10-21-2011, 07:45 PM
(10-21-2011, 07:37 PM)Bolty Wrote: Right from MMO-Champion's coverage of Blizzcon, Diablo III Digital Edition will be free if you are an annual subscriber to World of Warcraft. The new annual pass will be available to purchase soon. You will also get an in-game mount and automatic access to the next WoW expansion beta.
What a way to make sure Diablo III doesn't suck away all the WoW players.Brilliant marketing move by Blizzard.
That really is, and it might even get me to re-up WoW via an annual pass assuming the annual pass is $120 or so (i.e. averages out to around $10 a month, instead of the $15 a single month is now). Take the $60 for Diablo III off and that is a year of WoW for $5 a month which is right around what I feel it is worth at this stage.
So not only is it a great way to not lose WoW subscribers, it might regain some for them and it would be the best kind of WoW subscribers, those that aren't really playing WoW much because they are playing D3 instead so there is no extra load on the WoW servers, but they have the revenue stream.
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It's all just zeroes and ones and duct tape in the end.
It's all just zeroes and ones and duct tape in the end.