World of Warcraft: The War Within's Early Access Is Now Live | MMORPG.com

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• Robokapp Member UncommonPosts: 155

  August 22

  let's goooooo
• gelraen Member UncommonPosts: 326

  August 23

  I find the paid early access option (which I refuse to pay for) really sucks the hype out of the new expansion for me. It's not a gesture of goodwill from Blizzard, that's for sure. It just feels like an unnecessary crash grab.

  
• Angrakhan Member EpicPosts: 1,839

  August 23

  I don't know that it's so much a cash grab as a marketing technique to create FOMO and get people on the fence to go ahead and purchase. Cash grab has the connotation that there's not much of a game there and so they're going to grab as much cash as they can before the market figures out they've been sold a bill of goods. I don't think that's what's going on here.
  
  To be clear I haven't preordered nor am I playing. I may dive into this expansion but I want to let the first couple of weeks of bugs and server issues die down. I also want to see some reviews of delves because that's all I'm really interested in at end game. I have no FOMO because I already know I will MO because I'm a casual player not a raider. Therefore I have nothing to fear. I can be patient.
  
  All that to say I'm no Blizzard white knight or shill.
• Nosferatupac Member UncommonPosts: 33

  August 23

  I am looking forward to the full release on the 26th. Gives me a few more days to wrap up some other games before I Dive on in

  
• Dattelis Member EpicPosts: 1,675

  August 23

  I guess it would cost them too much to just roll that early access period into pre-orders like FF14 has been doing for years at this point.
• gelraen Member UncommonPosts: 326

  August 24

  
  

  Dattelis said:

  
  

  I guess it would cost them too much to just roll that early access period into pre-orders like FF14 has been doing for years at this point.

  
  

  
  
  This is of course the classier way to do it. Blizzard's move here just feels needlessly greedy.
• Dhampir Member UncommonPosts: 188

  August 24

  i did not get the early access....for a couple of reasons..
  
  1. playing gw2 new expansion atm.
  2. Got a 3 day weekend coming up for the holiday next week...so ill play it then.
  
  never believed in spending money for early access games.
  
  Patience is a virtue...lol

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• Akulas Member RarePosts: 3,029

  August 25

  Just wait for the discount and buy it then and do catch-up if you just want to play the game and don't care about anything else.

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