Thanks a lot for being an early supporter of StarCraft II. The community is off to a great start, with over four million players worldwide and I'm pleased to report that the rumors of the death of real-time-strategy gaming have been greatly exaggerated.
As a thank you for your early support, I've flagged your Battle.net account to receive a free, downloadable copy of World of Warcraft. This is the full version of World of Warcraft that we sell in store and includes a 30-day subscription. Just follow the instructions below to activate it, download the game, and start playing. Again, it's totally free.
I'd also be interested in hearing any feedback you may have aboutStarCraft II: what was fun, what we could make better, etc. So if you have any thoughts, please send them along to SC2-feedback@blizzard.com.
I know i would absolutely love playing it but there is no way that it would not result in me being completely sucked in and thus I've been avoiding it like the plague ever since it launched. And here it is 1 click aways... Stay away!
@Rallier: If it aint a scam you may send it to me since I have never even tried playing wow :p Otherwise can't steam put a timer on your playtime so the game will be shut down whenever you reach the limit guess you would have to give your parents control over your account for it to work though.
"Thank you for destroying the productivity of an entire nation. We sent you this cocaine as a thank you. Come get it, it's only one click away buddy..."
You should totally try it out though. I went from 1-85 in like 4 days and it was my time playing the game. I gave it up a month later. It's not a bad game by any means, but I couldn't find a guild that suited me enough that I wanted to stay in for the long haul.
@JoMate: Unfortunately it is tied to my "blizzard account" so i can't move it over. WoW actually has built in parent control i believe. Still putting myself under parent control would be a bit silly, i'd just deactivate it.
@PrimeSynergy: "Fortunately" my download speed is relatively low so even if I cracked the "download will be complete in 2 weeks" will turn me off the idea of just trying it out rather quickly. There are so many things already that I allow myself to be distracted by already that WoW would be the final nail in my coffin.
I'm a big Blizzard fanboy from way back but WoW never got it's hooks into me. I played up to LVL20 for a couple character classes but got bored when I couldn't effectively solo anymore. Neocron.... now that was an MMO.
Not that I'm saying to go play WoW again but they completely changed all the "old world" content (1 - 60) with the Cataclysm release regardless of what version of the game you have. I've got to say, it's infinitely better and made the entire game a lot more approachable as a whole. I've leveled a bunch of characters and know the exact grind you guys are talking about. That's all been changed and reworked, it's actually pretty fun to fly through the old world content now. Of course, that might have been because I was trying out one of the two classes I hadn't leveled up yet and was having a blast with it.
Agreed, I remember playing the game at release and getting bored around level 25 or so and quit (Too much downtime, a lot harder to solo + Warrior was simply not very fun back then) until a little under a year ago. Now I play it occasionally and with about 2 days playtime I'm level 66 which is hella fast for an mmo
The new WoW Client will have an initial download and then start streaming the rest of it as you play so if your download speeds aren't the best you can probably still try it out. I still have an active WoW account, but mostly because you can find farmers that will trade you gold for game time codes and gold isn't that hard to come by anymore. I just log on once a week to raid and once a week to pvp in arena matches with friends. That's the only time I find it fun because it's mostly just a time to talk to friends on vent/skype while we play the game. And if you get sweet sweet purples or beat a good team in arenas it just makes it that much more fun.
To me, the subscription fee has always been the barrier to playing. $15-20/month for one game is too much for me, although I could stomach paying $5. Then again, it's probably better the way it is, because I waste enough time already with games that don't have subscription fees...
I know i would absolutely love playing it but there is no way that it would not result in me being completely sucked in and thus I've been avoiding it like the plague ever since it launched. And here it is 1 click aways... Stay away!
If it aint a scam you may send it to me since I have never even tried playing wow :p Otherwise can't steam put a timer on your playtime so the game will be shut down whenever you reach the limit guess you would have to give your parents control over your account for it to work though.
You should totally try it out though. I went from 1-85 in like 4 days and it was my time playing the game. I gave it up a month later. It's not a bad game by any means, but I couldn't find a guild that suited me enough that I wanted to stay in for the long haul.
WoW actually has built in parent control i believe. Still putting myself under parent control would be a bit silly, i'd just deactivate it.
@PrimeSynergy: "Fortunately" my download speed is relatively low so even if I cracked the "download will be complete in 2 weeks" will turn me off the idea of just trying it out rather quickly. There are so many things already that I allow myself to be distracted by already that WoW would be the final nail in my coffin.
Neocron.... now that was an MMO.
It just got.
So.
Freekin.
Boring.
Not that I'm saying to go play WoW again but they completely changed all the "old world" content (1 - 60) with the Cataclysm release regardless of what version of the game you have. I've got to say, it's infinitely better and made the entire game a lot more approachable as a whole. I've leveled a bunch of characters and know the exact grind you guys are talking about. That's all been changed and reworked, it's actually pretty fun to fly through the old world content now. Of course, that might have been because I was trying out one of the two classes I hadn't leveled up yet and was having a blast with it.
I still have an active WoW account, but mostly because you can find farmers that will trade you gold for game time codes and gold isn't that hard to come by anymore. I just log on once a week to raid and once a week to pvp in arena matches with friends. That's the only time I find it fun because it's mostly just a time to talk to friends on vent/skype while we play the game. And if you get sweet sweet purples or beat a good team in arenas it just makes it that much more fun.