Dissapointed in Blizzard - Page 2

Yeltsu · #16 (**permalink**) 04-24-2005, 04:31 AM

Yes that was the problem I had as well, I think you have to have bought a game card first when you are going to registrer your account. Don't worry, the game card will not kick in untill after a month, so you will get your free month anyway

If you want, then you can registrer with your credit card, and switch to game cards after account creation. That was how I circumvented(sp?) the problem, by using my brother's card.

I hope this helped

Brynn · #17 (**permalink**) 04-25-2005, 12:35 AM

But that's outrageous. I just wanted to activate my Guest Pass - what if I don't have a credit card? Am I forced to buy a game card to play for ten days? This is ridiculous! (Anyway, even if I had one, I can't use it because there is no "Game card" option under Payment Methods...

)

I have a credit card and of course I'm ready to pay the monthly fee and such, otherwise I wouldn't buy the game (which I decided for sure after a couple of hours playing

), but what if someone who doesn't have a credit card (OR is not willing to send its data via the internet) wants to play the ten days free trial...?

This is crazy.

Btw, sorry for not being there on Sunday morning, Yeltsu! It took some time to create that account and when I was ready and wanted to finish the registration I got an error message and that went on for an hour, so I didn't get to play until the afternoon...

Great game, anyway. I met a bunch of Hungarian Knights, that was fun

Xandax · #18 (**permalink**) 04-25-2005, 12:46 AM

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But that's outrageous. I just wanted to activate my Guest Pass - what if I don't have a credit card? Am I forced to buy a game card to play for ten days? This is ridiculous! (Anyway, even if I had one, I can't use it because there is no "Game card" option under Payment Methods... )

For people in that position - I'd advice to contact Blizzard directly. They likely have a means to bypass this, either by entering some code in the creditcard line or what not. There is no "real" validation of your carddetails untill they start billing you.

Yeltsu · #19 (**permalink**) 04-25-2005, 12:52 AM

@ Brynn: Hehe, I am glad you enjoyed the game

Like Xandax, i'd advice you to contact Blizzard with your problem

Brynn · #20 (**permalink**) 04-25-2005, 01:42 AM

Oh I won't, since I'm about to buy a game anyway, so it's no problem for me, but I can understand the disappointment of those who would just like to try it out. End of ranting.

Brynn · #21 (**permalink**) 04-27-2005, 01:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Xandax

Well - my problem is that I can't create an account at all since the service is down.

Same here, now that I've got the game :\

As for the earlier mentioned problem: here they have solved the problem by now, by sticking a warning onto each box saying that even activating the Guest Card requires a credit card or game card.

Yeltsu · #22 (**permalink**) 04-27-2005, 01:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Brynn

As for the earlier mentioned problem: here they have solved the problem by now, by sticking a warning onto each box saying that even activating the Guest Card requires a credit card or game card.

Good for them, I think they could have gotten in some legal troubles about that one.

Brynn · #23 (**permalink**) 04-27-2005, 01:23 PM

Definitely. I'm sure there were a lot of compalints especially about the Guest Pass thing.

Rudar Dimble · #24 (**permalink**) 05-02-2005, 06:40 AM

Are those problems solved by now? I want to buy the game, and play with prepaid cards. Will I be able to create an account?

Brynn · #25 (**permalink**) 05-02-2005, 07:11 AM

Just have a look at the posts above

Yes, you can create your account with a prepaid card.

Rudar Dimble · #26 (**permalink**) 05-02-2005, 07:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Brynn

Just have a look at the posts above

Yes, you can create your account with a prepaid card.

Sorry, somehow missed the last reply of Yeltsu...

Fuzzle · #27 (**permalink**) 11-20-2005, 08:55 AM

I need sum help here...
Im gonna buy WoW , and im gonna create an acc with the prepaid card, but when the 60 days finish do i need to buy another prepaid card to carry on another 60 days? or i can only play 60 days? or is there sum special way to fill the card with money????

garazdawi · #28 (**permalink**) 11-21-2005, 05:48 AM

You buy a new card and just use that card again as you did the first one.

Believer83 · #29 (**permalink**) 08-07-2007, 08:47 AM

Can't say I was too disappointed in Blizzard but...

When I bought the game it took awfully long to install. And when I finally got everything in order and launched the game it started downloading patches. The first patch was 590 MB in size. So I practically lost a day of gameplay because the patch took so long to download.

Later I ran into a problem: When I loaded my character it appeared invisible, only the shadow was seen. Suddenly the game froze and I was disconnected from the server. This problem wouldn't fix with that char so I had to delete him and start over again. Luckily I was only on level 7 and it didn't get too long to reach that level.

garazdawi · #30 (**permalink**) 08-09-2007, 08:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Believer83

Can't say I was too disappointed in Blizzard but...

When I bought the game it took awfully long to install. And when I finally got everything in order and launched the game it started downloading patches. The first patch was 590 MB in size. So I practically lost a day of gameplay because the patch took so long to download.

Later I ran into a problem: When I loaded my character it appeared invisible, only the shadow was seen. Suddenly the game froze and I was disconnected from the server. This problem wouldn't fix with that char so I had to delete him and start over again. Luckily I was only on level 7 and it didn't get too long to reach that level.

That "bug" has to do with 3rd party addons. If you had cleared you WDB and WTF folders and the restarted the game the issue would have been gone. Nothing to do with blizzard at all but one of the addons you are using is messing with the model skinner in WoW.