spend on leveling it could take them months to get to 60. I don't know but to me that doesn't sound like they're not getting the real game.
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Hey guys, I just got a package from Blizzard with 1 peice of crack in it!!!
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On February 14 2011 02:19 stroggos wrote:Show nested quote +On February 14 2011 01:53 cnas wrote:
Many people call this business strategy immoral, and that they just try to get you hooked on something's that's bad for you. This conception, that it's ALWAYS the big bad businesses that's currupting the friendly customers, is annoying me for several reasons:
First of all, why can't people do some research and make clever decisions anymore? There's a huge discussion in Sweden right now about young people using bad loan deals (Sms-lån) to get money fast, but they don't get that they can't afford it in the long run. And it's the COMPANIES, providing this service, that gets the blame, when it SHOULD be the retards that uses the loans.
Secondly, anything in our society can become an addiction. Drinking gallons of coke every day is bad for your health, as is bad eating habits. The same thing goes with things like WoW, or SC2, or any other hobbies you do. Doing things in moderation is the way to go. And please, if you get a free sample or anything, be it coke or WoW or anything else, don't fucking blame the companies if YOU can't understand how to use this in moderation. Bring back some demands on the customer, aswell as the companies. I would agree with this opinion so long as they put a disclaimer on the game cover that says the game may cause you to turn into a massive no life game addict.
Are you serious? The GAME does not do anything, its just a game and if you cant handle a game with responsibility then maybe you shouldnt play the game.
If you're some socially awkward nerd playing a game all day without leaving your home or meeting people it probably has nothing at all to do with the game but rather you as a person.
Take away WoW from the nerd and he will find another game he can play.
I just dont understand all the whining in this thread. Blizzard gives you a game+30 days for free, (worth about 20-25$) and all you can do is whine that you didnt get cataclysm or whatever. Its a gift, that means its FREE. Noone is forcing you to play the game. If your grandmother gives you the ugliest sweater imaginable for christmas you dont shove it in her face and tell her to fuck off, no, you thank her for the gift, put it on until she leaves and then you take it off and put it away.
Obviously recieving gifts from relatives is different than from some multibilliondollar company, but the principle is still the same, ITS FREE SO JUST TAKE IT AND SHUT THE FUCK UP.
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hahah I love this strat from blizzard, not enough money from sc2? GET THEM ONTO WOW.
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I got this email too, even though I already had WoW registered to my Battle.net account. Seems odd.
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Well anyone in their right mind wouldn't stop playing SC2 for WoW, so anyone who does so is more than expendable to the community 
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I received this email also and I wasn't in the beta, but bought the game and registered it on launch day. I checked and I do have the ability to download WoW and the PTR, which I will likely never do but hey, it's free stuff so that's cool. Though it is like a crack dealer giving out free samples.
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Fuck blizzard for giving me something for free. I am literally a child.
Also fuck valve for giving me portal for free what a bunch of money grubbing cocks.
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didn't get this as well, but maybe its cuz i already have cata -____-
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