What are you waiting for? Go! Get some inexpensive MMOs! Oh, also - happy birthday Direct2Drive! (And thanks for that $5 copy of Bioshock!)
Direct2Drive offering $5 MMO downloads for their birthday
by Krystalle Voecks 
on Sep 23rd 2009 8:00PM
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What are you waiting for? Go! Get some inexpensive MMOs! Oh, also - happy birthday Direct2Drive! (And thanks for that $5 copy of Bioshock!)
Reader Comments (14)
Posted: Sep 23rd 2009 8:11PM (Unverified) said
AoC is only buyable in the US - damn international trading laws / companies wanting profits!
Seriously, I'd buy the D2D one if I could, party because their download is only about 14Gb rather than steam's badly-compressed 17-18gb. And at $5 for a month, i reckon it'd be worth it.
Seriously, I'd buy the D2D one if I could, party because their download is only about 14Gb rather than steam's badly-compressed 17-18gb. And at $5 for a month, i reckon it'd be worth it.
Posted: Sep 24th 2009 4:10AM pcgneurotic said
I just bought AoC with a UK credit card, from a laptop in Poland. So you should be Ok...
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Posted: Sep 23rd 2009 8:26PM Mode7James said
Why do you have to buy any of these? They have subscriptions, right? I don't know about any of the others, but I play EVE and you can download that for free from their site. Same with WoW, right?
Posted: Sep 23rd 2009 8:38PM Krystalle Voecks said
A free EVE account?
EVE charges $19.99 to roll a trial account into a paid account normally, which comes with 30 days of time. WoW also requires a key purchase to roll a trial to a full account, generally $20 for vanilla or BC WoW, more if you're getting WotLK on top of it.
This is $5 for the key *and* the first month.
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EVE charges $19.99 to roll a trial account into a paid account normally, which comes with 30 days of time. WoW also requires a key purchase to roll a trial to a full account, generally $20 for vanilla or BC WoW, more if you're getting WotLK on top of it.
This is $5 for the key *and* the first month.
Posted: Sep 23rd 2009 8:55PM Hambone Hamlet said
I picked up EVE since its an unbeatable deal, just not sure I know what I am getting into.
Posted: Sep 23rd 2009 8:57PM postpwn said
I, too, got EVE. Is there a Massively corporation? If not, we should totally start one.
Posted: Sep 23rd 2009 10:45PM (Unverified) said
Also people: assuming these games have invite-a-friend promotions (I know EVE does), you can easily just take this as an opportunity to get your sub for 1/3 the price, and get the other rewards.
Posted: Sep 23rd 2009 11:33PM ViRi said
If you already have an EVE acct can you buy the 5$ deal and use the code they give you to pay for a month?
Posted: Sep 24th 2009 3:33AM (Unverified) said
There's more confusion with EVE. I've bought it for $5 during Steam Weekend Deal, played it occasionaly, found it fun and then my 30 days passed and I didn't look into prepaids or subscription as I was (and still am :)) busy with WAR.
Now if I understand correctly I can't renew my subscription with a cheap 1 month PLEX card (around $12 here) but have to buy other prepaid card with 2 months for around $40. Correct me if I'm wrong - I'd love to play a month of EVE soon.
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Now if I understand correctly I can't renew my subscription with a cheap 1 month PLEX card (around $12 here) but have to buy other prepaid card with 2 months for around $40. Correct me if I'm wrong - I'd love to play a month of EVE soon.
Posted: Sep 23rd 2009 11:43PM Stanzig said
Would be nice if you could get a month for $5. I just resub'd to eve on new accounts and got some characters back from a bud. Shelled out $40 when if I would have waited two weeks it would have cost me $10...
Posted: Sep 24th 2009 5:48AM (Unverified) said
AoC has this notice.
"This product is only available for purchase in the United States and Canada. This purchase is not eligible for refunds."
But I tried it anyway until when you need to put your card. Then this error message came up. I'm from SEA. T_T
Error: Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures is Country restricted on your IP.
"This product is only available for purchase in the United States and Canada. This purchase is not eligible for refunds."
But I tried it anyway until when you need to put your card. Then this error message came up. I'm from SEA. T_T
Error: Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures is Country restricted on your IP.
Posted: Sep 24th 2009 9:34AM (Unverified) said
Finally some decent competition against Steam's already awesome deals. I love capitalism.
