My Warcraft Problem
When I got my first job working on a MMO four years ago at Flying Lab, I thought I should become more familiar with World of Warcraft because it was the clear market leader. WoW was and continues to be the standard, so I figured it'd help me in my job to be better acquainted with it. So I got the game and the latest expansion and spent the required
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Not sure how significant or not this would be to you. I played a lot of WoW but got burnt out on it. Like you I didn't cancel and left my paypal account on file with them, knowing I had paid for 6 month and figuring I would get around to canceling before that expired. Guess what I forgot to do?
Yeah, so as soon as I saw the charge hit my paypal account, I canceled my account and asked for my money back. I think I got it right in that short window where the money wasn't accounted for and done. After a few emails back and forth they eventually refunded the charge and told me they would NEVER do this again for me.
I think for Blizzard its about establishing a precedent that they will NOT be ripped off. The extremes the take that when they have 10 million + subscribers is a bit nuts though.
Sadly WoW is the definitive MMO and I don't see that changing anytime soon. A few years ago it looked like their could be major contenders but now a days I can't see anyone "catching" up with the years of live development they've got. I'd say try it again, maybe this time on a server that friends of yours play on so you can at least have a little more fun in the game, messing around with friends.
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