You get Diablo 3 for FREE, the Online portion of the game is FREE also ( just like Diablo 1 and 2). Game retails at 59.99 (retail price given by different websites) but as some said could be cheaper elsewhere.
You get into the Mist of Pandaria Expansion Beta (once it is announced and you need a battle.net account for that), you can still decide to buy or not the expansion once it is released.
You can pay per month, 3-months or 6-months plans with the Annual promo, you cannot cancel before the end of the annual promo though.
Last thing, if you did not have a WoW account before OCt 18th and had a plan (same as above but you can always make one again) You cannot take this promotion.
I read the Blizz FAQ a bunch of times to make sure I got it right.
I think they only did this because Blizzard knows how neurotic their players are...they know we play inanse amounts of wow or starcraft and they're woried that many players would pause they're WoW game time while playing diablo 3 ninche until they come back to wow after 6 or so months...they had to do this plan to keep subscribers and not use hundreds of millions on 6-year game time of lost subs.
I still find it funny that anyone can look at this as an act of "Desperation". I will not argue that it is a response to what is to come, no doubt...but desperation? Even if WoW dropped to 5 Mil subs...guess what, it's still the most popular P2P MMO out today. I won't argue the point of the deal, as people have already stated, it's not for everyone and it's optional.
On a side note, to the people who are worried about the twelve year old's from WoW in other games. I don't know if you have played anything recent lately...but they are everywhere. SWTOR, guess who is in BETA right now, and go ahead and guess how the general chat is.... If you play anything vastly popular now a days, you are going to be dealing with that stuff, and the funniest part, it isn't even really 12 year olds anymore. You are dealing with the general public, and sad to say it, but most people in their 20's act worse than any of the 12-14 year olds I have met.
If you play anything vastly popular now a days, you are going to be dealing with that stuff, and the funniest part, it isn't even really 12 year olds anymore. You are dealing with the general public, and sad to say it, but most people in their 20's act worse than any of the 12-14 year olds I have met.
I don't know about "most" people in their 20s, but otherwise I agree here; there are a lot of 20 and even 30-year old spoiled brats playing these games, it's just sad. Game companies could hardly care less about it too.
Have played: Everquest, Asheron's Call, Horizons, Everquest2, World of Warcraft, Lord of the Rings Online, Warhammer, Age of Conan, Darkfall
This is a good move...My friends and I took Annual Pass and it will keep us from trying other sub-based games like SW:TOR for example. (We are gona buy GW2 coz its B2P)
Its a good deal coz we wanted to buy diablo 3 anyways and we r playing WoW atm
It does allow them to flaunt their subscription numbers for a year after the expansion. Not that Blizzard needs more money, obviously, since they are giving Diablo 3 away for free. It looks like a huge commitment to maintaining sub numbers. This will give fanbois something to cheer about for another 12 months. I guess they are commited to continue to be the King of the Hill for sub numbers.
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It seems that things are not clear to some.
You get Diablo 3 for FREE, the Online portion of the game is FREE also ( just like Diablo 1 and 2). Game retails at 59.99 (retail price given by different websites) but as some said could be cheaper elsewhere.
You get into the Mist of Pandaria Expansion Beta (once it is announced and you need a battle.net account for that), you can still decide to buy or not the expansion once it is released.
You can pay per month, 3-months or 6-months plans with the Annual promo, you cannot cancel before the end of the annual promo though.
Last thing, if you did not have a WoW account before OCt 18th and had a plan (same as above but you can always make one again) You cannot take this promotion.
I read the Blizz FAQ a bunch of times to make sure I got it right.
I think they only did this because Blizzard knows how neurotic their players are...they know we play inanse amounts of wow or starcraft and they're woried that many players would pause they're WoW game time while playing diablo 3 ninche until they come back to wow after 6 or so months...they had to do this plan to keep subscribers and not use hundreds of millions on 6-year game time of lost subs.
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I still find it funny that anyone can look at this as an act of "Desperation". I will not argue that it is a response to what is to come, no doubt...but desperation? Even if WoW dropped to 5 Mil subs...guess what, it's still the most popular P2P MMO out today. I won't argue the point of the deal, as people have already stated, it's not for everyone and it's optional.
On a side note, to the people who are worried about the twelve year old's from WoW in other games. I don't know if you have played anything recent lately...but they are everywhere. SWTOR, guess who is in BETA right now, and go ahead and guess how the general chat is.... If you play anything vastly popular now a days, you are going to be dealing with that stuff, and the funniest part, it isn't even really 12 year olds anymore. You are dealing with the general public, and sad to say it, but most people in their 20's act worse than any of the 12-14 year olds I have met.
I don't know about "most" people in their 20s, but otherwise I agree here; there are a lot of 20 and even 30-year old spoiled brats playing these games, it's just sad. Game companies could hardly care less about it too.
Have played: Everquest, Asheron's Call, Horizons, Everquest2, World of Warcraft, Lord of the Rings Online, Warhammer, Age of Conan, Darkfall
This is a good move...My friends and I took Annual Pass and it will keep us from trying other sub-based games like SW:TOR for example. (We are gona buy GW2 coz its B2P)
Its a good deal coz we wanted to buy diablo 3 anyways and we r playing WoW atm
Good marketing . . .
It does allow them to flaunt their subscription numbers for a year after the expansion. Not that Blizzard needs more money, obviously, since they are giving Diablo 3 away for free. It looks like a huge commitment to maintaining sub numbers. This will give fanbois something to cheer about for another 12 months. I guess they are commited to continue to be the King of the Hill for sub numbers.
Gaming since Avalon Hill was making board games.
Played SWG, EVE, Fallen Earth, LOTRO, Rift, Vanguard, WoW, SWTOR, TSW, Tera
Tried Aoc, Aion, EQII, RoM, Vindictus, Darkfail, DDO, GW, PotBS