I won't start a subscription two weeks early just to reserve a name. This is Blizzard showing bad form again, trying to milk money from ppl and/or playing favors with their active subscriber base. Why can't name reservation start 2-3 days before? Then it would be worth it.
I am sure this has absolutely nothing to do with the recent tax demands exceeding 1 billion euro's that various EU countries are levelling against ActiBlizz.
Pretty sure a lot of folks are going to be level 60 inside a month... to think otherwise would be naive.
Making people pay to reserve names means you aren't stealing names from those who actually intend to play at launch. Imagine if anyone could reserve a name before launch... and how many names would be locked by people with little or no intention of playing. Hell, they locked the classic forums under a subscription requirement after a while... because they knew people would pay to post.
This has always been about getting sub money. If they can convince you to sub fo a year in advance for a sparkle pony pet, they will make a sparkle pony pet. They really could care less what people do with their time... they just want that money. And a lot of folks have been on recurring subscriptions without actually playing all that much for years. They love those folks. They love them to death.
If it's not "worth it" to sub for a name... your time in classic will be short anyways.
Not sure what all the criticism is about, those of us who have an active WoW subscription get to reserve our names before launch of Classic, that is awesome. Name reservation is a standard MMO procedure, if your perceiving it as an early cash grab that is your own jaded view of things.
Marketing wise its giving the Fans what they've asked for, those who Sub early for the reservation can then take time to dip into current WoW if they want or they can just wait till Classic Launches( obviously Blizzard is hoping people will give the Release version a Go Ahead during the wait period ), those who already have a Sub just get an added benefit of reserving their names for Classic without an hubbub, and for all the large gaming groups and/or guilds they get to look at the Server lists and communicate ahead of time to decide where to base their community. All of this is a positive move, and the cries of cash grabs have just gotten sad and out of hand in the MMO community recently.
I would play it, if I had storage space to install the game... but I don't so I won't be reserving any names. If I ever play, I'll have to choose a name reservers haven't taken.
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Making people pay to reserve names means you aren't stealing names from those who actually intend to play at launch. Imagine if anyone could reserve a name before launch... and how many names would be locked by people with little or no intention of playing. Hell, they locked the classic forums under a subscription requirement after a while... because they knew people would pay to post.
This has always been about getting sub money. If they can convince you to sub fo a year in advance for a sparkle pony pet, they will make a sparkle pony pet. They really could care less what people do with their time... they just want that money. And a lot of folks have been on recurring subscriptions without actually playing all that much for years. They love those folks. They love them to death.
If it's not "worth it" to sub for a name... your time in classic will be short anyways.
Crap. Taken. Ok, I'll go with P4thet1c instead?
No fate but what we make, so make me a ham sandwich please.
Marketing wise its giving the Fans what they've asked for, those who Sub early for the reservation can then take time to dip into current WoW if they want or they can just wait till Classic Launches( obviously Blizzard is hoping people will give the Release version a Go Ahead during the wait period ), those who already have a Sub just get an added benefit of reserving their names for Classic without an hubbub, and for all the large gaming groups and/or guilds they get to look at the Server lists and communicate ahead of time to decide where to base their community. All of this is a positive move, and the cries of cash grabs have just gotten sad and out of hand in the MMO community recently.
Mess with the best, Die like the rest
I'm curious. Are you referring to the "About" of the article's author, or to name reservation for Classic?