Does not change the fact that you have to buy four games and a sub just to play it past that level.

I think everyone who will be WoW die-hards... already are.

That said, it's kind of cool. I might try it out.

@HaVoK308

You're not exaggerating. Don't do it. Everyone who starts WoW thinks they're strong enough to resist the addiction. You're not. No one is. It's a soul-sucking pit of despair. I'm not just saying this because I'm trying to sound smart or jump on the "wow players have no life" bandwagon. I played for a little over three years, and I'll never get those three years of my life back.

Just quit, finally, about a month ago. One month sober. Taking it a day at a time.

I've tried a WoW trial period three seperate times.

Not once did I bother playing all 14 (or whatever) days. Lost interest several hours in.

Aw that's the expansion I already bought. I was thinking about playing WoW with my gf maybe... She has a very limited interest in video games, doesn't like to be challenge much during her relaxation time. It's tough to think of something beyond Kirby's Epic Yarn. This free to play cap saves me finding another copy to test her interest and I want to see the cataclysm changes.

I really enjoyed the time I spend in WoW back in the day but the sub fee pissed me off. Also it used all my spare time and I hate not clearing my back catalog of games.

Ehhh.....WoW isn't my thang. It gets very repetitive and ends up becoming a chore. Which,as you might have already guessed,isn't very fun.

I don't see what the big deal is about WoW. Tried it. The graphics were dated when it released and it has repetitive gameplay that you could get from any F2P MMO. BOOOOOORRRRIIIINNNG.

Hmm.. I wonder what sorts of effects this might have on the game's economy? Free to play and subscription based economies are very different. What will happen when worlds collide? HEAVEN OR HELL! DO OR DIE!

Okay, but really, I think this is a godsend for gold farmers.

Everyone who thinks they will get addicted to wow don't worry. My parents have wow an I play sometimes but it isn't addicting. I only play for 1 or 2 hours a week and sometimes don't play for months. But call of duty, that's addicting

WoW has changed a lot in this newest expansion. They basically gave their entire casual fan base a big FU and a middle finger. They brought back almost a million players when they released the expansion and have already lost them and a bit more due to how crappy the expansion is. If you want to know what is so crappy about it, they took away the casual's ability to raid successfully, they took away casuals abilities to complete a 4 piece tier set without completely beating a raid zone and wining a token, which is screwed up by the fact that raids were nearly unfinishable by casual players.

There are tons of other problems, but no point going nuts. Its a good game, but unless you want to devote a ton of time to it, I wouldn't bother. In the grand scheme of things, the only reason most people play nowadays is friends. Without those, the game has nothing to keep a person there unless they are in a high end raiding guild.

I will give this a solid "meh." I played WoW for about one month. That did it for me.

Suddenly, Twinks! Twinks everywhere!

WoW is growing tired. I cant tolerate 40 min ques nor the A holes one is forced to play with. There's been more class re-balancing in and out of percentages than I care for. Been there and done that for too many years as it is.

Not sure what you are going on about, only people who get shore que times are tanks and healers. If you don't play them, then you are sol most of the time unless you play around 5 am est, in which case a dps will get around 12 to 15 min ques.

I would play wow again if it was free to play... i've bought all expansions and leveled through them... done some pvp... a bit of arena... did raiding back in tbc and vanilla and am not interested in it anymore.

But if its free to play i'll log in every now and then... its just not worth me keeping a subscription up for imo.

@Tristrix
I know that feel, bro.

I'm about 3 years clean. People actually play it sometimes and flat out call it the dumbest thing they've ever seen. This version is crippled, so I doubt that will improve matters. Someday it will die, son, just keep the faith.

I'm a former player (and was from launch til January of this year) and heres the deal on this:

The trial let you play to 20 (didn't ALWAYS let you, prior to a change towards that it was level 10), the only change being made here is that they took away the 10+ day time restriction to do so -which is an obvious grab at casual players (whom I'm positive they lost during Cataclysms release, the newest expanstion isn't casual friendly -Hell, in my case it wasn't even "hardcore, long time fan" friendly)

Additionally they're allowing you to start Draenai and Blood Elf characters in the trial now-which is something they never allowed trial players to do before, seeing as those 2 races require you to have The Burning Crusade expansion (which is now being included in the bundle mentioned)

@Tristrix

After playing for 6 years or so myself, when I quit it was like weight was lifted off of me.. A REALLY huge weight. I've honestly have never been happier. Sure, I went and started to play Rift, and I'm actually (and have been for a long time) waiting out The Old Republic, but I don't feel nearly as tied to Rift as I ever did playing WoW. I can go a week or 2 not playing Rift and I couldn't care less.

lol, can you make a lvl 19 for pvp and turn off leveling?

jesus cristo this game sucked years from my life. Pretty much one of the best games ever made imo. Oh the references! The gameplay! The possibilities! My first and probably last mmo, no others will compare to it. Glad I stopped a couple years ago, right after the first expansion...it was more fun when there were people leveling up for the first time, now it is just an alt-fest

It's great that TBC is bundled with the original game, but why isn't Wrath, too? There's absolutely no point in paying for an expansion whose content you will never see beyond the quest zones so the only point it serves is to bar people from the latest content, which they also have to pay for. They lowered the total price from $90-100 to $80. Goody. That's still way more expensive than it should be.