World of Warcraft's Free Trial is SERIOUSLY Outdated!

World of Warcraft is the most popular MMORPG of all time, so I understand why it hasn't been updated, but this Free Trial is so weak, it can't clear the Deadmines....
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[kjriwoutube]

It's kinda sad that wow free trial is so sad and the FF14 free trial is a meme

[BritishEggz]

The thing that puts me off from even wanting to try I don’t wanna start enjoying it since it’s 100 Pounds a year!?!
I’d rather pay a set price and keep the game for ever 😢

[Shiirow]

wows free trial is like going to the store and getting a free sample in that microscopic dixie cup.

[kateyez]

I understand all the chat restrictions to prevent bot spamming. They should change it to be able to access all content up to the current expansion.

[HD]

Wow has a box price, a sub fee, an expansion fee and a crapton of microtransactions. This is why I don't touch retail, it's way too scumy.
I'll probably maybe consider it if they ever drop the sub fee so I only have to pay for box price and expansions, or keep the sub fee and drop the box price and expansion price.
Keep the damn microtransactions since that's the actual bulk of their money making, they don't need all the others.

[darthfakington]

A good, well presented video on the issue and constructive too. Well done.

[capothefool]

What brought me to FFXIV after my first ever experience with an mmo (completing all of the free osrs content) was the free trial. It's not that I'm cheap, I am more than willing to invest money in something I love, but how am I supposed to know if I love that something if I can't really try it? The free trial got me through 200 hours of content only in the base game and I still have a whole expansion to see. I'd love to try wow some day in the future and it's a shame blizzard isn't rethinking their strategy (to be fair they don't need to, they don't need the new players at all). I think more wow creators should address this barrier like you are doing.

[xhmm]

I remember my first experience with this game. I loved warcraft 3 so I thought why not try WOW then? so I installed it since I ONLY see the "free" part. It was Legion expansion I was so hyped to play it was so good but right after I lvl up to 20 I realized something weird that I'm not leveling up I thought it was some kinda glitch or bug, but after the 2-week play, I didn't lvl up. so I re-read everything. I was so frightened since I was young that I had no money to play it. From that day I promised myself, I will definitely play it once it become TRULY free. Even now I have money to play it I can't buy it since that childish promise and I have REALLY bad luck. once I buy it, it might become free tomorrow. But I will wait even if it's gonna take 20 years I will wait.

[AdraserPL]

Classic Vanilla Should be free to Play. Servers are empty and this be much better compare to this garbage trial....

[omegaxtrigun]

You're right it is really lacking, but honestly I think they haven't put much effort into the new player experience for a reason. And that is that they don't think that trying to attract new players is worth the effort anymore. Which sounds really weird, but let me explain. There are two main problems with WoW and new players:

1. When it comes to older players (people who have played mmos or other games for some years already) most of them already know about WoW and if they haven't already played it, then they've likely already decided not to play it for one reason or another. Pretty much all potential new player possibilities have been exhausted here.
2. When it comes to younger players (kids/teenagers who are newer to gaming) most of them aren't interested in this sort of semi old school mmo. It's far too investment heavy. Most modern young gamers want to play things that are more instant gratification. Stuff like Fortnite, Fall Guys, etc. Games where you just jump in and play, and you get the full experience right away without needing to invest hundreds of hours. And even for those younger players who may be interested in this kind of game, there are mmos and other sorts of online rpg games (Genshin Impact is a good example) that are entirely f2p. All of these games have something in common, and it's that they're vastly more accessible in one or multiple ways. These younger players don't have the patience for something like WoW, and even if they did there are other similar games that are entirely free.

So everyone who's been around has already heard about WoW, and anyone who hasn't been around isn't interested mostly because it's too much investment.

And ya they did just make Exile's Reach with Shadowlands, but honestly I'm pretty sure the primary reason for them doing that was for people making alts, not new players.


