hello to all the wow communities,
i have some question about the wow 10 trial offer by wow.
Basically i wan to ask if i'm using wow 10 trial and i intall the game by borrowing the cd from fren, if the 10 days trial finish can i buy a 60days prepaid card to charge in and continue my wow gameplay?

thx to all the people's that reply this threat


P/S sry for my bad english >.<

Nope. After the 10-day trial, you'll need to buy a CD-Key first. That key will be used to activate your account. The CD-Key comes with a 30-days gametime.

Only after CD-key has been used to activate your acount, you can then use the 60 days prepaid card.

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Added on July 21, 2008, 1:53 pmEDIT : the CD-Key is lock to your game account and not for game installation.

This post has been edited by myremi: Jul 21 2008, 01:53 PM

Yes, I can personally confirm that you can get the files from anywhere you want but you need to have a valid CD-Key to play after the 10 days trials.

I downloaded the wow installation files after a problem with my cd (from Blizzard's official website, not a warez) but copying it from someone's else computer works also, done it before as well.

What identify your account is the CD-Key and the online account linked to it, files on the computer are not important at all.

This post has been edited by Gormaz: Jul 21 2008, 02:17 PM

Also one thing about creating a game account. You still need a credit card to help verify the account holder details. Note that this is only for verifcation and the card itself will not be billed.

wah.. if no credit card how O.o? because i personally don't own a credit card >.<

den you will need to buy 60 days game card ... bliz want to ensure you stay in the game =D

TBH, I'm not sure. It was something that happened to someone here in LYN and that they had to borrow their parent's card to start the account.

I dunno if they have since change the rules though. Try it out and see if anything strange pops up.

You can actually applied a prepaid credit card / debit card that don't have any income requirement and you can start enjoying wow

no credit card needed to create new account

do u think 7 million player all have credit card meh??

This post has been edited by nagflar: Jul 21 2008, 04:32 PM

yes, it does... surely confirm, else u phailed to create...

btw its over 10 millions already... no longer 7 millions...

2nd option is game card besides cc...

lol changed ?? last time i create accout without CC and time card de

i get the feeling it depends on whether u're using the 10day free online trial or the guest pass or just buying the game straight and loading without the trial period.

I thought if you buy the game box you don't need credit card? Since you get the CD-Key from the box and now we have prepaid card in the market, not like credit card is needed in any of the process.

When I validate my account from my expired 10days trial account, I dont need any cc or whatsoever. Well I do need the code from the Battlechest tho =p

same here. no credit card details whatsoever. As long as you get the game time card. In addition if u activate your game account on the same day u get your trial.

Trial accounts are a pain since u can't trade with other ppl, can't join guilds and is a real embarassment when u go for instances and ur pug members found out that ur on trial since if u accidentally loot something BoE that is better off with someone else, you can't give it back cos u can't trade. You can't sign guild charters, can't whisper.

Best part is the ten free days trial are considered as a full account game time once u make a full account! the ten days free trial is added on top of your game time. So 30 days free bonus for starter pack plus 60 days game time card plus 10 days free trial = 100 days.

This post has been edited by slickz: Jul 22 2008, 08:51 AM

gimme ur email i'll send u an invite into WoW..

icic, if i cr8 a 10 days trial and i buy a battlechest(30days free time) to activate my account, 10+30= 40 , so do the 10days am i able to trade? join guild?

yes you can. you have full privilege like everyone else. but im pretty sure u cant venture into outlands though.

ic, so when i purchase the battlechest box do i need extra 60days card to active my acc in order to play it?

not sure whats inside the battlechest, i bought the game way before expansion. they would probably notate on the box whether they have playtime included or not. usually they are quite careful with that. I remember my pre BC box comes with 2 months free play.

according to seller it include 30 days game play, just not sure thou whether need to buy 60days card to activate or not

no need. but of course u can ask the seller le if u want to confirm.

Battlechest has both the WoW Starter Pack + TBC expansion pack. Install both. They have separate keys.

Good to know that CC is no longer needed. I remembered about 6 months ago, ppl were whining about it.

in my experience there are 2 answers:
1. if u upgrade from 10-day trial account u have the option to pay using game card(like me)
2. if u upgrade from trial that was sent by a friend (recruit a friend) u need to have a credit card to be able to upgrade to full account ( i can confirm this coz i helped a friend into wow and when upgrading he had to deal with the whole credit card thing )

hope this helps somewhat

Edit: btw no.2 was in november 2007 so im not sure if its still the same

This post has been edited by EdG3: Jul 22 2008, 05:49 PM

Lemme get this straight
Once you start the TRIAL there is no other way you can continue your account other than buying the ORIGINAL game and activating it with the key granting you an ACTUAL account along with the 30 days playtime.

E.G. If you start from TRIAL you CANNOT use a game card to activate your account unlike Eve Online.

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Added on July 22, 2008, 6:08 pmMy friend just started the game 1 mth ago and nope CC details NOT required

This post has been edited by sayming: Jul 22 2008, 06:08 PM

did he buy a new game or upgraded from recruit-a-friend?

He bought a new game

is it the 10days guest invite same with 10days trial free game play? do both need to use original cd key to extend after 10days?

yea both needs a key to upgrade to full account but the recruit-a-friend trial will not allow u to pay game time using game card, u will need a cc.

This post has been edited by EdG3: Jul 22 2008, 06:19 PM

yea.. i planning to to regis a 10days trial and buy a battlechest to extend after 10days.
Btw how about do i need to buy a 60days card to activate my account if i using the battlechest? because i heard my fren he says needed

u get 30days to play after upgrading to full account. after that only need to use gamecard or pay by cc

i have found something in lowyat trade zone
http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopi...887&hl=warcraft < this seller says that 60days card is not require for activate account when using battlechest

but..
http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=673736&hl= < this seller says that 60 days card is require...

it is kinda confuse whether need or not >.<

This post has been edited by windboy: Jul 22 2008, 06:49 PM

I used the 10 day trial (not friend inv, fren inv need ccard), then i just added the cdkey that came with wow, that settled it, no need ccard

well from my 3 time create new wow account expriences . no CC and no time card is needed.

last time create accout is 2-3 month ago . but not sure for now . u can try . good luck

This post has been edited by nagflar: Jul 23 2008, 02:02 AM

well based on my 1 account created i needed a cc to start the account or a prepaid card but it dosent use the cc untill the free 1 month is up and if you want u can give your friend free 1 month subscription if you get invited by him.