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Free 14-Trial Requires Credit Card Lolz $20 charge
bortiis
Member Posts: 16
This game sounded interesting, so I went to sign-up for the "free 14-day trial". It requires you enter a credit card that will charge you $20 (more than the normal monthly fee) and then start charging the regular fee. The only way to avoid the charges is if you login and manage to cancel your account within 14 days. Rather than make it simply deny you access when the time is up, you have to rely on them to ensure your account is deactivated before the 14-days. lolz.
If you cancel after 15 days, they still get about 2-months worth of payment from you anyways doh. losers.
With so many other "true" free-trials or just plain ol' free MMORPGS I thought this was rather lousy of them. If a free-trial is free i aint given them anything they can charge lolz. dont trust anyone, sorry. hahahah.
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hahaha same here, but im sure they are betting on ppl forgetting about the 14 days and still getting money if they cancel anyways. you'd think ppl would think the game is so bad arse that they would go "darn no more access cuz of 14 days. it was so great i will buy a monthly subscription!"
marketing-wise, WWII Online is in a sense saying subtlely,"Our game will probably suck, so make sure you cancel within 14 days if you don't want to get charged for $20!"
or
"Let's at least make sure we charge them a special charge bigger than the normal monthly fee in case they quit us after 14-days, cuz in the past alot ppl have signed up, found it sucked, and quit"
Name a Play for Pay game that does not requrie a CC to try their free time play. WoW and EVE all others do this. If you quit before the 14 days are done you are not charged. If you continue the game itself is 19 and change but you get another 30 days free. This is standard in the industry and your post shows you may be somewhat naive as to online gaming. If you are interested you might try the game, and simply quit when time is nearly over. CRS has never failed to honor their agreements and are small enought to allow the player base to speak directly with the Rats.
Those free MMOLRPG are not acutally Massive..You mean TF2 and the other standalones that can struggle to support 32 players?
Perhaps you are too young to acutally have a CC:-)
This method is a somewhat standard in the MMO industry, deal with it... But please don't come and babble about how bad the game may be.
They all do it to get you to keep playing, if they deny you access at the end of the trial, you may not be bothered to add all your details to continue you playing, but if it does it for you - you may just stay!
The grief potential for WW2 is much higher than WoW or even Eve.
Having the ability to constantly make new trial accounts to grief the enemy would be crippling. Not everyone would do it of course, but enough would.
It's not that hard to remember to cancel your account before the 14 days are up. I love it how people like the OP want everything done for them, they must be a very productive member of society. I can tell you right now that if you can't remember something as simple as cancelling an account then WW2OL is not for you. This game takes thought, tactics and most of all patience. There is a reason why most “WoW kiddies” stay out of games like this, and vets like it that way. Oh, and quit laughing so much in your posts, it just makes your point even more worthless.
You could probably sign up for 14 day free trial, then cancel it 20 minutes later, and still get 14 days.
Trials are supposed to be free with no strings attached, its supposed to expose as many poeple to the game as possible, the only companies requiring a credit card for a trial happen to be the same companies that are failing. hmmm I wonder why?
Its a difference in philosophy, are you putting out a trial with a credit card requirement in hopes to increase your revenue in the short term with people who forget to cancel? Or are you trying to expose people to your game and have the game sell itself? Obviousley the companies that choose the former dont have much confidence in their product, which consumers can smell a mile away. These same companies think their subcribers are fools but who really is the fool?
WoW and EVE are failing? I seem to remember having to have a CC to play their freebie. Perhaps you can post those games that don't require a CC. Regardless, you need a CC to play the freebie for WW2OL.
City of Heroes doesn't, neither does DDO or LoTRO.
I've been charged by companies that claimed that my CC# was just for identification purposes, and also charged for months on end by companies that hide their cancelation page, or for some reason it just happens to be down all the time.
People are too liberal with their CC#'s lately, or is it that it's not their number, but mommy and daddy's?
CRS record is a good as any if not better than any gaming site online. They are a very small company and you can phone any Rat you want. Every complaint has been resolved and there are very few. They get posted in the help forum and Bloo fixes the problem as fast a possible.
And it's very easy to cancel WW2OL. Like, log in. go to your subscription. Cancel. Receive confirmation e-mail. It's that easy.
BTW they warn you about game sale charge of $20 in e-mail when you set up the account. And they tell you that you will be charged $14.99 thereafter.
I've done the EVE trial maybe a half-dozens times, did the WoW trial a few times, CoX, and LotR... was never once asked for a credit card.
Evil will always win, because Good is dumb.
I'm pretty sure you can cancel the trial instantly and then still get the remainder of the 14 days.
One of the biggest reasons they ask for a credit card is so you can't keep signing up for 14 day trials over and over. You only get one try per card. I'm guessing the reason COH doesn't ask is because it isn't a constantly ran free-trial.
It seems that it's $20? + $14.95 per month
or is it,
$20? + $20(key) + $14.95 per month
or is it,
free for 14days, provided that we cancel within the 14days and ALL fees are canceled and NOT charged?
I don't get it is it free or not.
DDO, WOW, FFXI all required a CC to trail them and I belive they also auto supend your account when the trail is runs out.
So he wouldn't be the naive one here, would he?
I'm almost certain EVE does not ask for a CC during trial setup, and I'm pretty sure WoW doesn't either (although I never needed a trial for WoW).
You don't cancel. After 14 days you card gets $20 charge (game and 1 month of gameplay). After that every month on renewal date you will get charged $14.99.
Clear as mud?
Free trials that don't require a credit card is a recent phenomenon. EVE was probably the only game I did a trial for that didn't require one till a couple years ago. You are warned before you put in your info that you'll be charged, its you're fault for not doing it on time.
You don't have the ability to constatnly create new trial accounts. You would need a new credit card number for each 14 day free trial account. They have thought of this already.
You don't have the ability to constatnly create new trial accounts. You would need a new credit card number for each 14 day free trial account. They have thought of this already.
This is the real reason here folks...no conspiracy, no shinaniggans. Also, since the game has no levels, no gathering of phat loot, a 14-day free trial without restriction would essentially allow you to play the game for free forever. The CC number is the way they restrict the number of times you use the free trial.
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I've done the EVE trial maybe a half-dozens times, did the WoW trial a few times, CoX, and LotR... was never once asked for a credit card.
Yea, no CC for those. Eve constantly advertises about it.
Um... how is this even a discussion. I have tried EVE,WoW,LoTR,MxO,and CoH all without a credit card. On this very website EVE states that no CC is needed. Actually a way they restrict unlimited free trials is by emailing you the activation code. Once you use a trial code, you can't use another for that account. Of course you can make multiple accounts but you can never make any progress because you will never be able to use your characters.