Blizzard has used Blizzcon this year to make existing World of Warcraft players a very tempting offer, while at the same time ensuring they will continue playing the MMO for most of 2012.
The new subscription deal is called Annual Pass and encourages players to sign up to play WoW for 12 months rather than the more typical month-to-month plan. In return, Blizzard is willing to offer you a free copy of Diablo III when it finally ships.
If that wasn’t enough to get you clicking the sign-up button, Blizzard has also added a couple ofWorld of Warcraft specific goodies too. The first is an exclusive mount called Tyrael’s Charger. The second, and for most probably the better freebie, is guaranteed beta access to the next WoW expansion, called Mists of Pandaria.
The offer is open to any existing WoW player with a Battle.net account who live in the US, Canada, Singapore, Europe, Australia, or New Zealand. Your Battle.net account must also have a North American or European WoW region license to qualify and have been active before October 18th. However, it seems Blizzard is also willing to let you reactivate a lapsed or inactive account to take advantage of the offer.
As for the price, it’s the same as you would normally pay for a year of access in your region, but you can effectively knock the price of Diablo III off that to make this quite the deal for existing players or those wanting to return to old accounts.
This is a limited time offer so don’t take too long to decide to sign up. It may disappear when Blizzard have reached some predefined quota of players.
Read more at Blizzard Support, via GamesIndustry.biz
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