Come Back To WoW, Get Free Cataclysm Upgrade
Blizzard's new campaign allows a subscriber to "resurrect" old friends. Subscribers receive a mount while the friend gets a Cataclysm upgrade and more.
Are you a World of Warcraft junkie, and you miss your friend trolling the fields and mountains of Azeroth by your side? Blizzard is now offering an incentive for both the current player and previous subscriber thanks to a handy new Scroll of Resurrection.
According to Blizzard, when a current subscriber signs on an old friend, he/she will receive a Spectral Gryphon mount for an Alliance character, or a Spectral Wind Rider mount for a Horde character. This will be granted once the friend pays for a new 30-day subscription that the very least.
As for the returning friend, they get a sweet deal including:
* A single character immediately boosted all the way to level 80 -- DING!
* A FREE upgrade to Cataclysm regardless of the friend’s original box level.
* An optional FREE character move to the subscriber's realm and faction so they can play together.
* 7 FREE days of game time which is available immediately.
Current subscribers can send a friend the Scroll of Resurrection email by clicking here. Subscribers can also invite a friend via the World of Warcraft in-game friends list or guild roster. To accept and use the Scroll of Resurrection, the friend must meet the eligibility requirements including a prior subscription to World of Warcraft for at least 30 days, an inactive account on or before March 4, 2012, and more.
Hey, it's Apple Day. What better way to celebrate than to drag an old buddy back into World of Warcraft.
Either way, this should help open the game to more people who are scared away at the task of leveling from 1 to 85.
And what a people suppose to come back to Blizzard? You have no new content coming out for this expansion, you already said Dragon Soul would be the last. Doesn't the game have enough level 80+ characters running around that can not play their class because the leveling is so easy and fast now?
As a former player this would not entice me back. It sounds like an indirect way of selling in game items, something they said they would never do.
Blizz, you want people to come back? Then put the Warcraft back into World of Warcraft. For two straight expansions you have delivered less than half the content you talked about in the betas. Cataclysm was even much worse than Wrath. Three content updates, one of which was just rehashed 5 persons that were old raids just to bring back mounts into the game.
Where was Kul Tiras? Where was Danath returning from Outland to confront Sylvanas over what she did to his nephew? Where was the conflict between the Argent Crusade and The Forsaken about the Forsaken replaguing areas that the Crusade has been cleansing? Where was the resolution to what happened in Andorhol? All these things, and a lot more, you said would be in this expansion and none of them showed up.
Ever since you started trying to cater to the Farmville/Angry Bird casuals, which by the way is about the time Vivendi made Bobby Kotick CEO of Activision Blizzard, WoW has stagnated. BC ended with 11.5 million subs. The only bump seen since BC ended was in China after the august 2010 release of Wrath there, and they had been on BC for nearly 4 years and they rejected Wrath pretty quickly. Not to mention that's not the place you expect to find the "casuals" that seems to be the desired market even over the Warcraft fan.
And not only has WoW stagnated, but the comics and magazine have been cancelled. The novels' sales have been bad. I think it's obvious that the Warcraft fan is leaving.
You want players back? Get the story back in. Stop with the little gimmicks that might give a few days worth of use but won't solve the problem long term.
Either way, this should help open the game to more people who are scared away at the task of leveling from 1 to 85.
And what a people suppose to come back to Blizzard? You have no new content coming out for this expansion, you already said Dragon Soul would be the last. Doesn't the game have enough level 80+ characters running around that can not play their class because the leveling is so easy and fast now?
As a former player this would not entice me back. It sounds like an indirect way of selling in game items, something they said they would never do.
Blizz, you want people to come back? Then put the Warcraft back into World of Warcraft. For two straight expansions you have delivered less than half the content you talked about in the betas. Cataclysm was even much worse than Wrath. Three content updates, one of which was just rehashed 5 persons that were old raids just to bring back mounts into the game.
Where was Kul Tiras? Where was Danath returning from Outland to confront Sylvanas over what she did to his nephew? Where was the conflict between the Argent Crusade and The Forsaken about the Forsaken replaguing areas that the Crusade has been cleansing? Where was the resolution to what happened in Andorhol? All these things, and a lot more, you said would be in this expansion and none of them showed up.
Ever since you started trying to cater to the Farmville/Angry Bird casuals, which by the way is about the time Vivendi made Bobby Kotick CEO of Activision Blizzard, WoW has stagnated. BC ended with 11.5 million subs. The only bump seen since BC ended was in China after the august 2010 release of Wrath there, and they had been on BC for nearly 4 years and they rejected Wrath pretty quickly. Not to mention that's not the place you expect to find the "casuals" that seems to be the desired market even over the Warcraft fan.
And not only has WoW stagnated, but the comics and magazine have been cancelled. The novels' sales have been bad. I think it's obvious that the Warcraft fan is leaving.
You want players back? Get the story back in. Stop with the little gimmicks that might give a few days worth of use but won't solve the problem long term.
This was before it became a breeze levelling, Then I spent even longer to get all decked out in full epic pvp season 1 gear, Just as I complete the set you virtually give it out to all the noobs for not even half the effort and release season 2,Thanks for shiiting in my face!
The whole point of the game is to "EARN IT",Half the fun is getting there, Not being max level straight away with mounts and gear.
You shoot yourself in the foot by giving away stuff easily, MMO's fun is levelling, If people are already on the high end content why would they bother playing any longer.
A true next gen mmo cash cow would have not 50 levels not 100 levels but hundreds or possibly even infinite levels to keep people hooked on being the best, Want to keep playing to reach even higher levels and have more power,godlike!
Reward those players who have been there the longest,Just like real life in a workplace,Longer you have been there the more benefits,long service leave or payout you are gonna get!
Maybe your pass was stolen and somebody actually used it that way.
No wonder they had to sack 600 people.
If they want to keep peeple playing they need to adjust thier monthly premium.
I would keep my account up and consider playing here and there if it was $5 a month.
But $15? No way.
I'll check out the new zones when Pandaria hits but after that I'll turn my account back off.