World of Warcraft's adoption of free-to-play elements brings validation to the F2P market, according to Gamersfirst's Enno Hennrichs. Recently Blizzard introduced an extended free trial which gives users the ability to play the first 20 levels of their character for free.
Blizzard Entertainment has announced the opening of beta registrations for “World of Warcraft: The War Within,” inviting players to explore new subterranean worlds beneath Azeroth.
Danish from eXputer: "Despite Blizzard's attempt to give a fresh new spin to World of Warcraft, some fans still seem to be stuck in the past."
HG writes: "Blizzard is usually pretty bad at keeping secrets, but the company somehow managed to keep this one under wraps until now. Plunderstorm is a special limited-time event that’s basically World of Warcraft’s take on the Battle Royale genre."
Compared to the levels beyond 20, I bet those first 20 levels go by like the wind. But it's the thought that counts.
ok, so they get 0.00000000000001% of the game for free... well done
The problem with this is that leveling a wow character is probably the most boring part of the game. The best is end game raiding, so most of the trial people will never get to try it out since they believe that wow is just killing 6 mobs for a quest.