WoW's Scroll of Resurrection

Dbknn

This is taken from the wow homepage

"The Scroll of Resurrection is a new version of the Recruit-A-Friend program you can use to invite previous subscribers to return to World of Warcraft. Each invitation you email to a friend contains a link to download and try The Burning Crusade for 10 Days FREE. For every friend who returns to the game through your Scroll of Resurrection invitation and then re-subscribes to the game with a paid subscription, you will receive one FREE month of World of Warcraft game time. Click here to visit the Scroll of Resurrection page in Account Management and start resurrecting your friends!"       www.worldofwarcraft.com/index.xml

 

Anyone find this kind of odd? Do companies often do this when they are amassing huge subscriber bases or do they often do these things when they start to see a decline? i cant say im too sure i believe blizzards stated subscriber numbers.

 

paulscott

they do it whenever they want.  in this case getting people ready for the increase of level cap to 80, it would be just to much for most people to have to essentially skip the burning crusade expansion and only use it to level up... after all we know the raid gear will all be useless thus they will never get to use the REAL content of the burning crusade(the raids) since noone will be doing them.

 

basically it's blizzard saying, this is your last chance for the burning crusade for anything but leveling up to 70 so you can use our next expansion.

Nicoli

you know that brings up a interesting question on what happens if you only buy the new expansion and not BC?

 

edit: and yeah I do find it odd to give a player a full month added to his subscription for each person returned this way.

Liddokun

You'd probably have to buy BOTH TBC and WRATH.. because since the expansion is a further upgrade from 70 to 80 (there are no lower level areas) there won't be an option NOT to buy TBC. Maybe Blizzard will probably do something like make TBC included in it for those that don't have TBC.

littlestar12

If they follow the example of Everquest II, all previous expansions are included in the latest one. After a couple of expansions it would otherwise get prohibitively expensive for a newcomer.