See the Movie, Get WoW Up Through Warlords & More

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See the Movie, Get WoW Up Through Warlords & More

Folks heading out to see the Warcraft movie will have incentive to check out World of Warcraft when they're through. Four transmog items, a month of free game time and WoW + all expansions through Warlords of Draenor will be gifted to those attending the cinema.

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Sirmatthias

genius, pure genius

tawess

Will most likely be US only promotion... As usual.

HellCaster

The staff is awesome!

tawess

Aori said:

tawess said:

Will most likely be US only promotion... As usual.

So far it is France only.

https://kinepolis.fr/conditions-warcraft

Well that fills me with some hope =P 

filmoret

Sirmatthias said:

genius, pure genius

Giving away their game for free and a 1 month sub.  Means they are getting desperate.

exile01

Aint gona watch even if they gave 3 months and all xpacks.

Myria

[insert pointless Blizzard and WoW bashing here]

tawess

filmoret said:

Giving away their game for free and a 1 month sub.  Means they are getting desperate.

Dont know... Maybe more a way to get arses in the seats and lure back some people who left before WoD. =P

But desperate... It is not like they think they will ever get back to the glory days, the game is old and and on the way in to the sunset. 

Octagon7711

So they're already giving out a free week. You could tack that on and get 5 weeks of game play and a free level 90 boost. I probably will go see it.

winghaven1

filmoret said:

Sirmatthias said:

genius, pure genius

Giving away their game for free and a 1 month sub.  Means they are getting desperate.

It's a marketing strategy. Trust me, I'm not a big fan of WoW. But any MMORPG would use that chance to get in more customers. It's just how it works and trust me, it will work for them. Their revenue will skyrocket and the world will be huge. Question is whether they can keep them longer than a month...

Sovrath

filmoret said:

Sirmatthias said:

genius, pure genius

Giving away their game for free and a 1 month sub.  Means they are getting desperate.

Probably not desperate at all. They are most likely taking advantage of some sort of marketing synergy. Why wouldn't they?

The World of Warcraft movie is a 2+ hour advertisement to their game. Some people who see it will not be WoW players let alone "gamers" at all. 

It piques their interest, there is a low barrier to entry with free game time, "why not?" they say.

Why wouldn't a company take advantage of that type of advertising? They would be stupid not to.

cronius77

my issue is as soon as the movie and game time burn out they will be announcing some bullshit lie saying they have 10 million active subs again like they always conveniently do. MArketing things is great, its how businesses stay afloat and are successful but marketing spin afterwards will remind me to much of this election race in the states.

knightaudit

I hope this is not just a US only promotion ... where we Canadians get the short end of the Stick.

SBFord

SedrynTyros said:

Myria said:

[insert pointless Blizzard and WoW bashing here]

[insert unwarranted defense of Blizzard and WoW here]

As a fan of vanilla WoW, I'm assuming the movie has appeal for you, yes? If you don't want the game time, etc., pitch the ticket stub and BOOM! Done!

I'm going, though without making any comparisons to the game other than vague names from lore. The script has abused the cannon so I'll separate myself from that, go to the Fork & Screen and enjoy it "as is".

SBFord

knightaudit said:

I hope this is not just a US only promotion ... where we Canadians get the short end of the Stick.

The original story came out of France so it seems it's either going to be regional or perhaps even worldwide.

tawess

Well what speaks for it being at least more than one country is that Blizzard would never bury that much money to make entirely new models for a single country promotion.  

Deltois

Desperate, that's hilarious. This is a brilliant marketing ploy. Even if they kept 1% of the total going to see the movie for 1 month extra and pay for that sub, that will be huge cash. Not sure how desperation comes in.

Distopia

filmoret said:

Sirmatthias said:

genius, pure genius

Giving away their game for free and a 1 month sub.  Means they are getting desperate.

*shakes head*


Decade old game still doing better than any other in the genre (better than any ever have, outside of Asia), desperation indeed.....

Volgore

I think that's a good move on their end. IF this happens to apply to my country as well, i will go and watch the movie in a cinema -and i'm far from thrilled by what i've seen in the trailer.

And i'm also saying that although i know that i will probably have to go to the cinema and watch it all alone -because not even my imaginary friends would want to watch the movie.

If it remains France or whereever only, i will download the movie over and over again and hope it sends a serious warning to Blizzard!!!1

On a sidenote: I'm also wondering why nobody in this thread has left a "that's a first step to F2P" comment yet.

knightaudit

SBFord said:

knightaudit said:

I hope this is not just a US only promotion ... where we Canadians get the short end of the Stick.

The original story came out of France so it seems it's either going to be regional or perhaps even worldwide.

When Microsoft released Windows 10 - Cortana was available in Brittan, the US, France, and a number of other counties ... not Canada ... Who thought we have that different of a vocabulary .. Hence my skepticism ..... eh

wormed

This movie will be awful. Not even free WoW would ever get me to waste money on this upcoming atrocity.

Sephiroso

wormed said:

This movie will be awful. Not even free WoW would ever get me to waste money on this upcoming atrocity.

quoting you so i know to make sure you eat your words if it turns out to be a major success. And regardless if the movie will be good or not, it's gonna make Blizzard millions lol.

Octagon7711

Volgore said:

I think that's a good move on their end. IF this happens to apply to my country as well, i will go and watch the movie in a cinema -and i'm far from thrilled by what i've seen in the trailer.



And i'm also saying that although i know that i will probably have to go to the cinema and watch it all alone -because not even my imaginary friends would want to watch the movie.



If it remains France or whereever only, i will download the movie over and over again and hope it sends a serious warning to Blizzard!!!1



On a sidenote: I'm also wondering why nobody in this thread has left a "that's a first step to F2P" comment yet.

They already have a Trial Edition that's f2p to level 20. ^^

Ammon777_new

Im not gonna bother with the movie until its $5.00 in the bargain bin.

I play WoW though. Im more interested in Star Wars and Indiana Jones.

gervaise1

tawess said:

filmoret said:

Giving away their game for free and a 1 month sub.  Means they are getting desperate.

Dont know... Maybe more a way to get arses in the seats and lure back some people who left before WoD. =P

But desperate... It is not like they think they will ever get back to the glory days, the game is old and and on the way in to the sunset. 

I go with desperate. Not insofar as subs go but regarding box office. And as the report surfaced in France: go go Asterix (new film due out).