Posted by Heartbourne on Friday, November 27th, 2009 - 11 Comments
Tags: 5 dollar WoW, black friday, dual boxing, recruit a friend, spam
Now this is quite the deal: starting today, November 27, and continuing through Sunday, November 29th, you can buy either a boxed retail copy or a digital download copy of Blizzard’s popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft for only five dollars.
Thinking about getting your friends into the game? This might be your cheapest and most fun way of doing it. I’m considering getting a few of these just to have around as gifts or giveaway prizes. Its also a great way to start into dual boxing. I canceled one of my two WoW accounts recently, but the recruit-a-friend XP bonuses, like the Zhevra mount and 300% experience boost, might be enough to make me take up dual boxing again at some point.
Keep in mind that the World of Warcraft Battle Chest is currently $20 and includes WoW and the Burning Crusade expansion, as well as strategy guides. With resources like Project Lore, WoWHead, and WoWWiki, you probably will have little use for strategy guides. These are good entertainment value though; one of my friends bought the battle chest and chose to be a Warlock because the guide said warlocks were good for players “who like to win”. Paladins, on the other hand, are for players “who don’t like to lose”. Additionally, the Battle Chest is likely to be updated within the next 8 months or so with the Wrath of the Lich King expansion, and many of the features of Burning Crusade and Lich King, such as venturing to the Blood Elf and Draeni lands, may become part of the standard World of Warcraft game when the new expansion Cataclysm launches. As such, stockpiling WoW games may not be the wisest long-term investment.
If you are planning to use them for recruit-a-friend for your own dual-boxing purposes or as a gift, keep a few things in mind. The first thing you want to do is send your friend (or yourself; I’ll assume you are friendly with yourself) a recruit-a-friend invitation from your account at this page. Once your friend creates a World of Warcraft account, they will be credited with 15 days of game time. Now would be a good time to gift them with the full version of World of Warcraft that you theoretically purchased for five dollars; either in digital or boxed form. They can install it if they haven’t already so they can actually play, and when they add the retail version of WoW to their accounts, they will receive an additional 30 days of free game time. If they buy a month of game time, you will receive a free month of game time. If they buy two months, you receive a Zhevra mount.
For more details on recruit a friend, check out the WoWWiki page on it, or the official World of Warcraft FAQ.
Possible negatives include a cheap avenue for spammers to get into the game. Spammers get banned quickly, but can also make accounts cheaply and quickly with the same tricks players use to recruit friends
Are you going to take advantage of this deal?
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By Nextgener@aol.com on Friday, November 27th, 2009 at 9:39 am
Come to the Gaming Side. Give In to your PC.
By iTZKooPA on Friday, November 27th, 2009 at 9:51 am
Tempted to just get a backup copy…
By Bear4242 on Friday, November 27th, 2009 at 9:53 am
At the meijer near me this week all wow was 19.99 including WOTLK and BC I went in to buy a copy but they were sold out lucky for me they let me have a rain check
this will save me a lot of money seeing as I was planning on getting it for my gf another friend and myself since my got hacked and blizzard wants a copy of my birth certificate to get it back (ya like thats gonna happen) much cheaper way to start from scratch again
By Moxis on Friday, November 27th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
Shandris rules! But seriously folks, im a rogue and i cant stand this holiday and all u lame-o’s trying to turn us into turkeys I mean LAME!!!!!!!!
By Recklessrj on Friday, November 27th, 2009 at 2:02 pm
Hell yeah. now my cousin cant say it cost to much to buy now
By Jimfox on Friday, November 27th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
first
Jimfox
80 Death Knight
Quel’dorei
HORDE
By Pegraath on Friday, November 27th, 2009 at 10:05 pm
Get your friend to play the 10 day trial on a variety of classes first (repeating the trial if necessary), so they know what they’re doing, and get an idea for a class they want to play. Eg, levelling, training, talents, professions etc.
By Egma on Saturday, November 28th, 2009 at 3:00 am
Ive always been tempted to Multi box, yet never do with the “Ill do it once I move into a better house and get a better job where my schedule isn’t so hosed” excuse but that is unlikely to happen any time soon… bery tempting to pick it up for when I do multibox but not worth the price difference into possibly lo miss placing it before being ready to have time to take advantage of multiboxing….
Will get there eventually but nope not this “holiday sale”
By Shanto on Saturday, November 28th, 2009 at 7:21 am
Does this work in the UK? Cause that’d be awesome.
By Mav on Saturday, November 28th, 2009 at 11:00 am
Too bad this is US only. Though I play on the EU servers I’ll just get one of these.
By SDF on Saturday, November 28th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
Come on!
dual boxing is bad, don’t encourage it!
It just becomes mechanical and just ruins the game like all the gold spammers.
Have multiple chars not accounts.