Will you sign up for the WoW Pass?Follow

Unlike the previous pony and lion mounts I really like the look of this one. Also I will most likely be playing wow for the next year so I will probably sign up for this. Going to be a bit of a pain if I have to pay for it on my credit card though rather than the debit card I use currently.

I most likely won't try diablo 3 or the beta, so I wouldn't have considered it if I didn't like the mount so much.

Like a couple of others on this thread I would probably be playing WoW for the next 7 months or so anyway, and was thinking of picking up D3 as well, so it makes sense to get a decent deal out of it. And a mount! I'll just have to make sure I disable automatic renewing of the subscription - there's no guarantee I'll want ANOTHER 12 months in a year's time.

Edit: I'd misunderstood the annual pass, I assumed you would have to pay for the full 12 months upfront, rather than continuing with whatever payment plan you like but committing for a year. Still, as I'm tied in I'll probably try to go for the longest term / highest discount payment they offer.

Edited, Oct 24th 2011 11:15am by Viidred

Broke down and signed up for it last night. Figure it was cheaper then other options I was considering, and I get a free game. If I stop playing WoW after D3, well hopefully I can find some doodads to sell to make up for the difference in price from keeping WoW going until the next expansion.

Same here. I signed on for the WoW pass on Saturday. I'm still thinking about upgrading to the Diablo III CE though - I usually buy the CE versions for the soundtracks (great to listen to at work). I didn't buy the CE for Cataclysm and still found the soundtrack on iTunes for $9.99. The Lil Deathwing is cute, but I'm not a huge pet collector so it's not a big deal for me. I have the BC and WotLK expansions and I've maybe looked at the art books once each and I'm fairly certain I've never cracked open the "Behind the scenes" DVDs...

Definitely passing on SW:TOR - no interest - I'll stick to Bioware's next Dragon Age game (if one is being made).


Edited, Oct 24th 2011 1:59pm by Snorre

I've signed up for it. Though I will be getting both D3 CE and SWTOR and playing them as well. It seems like a good enough deal to me, free mount, free D3 Standard and 12 months game time.

At launch PvE balance was non existent. I believe it took from Dec 7th until March for the worst of the major pve balances to be reached. I think a lot of players were not ready for the increase in grind and difficulty when it came to farming heroics to get raid ready. There have also been claims that due increased focus on revamping the 1-60 content that end game content was neglected, a point which Blizzard actually touched upon over the weekend at Blizzcon.

There are factors outside the product itself which should be mentioned, the completion of the WCIII & Frozen Throne story arc, age of the game is very important, poor economy, competition from other MMO's etc.

I think it is also important that even an expansion that has seen WoW "Plateau" or in some sense decline in a very minimal way is still only a failure in relation to any other WoW expac, in terms of the competition it would be a success they could only dream of in terms of units sold and subscription base.





Edited, Oct 25th 2011 8:49am by bodhisattva

I think I'll pass.

As much as I like WoW, I have played since 4.0 dropped non-stop and am now a little bit burned out. When D3 drops or most likely even before that I will temporarily quit WoW. Then D3 comes along and I have some time in which I won't miss WoW. And then when I pick it up again 6-10 months of the annual pass would be over already. So for me it's not that good a deal.

Edited, Nov 20th 2011 3:38pm by TherealLogros

It's a trap!

Sorry, couldn't resist. I've never played Diablo myself, so I'm not too interested. Now, if they were offering Heart of the Swarm instead or as another option, I'd be tempted. For now, I value my freedom to jump ship when I choose :) Happy for those who find this a good deal, though.

From the FAQ:

I tend to buy my WoW in the 6mo batches. I dn't know if a 1 year pass would be much heal/savings and stuff like mounts and non-functional things don't really get me excited. Combine all that with a poor performing computer.... I can't imagine D3 would do well on my laptop - so...

No.

Pretty positive that the D3 copies are tied to your account. If I log in to my battle.net account right now, I see Diablo 3 listed above my WoW licenses with "pre-download not yet available" written where the account info would be on a WoW account. So I don't know if there's any way you could transfer that to someone else's battle.net account.

No way I'd jeopardise my accounts that way. But it does make it a less attractive package for multi-account holders.