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Brits Score Copy Of WoW With The Times

DaddyKewl — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 09:04:57 MDT

I just bought the times today to find out you only get the disk in London and the south-east so I had to apply for it online at www.offersinthetimes.com/warcraft but i did get the interesting 8 page segment...yay!

DaddyKewl

Brits Score Copy Of WoW With The Times

Altima NEO — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 11:20:25 MDT

Yeah, my jungle love
Oh ee oh ee oh!

Err wait, wrong The Times.

Altima NEO

Brits Score Copy Of WoW With The Times

ianovich — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:30:27 MDT

At my school (University of Arizona) there were beta trial cds for Guild Wars wrapped in the school newspaper two years ago. It certainly caught my attention, but I think the vast majority of them ended up on the ground around the paper dispensers.

ianovich

Brits Score Copy Of WoW With The Times

GeneralZod — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:33:28 MDT

What would Americans do if something similar happened?

15 burgers for breakfast? Check
2 gallons of coke? Check
Paper has arrived but too morbidly obese to get off your fat ass to go get it? Check

Oh look I can make horribly stale steriotypicle comments too!

GeneralZod

Brits Score Copy Of WoW With The Times

Infradead — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:52:25 MDT

@RRHood: Haha, same here man, but... this is just to good to resist. I have to feed my WoW addiction bit by bit so as not to go insane. 14 days lasts until my birthday so... that adds up nicely.

Infradead

Brits Score Copy Of WoW With The Times

acceptablerisk — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 10:24:23 MDT

Josh, nearly every PC title Blizzard has ever made also runs on Mac right out of the box. So feel free to WoW away if the mood strikes you.

Sometime back, oh a bit more than a year ago, I want to say, They sent out a bunch of trials in Maxim or Stuff or some lad magazine or another. It included a full installation DVD and a trial key good for like three weeks. I gotta wonder how many people that hooked. I thought it was nice just to have a DVD to reinstall from rather than the pile of CD's that comes in the retail box.

acceptablerisk

Brits Score Copy Of WoW With The Times

RRHood — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 10:11:06 MDT

Easter half term is soon...but I need to revise for A levels...DAMN YOU BLIZZARD AND THE TIMES!

RRHood

Brits Score Copy Of WoW With The Times

Eastwood — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 09:48:11 MDT

Murdoch likes money. Simple as that, really.

It does seem somewhat odd, though. Not as odd as if this had appeared in, say, the Torygraph.

Eastwood

Brits Score Copy Of WoW With The Times

aestheticity — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 08:25:04 MDT

a few years ago vivendi and murdoch were at each others throats. now you have a murdoch paper promoting a vivendi product. what gives?

aestheticity

Brits Score Copy Of WoW With The Times

Josh* — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 07:42:14 MDT

Is it cross platform? If it doesn't run OSX I shan't be rushing to the newsagents, I can't be arsed with booting up XP just to play this...

Josh*

Brits Score Copy Of WoW With The Times

Tesz — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 07:11:20 MDT

Very cool way of spreading the addiction, lol.Seriously, i would love to see something like this done here in the States.It always seems that creative marketing such as this is always done in Japan or sometimes Europe.

Nicely done Blizzard.

Tesz

Brits Score Copy Of WoW With The Times

Sanguis_Malus — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 06:47:24 MDT

Lapsang Souchong !

Sanguis_Malus

Brits Score Copy Of WoW With The Times

AMonkey — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 06:13:14 MDT

Niceeeeeee....

I've been wanting to try WoW and this seems like a great opportunity.

AMonkey

Brits Score Copy Of WoW With The Times

The Commissar — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 05:11:51 MDT

Vivendi must truly have money to burn to send this crap out to the already oversaturated market. I mean, how many freakin CD's are we talking about for a trial that is easily downloadable by any git that wants to play? I mean, you DO need an internet connection to play, and the patches alone take ages to download on dialup, so broadband is more or less a necessity. You would think anyone interested - minus 40-something bored soccer moms - would have downloaded it already if they have any interest. Not to mention the insertion costs...I rest my case. They would have gotten nearly the same result just with the guide insert.

