Expansion Trail = lame

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 2:51 am

So in my mail I see a DVD of WoW Burning Crusade, and go "wtf?" I didn't buy this shit! and then see it's the trial edition of the expansion.

But it requires that you reactivate your old account ($15), then you get to play a locked edition of the expansion for 10 days (can get exp, but can't level haha), then they force you to buy the expansion online for $40.

I guess this is cooler than AOL coasters at least.

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 7:32 pm

I lied, I am so going to try this free trial.

$15 to reactivate, dick around for a bit, then sell all my gold to IGE. ( https://www.ige.com/ssl/sellcurrency.aspx ) Their ticker is kinda like watching the stock market. At the current rate of $0.043 per gold, I can make $559.

And if i get banned, oh well!

edit: oh snap the price has fallen to 0.039 after typing this post!

Post by **Jonathan** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 7:47 pm

Dave wrote:I lied, I am so going to try this free trial.

I laughed a lot until I read the bit about how you were going to make $500. Then I laughed less.

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 10:26 pm

So I reactivated, sold stuff then hit the trial level cap (@1 exp to level 61) and seriously contemplating getting the expansion. I'm so going to fail my willpower check.

Post by **Jonathan** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 10:47 pm

Sell the char, don't give in!

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 10:49 pm

No one buys level 60 characters anymore, guess I'll have to level to 70 to sell it! yea! best reasoning ever!

Post by **Jonathan** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 11:20 pm

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 6:59 pm

Random anecdote since I'm bored at work. I was selling 5000 Gold (max you can sell at a time) and the guy kept saying "5000 no postage" and I had no clue what he was actually talking about thinking he didn't get my in-game mail. (FYI in WoW, ingame mail is only "instant" when sending money, items or text take an hour or so)

So I finally realize that "postage" he was talking about was the 30 copper it costs to send a mail, probably to their company "bank" since they use level 1 alts to throw Blizzard off or something.

If 1 gold = 1 dollar, he just spend 3 minutes demanding I send him 3 tenths of a penny. But since at the time 1 gold = .048 of a dollar, it was really 3 minutes over $0.000144.

VLSmooth · Post by **VLSmooth** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 7:02 pm

After the ridiculous amount of indirect RMT reading I've done over the years, it's still strange hearing of a player selling currency instead of buying it, with the notable exception of the player quitting the game.

Quitting again?

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 7:21 pm

Yep, reactivated to requit. or get banned.

I figured out the majority of my gold came from one transmute that was on a 24 hour cooldown. Essence of Undeath to Essence of Air, the first being purchasable for ~1G and the result being sold for ~20G. Of course, since the expansion, everything I had was vendor trash. hehe

Post by **Jonathan** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 6:25 pm

http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=507157

What is the best spam? Corpse spam! Each dot is a tiny dead gnome.

You should play so you are subjected to junk like this!