Azeroth announces limited Open Shores policy: WoW free weekend (November 17-21, 2022)

I'm not gonna try it but I'm sure it's a good game.

Not for me, thanks. I played for a few months, got burnt out and bored of the formula, then left.

My vote^

Loved Warcraft.

And Warcraft 2.

Warcraft 3 was okay.

I've never played WoW.

Seems like a good time to start. Except I'm not going to.

Now if they were to release a finished Warcraft Adventures...

Played WoW for a long time. This just seems like a desperate move to hook new people before an expansion so no thanks. Product quality is way lower than some older expansions and focus has obviously shifted and many great and talented people have left the company since and haven't been replaced adequately as can be seen by the game state.

Ain't coming back after Wrath.

Wouldn't touch this time-vampire with a 10-foot pole.

The main issue with World of Warcraft is it abandoned the story for power creep. Then once power creep got too much; they decided to literally make almost every stat worthless {Level Squish from level 120 Cap to 60}. Then as if to throw oil on the fire of their eventual demise; retconned their own story using the Golden Time Dragons and made almost everything so inconsistent that half of the game is now zoned by the phase of what quest you're on. They ruined World of Warcraft for me after Mists of Pandaria; which was the last time they didn't let power creep make the story go poot.

Played WoW for years, just not interested in it anymore. New expansion looks kinda barebones as well.

Blizzard managed to make the game feel both stuck in the past and devoid of its original charm, or maybe I'm just an old player tired of an old game. In any case at this point there's at least 2 or 3 MMOs I'd rather play over WoW whenever I get the MMO itch.

It definitely seems this time around they're going full blast on marketing though - Twitch drops, sponsored streamers, free weekends, etc. After a lot of players left last year they must be really looking forward to reel some people back in. I'm kinda curious to know how the expansion is doing sales-wise though - in the past they would've already announced the preorder numbers

I can only think of one song for those who are going to take advantage of this weekend:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doFnCzUxLU8

that's bad. steam version incoming(?)

It isn't suprising that mainly only people comment here that are salty about the game.
Free 3 day periods have been numerous times over the years, especially before a new expansion.
This means that this is not a desperate move from there side or a sign that a steam version is coming.
WoW is bleeding customers for a long time now.

I have been on and off the game quite a lot since release. I didn't have an active subscribtion for quite some time now and even didn't pay "real" money for it in maybe the last 10 years. But visited for 30 days gametime here and there, all through converting ingame gold which had gotten more and more "expensive" over the last years. Last time I logged in was about a year ago, because of the 17th anniversary (achievement) and I'm going to use this free weekend to grab this years 18th anniversary achievement and maybe look into converting the rest of my gold into store credit if the convertion rate is worth it at this time.

But I wouldn't know what todo with the store credit at the moment anyway. None of the other Blizzstore games are interesting for me at the moment.