Blighters. Interesting gambit but similar crap was pulled with EverQuest and I think the money used on this promotion was a waste. However, this is Vivendi and clearly they have a cash printing press, which they like to call WoW.

The Commissar

Brits Score Copy Of WoW With The Times

metallicorphan — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 04:17:50 MDT

@Elrando:

calm down....the same 14 day trial costs just £1.49(proberbly not much dearer than the times) in HMV....its been out for a while now

i guess its just advertising for the latest expansion

metallicorphan

Brits Score Copy Of WoW With The Times

vongarr — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 04:16:56 MDT

Lucky for America, they will be on eurotrash servers. I see enough of the letter U without having to see it in color, or armor, or...moustache. But they added an O there, not a U. But it's just as bad. And this doesn't even include that crazy cockney slang.

Topics such as these keep me awake at night.

vongarr

Brits Score Copy Of WoW With The Times

drifter13 — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 03:46:29 MDT

Hey check it out, through the magic of WoW Armory

http://armory.wow-europe.com/?#character-sheet.xml?r=Nagra...

Only level 10, so its seems the 31yr old mother of 2 and professional journalist hasn't fallen to far into darkness. Still, she joined a guild, so that's not a good sign :P

drifter13

Brits Score Copy Of WoW With The Times

sanjiyan — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 03:42:14 MDT

Maybe it's time City of Heroes got a bit of love from another well known paper?

NY Times?
SF Chronicle?
SJ Mercury?
Washington Post? (yeah, right)

sanjiyan

Brits Score Copy Of WoW With The Times

DaveKap — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 03:33:54 MDT

World of Warcraft still needs marketing?

*confused*

DaveKap

Brits Score Copy Of WoW With The Times

drifter13 — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 03:31:04 MDT

My god, Blizzard you evil bastards...8 million is not enough? How many more souls must you lay before your dark alter of money and epic loot. What's the circulation on the times anyways? Millions? If they even get 10% of those readers hooked... OH WHEN WILL IT END!!!!!!!

GAH, can't fight it any more, MUST....ROLL....NEW BELF HUNTER....

drifter13

Brits Score Copy Of WoW With The Times

Balance_In_Life — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 03:14:37 MDT

The poor English population... Well blizzard has posed to take down yet another great economy. Brilliant marking. Just like another drug dealer, give a little for free and make them crawl back for more!

Balance_In_Life

Brits Score Copy Of WoW With The Times

Irenicus — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 03:10:17 MDT

Great idea for getting more players, at this rate Blizzard will take over the world, and the guy in charge of WoW PR? well he is set for life!

Irenicus

Brits Score Copy Of WoW With The Times

offstump — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 03:10:16 MDT

excellent. I read The Times, and was thinking of buying WoW

offstump

Brits Score Copy Of WoW With The Times

IronsUK — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 03:06:38 MDT

I'm surprised The Times are doing a WoW promotion. I thought Second Life would be more up their alley. I guess they are trying to sell a few extra papers to skint Students.

IronsUK

Brits Score Copy Of WoW With The Times

Switch — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 03:05:56 MDT

I feel hideously offended by your comments, Lyria. The sterotypical designations you force upon the people of England are unfounded, and deeply offending. It should be "Earl Grey" and "Crumpets" :D

Switch

Brits Score Copy Of WoW With The Times

badramen — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 03:05:20 MDT

That is silly.

badramen

Brits Score Copy Of WoW With The Times

joelface — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 02:53:53 MDT

thats pretty awesome, with the beginners guide and everything... hopefully its a smashing success.

joelface

Brits Score Copy Of WoW With The Times

Paul Soth — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 02:50:12 MDT

Thousands of WoW players are caught off-guard by a sudden influx of new players speaking and writing in proper English.

Paul Soth

Brits Score Copy Of WoW With The Times

Lyrai — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 02:46:10 MDT

Can't wait for the in-game food items "Tea" and "Crumpets"

Lyrai

Brits Score Copy Of WoW With The Times

Elrando — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 02:41:38 MDT

Blizzard!
Devious bastards!!

Elrando

Brits Score Copy Of WoW With The Times

MO3iusONE — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 02:39:10 MDT

WoOt! That crack spreads mighty quick.

MO3iusONE