I did actually start a new account just to try the free trial experience after not having played the game for some years now, and ya it doesn't really do a whole lot to entice me back. Exile's Reach is functionally sound, but feels soulless. It has no passion or heart. It feels like taking that first part of FF14 where you visit all the cities and learn about them and trying to condense that down into a smaller package just for the sake of getting it over with quicker. It's like the difference between a home cooked meal and a tv dinner. It's not bad but it's not as enticing either. It all feels so fast tracked, express laned, generic, and bland. I get to Stormwind after Exile's Reach, and it literally becomes a conveyor belt of "Okay set your hearth here, now here's your mount, now here's your spec, now go to BFA." Three hours of casually questing later and I'm 20. And I have very little interest in going further. Not to mention things like bugs with the new ui and some questionable design with the new talent trees.

[iamjrchong]

Thank you for voicing out. <3
I personally think that Star Wars: The Old Republic has the best business model among all the games you've mentioned. We're able to play for free, we can subscribe if we really enjoy the game, and most importantly, we can play as "Preferred" whenever our subscription lapses. I switch between Sub and Preferred quite often due to the availability of my free time, and I feel totally at ease knowing that the game/company rewards my previous subscription by not reverting me to free-to-play restrictions even when I'm not currently subscribed and just want a leisurely, casual playtime.
The idea of having to pay just to catch a glimpse of my hard-earned character (we can't access >Lvl20 WoW characters once subscription lapsed) which I spent so much time & effort building is really off-putting to some extent, especially for us who experience disadvantage in currency exchange.

[Diva]

World of Warcraft tipple dips - Charging a monthly subscription fee, charging for expansions, AND having a cash shop. It's so greedy. I'd actually play the game if it had a pay model more like Guild Wars 2 - charge for the expansions and having a cash shop with mainly just cosmetics and minor QOL items. I'll never pay a monthly sub fee for a game again, especially if they also charge for expansions and have a cash shop on top of that.

[switchhazel]

I'm actually going thru this right now with a friend. She's new to WoW. There's so much she can't do with me and not being able to trade with her sucks and no AH is ridiculous.

[killzone]

Honestly they should just have 2-3 servers just for starter account players with more freedom so it doesn’t impact the main game or other people and it helps flourish people who try to mid max starter accounts but still keep some limitations like only max lvl20 and only having so much gold, or they could make wow classic free to play but I don’t think this greedy company would do that.

[bogdanalin]

I know $15 doesn't feel like much to you, but where I live it feels more like $65. I pay $5 for an unlimited phone and internet subscription. I used to play wow on private servers up until Pandaria was released and I always wondered how it would be to play on the official servers, i who'd be willing to pay a $5 subscription fee or at least let me play until lvl 60 and let me get the gold for a token or something.

[jvorg]

Even with no chromie time you can do old expansion zone quests for the hell of it through the Command Board.

[moimi]

free trial people can't even send an invitation to group up with people, this is insane for a mmorpg, I thought the essence of a mmorpg is to play with people but maybe blizzard didn't knew it..!

[ashwinnmyburgh]

The trial account for Wow has always been a bit of an issue for me. I am a student, and have very little spending money at all, so I can't really be throwing R200 at a sub. I loved playing WoW with my sibling during the trial account, we barely quested or did anything of the sort, instead we made our own fun, we traveled into the higher level zones, looked for secrets and little nooks, and we had a blast. I honestly fell in love with the game, but have never been able to play it properly. Even if Blizzard doesn't make WoW a f2p game, which I doubt they will, they could at least remove or up the gold limit and open the auction house, thus allowing free trial players to grind for WoW tokens. Paying the sub would thus still be relevant because you avoid the grinding, but it would allow free players to actually play the game.

That or give us WoW Classic for free. I mean, the classic game is basically a giant trial at this point. Allowing people to play the classic game and then sub for modern WoW, I think, could be a good move, as there would be lots of players who finished WoW Classic's content and want to experience the new game and would be willing to pay. But then again, maybe that's just me really wanting to play WoW Classic XD

[the__________]

At one point in 2012 I had over a year and a half time played across all of my characters and accounts, I quit shortly after. For alliance.
I played mainly pvp and arena with a Holy paladin and resto shaman, but had almost a max lvl of every class, and a couple on the horde.
After mopd I lost faith in blizzard, all of my top tier arena gear became obsolete with the introduction, there were literally people that just bought the game that had superior gear to mine.
Blizzard fucked us over, we were spat on and treated as though our loyalty as customers was meaningless.
It pissed a lot of us off

[pachecronico]

Finally there is a person talking about this.