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Alkiera
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The best part of SWG was the easy account cancellation process.
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It's up. Free trial no longer exists because it's entirely unnecessary. In that they have enough players, or what? I've been led to understand I have to pay $9.99 to activate an actual account. They admittedly then give me that back to pay for stuff in the store, but I still have to pay it. Is this no longer the case? The 'free trial' as I understood it, let you play only with pre-constructed 'theme' decks, against other trial people using those same decks, or something, but required no account set up and associated fees. -- Alkiera |
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schild
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Correct, you have to pay $9.99, but you get a $9.99 coupon for the store. The best way to spend this would be to ...well. How long have you been playing Magic? PM me with details.
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Alkiera
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The best part of SWG was the easy account cancellation process.
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As far as Magic goes, I'm a complete and utter n00b. I mentioned before that I downloaded the game to try and see if I could figure out why people were so obsessive about it, as I'd never played it before. Apparently one day too late to do so for free.
*sigh*
Having read some about the game, on the website, I'm amused that the colors(and themes) of M:tG magic co-ordinate exactly with the types of magic in Master of Magic... being life, death, nature, chaos, and sorcery. This further attracts me. I still have a desire to know if I find gameplay completely revolting before I pay $10.
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Alkiera
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"[I could] become the world's preeminent MMO class action attorney. I could be the lawyer EVEN AMBULANCE CHASERS LAUGH AT. " --Triforcer
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schild
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No one finds the gameplay revolting. At least not gamers.
However. If you play irl, you'll find the people at comic book stores revolting.
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Alkiera
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The best part of SWG was the easy account cancellation process.
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However. If you play irl, you'll find the people at comic book stores revolting. Actually, the place I've seen people playing here doesn't sell comic books at all, as far as I know. Just gaming stuff, from board games, to CCGs, standard PnP RPGs, to all the fluff for those miniatures games. They have numerous tables in the back for gaming, and a room in the back with ~15 computers(use charged on hourly rate) for electronic gaming, both LAN and internet stuff. On the other hand, most of the people playing minis or Magic games there do have that less than appealing aura. -- Alkiera |
"[I could] become the world's preeminent MMO class action attorney. I could be the lawyer EVEN AMBULANCE CHASERS LAUGH AT. " --Triforcer
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Mesozoic
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Well that blows. I was really hoping for the free thing, even if it was just watching a match or two. Coupons do not make the free trial unnecessary.
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...any religion that rejects coffee worships a false god.
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schild
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Trust me when I say the game is more fun than any other mmo out there at the moment. And the service itself is free. So if you can limit yourself to $15 or so bucks a month, you'll get a lot more enjoyment out of it. If you know the right people $15 bucks a month can get you 300 uncommons adn 600 commons.
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Alluvian
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Schild. Go and send Alkiera $10 on paypall or something and have her use her $10 coupon buying stuff you want and then giving it to you (10 tickets for example)
That way Alkiera can get in for free like she wants and you spend $10 like you would have on tickets or cards anyway. Just a suggestion. For this to work, the game would have to allow you to still play with starter packs for free... if that is not the case then she would need her $10 to buy a starter pack.
Alternatively, maybe she would be far more likely to pay the $10 if she had someone to teach her the basics and give her an idea of what kind of advanced strategies exist if she decides to learn it well. I am not sure if you are into the training thing or not.
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Mesozoic
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The way it ought to be:
Download and install the software for free. Upon creation of a free account, the player is given the option of picking one of 5 or so pre-constructed 60-card theme decks defined in newbie-speak (the Fire Deck, the Woodlands Deck, etc.).
With this the player can actually play against other freebie-players and invited friends (so they can tussle with buddies already in) for a week. After that the player has the option of walking away, or submitting his CC info, paying $9.99, and either keeping the starter deck or getting a new, random 60-card pack.
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...any religion that rejects coffee worships a false god.
-Numtini
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Xilren's Twin
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The way it ought to be:
Download and install the software for free. Upon creation of a free account, the player is given the option of picking one of 5 or so pre-constructed 60-card theme decks defined in newbie-speak (the Fire Deck, the Woodlands Deck, etc.).
With this the player can actually play against other freebie-players and invited friends (so they can tussle with buddies already in) for a week. After that the player has the option of walking away, or submitting his CC info, paying $9.99, and either keeping the starter deck or getting a new, random 60-card pack. That's pretty close to what it actually was. I guess after 2 years they decided to scrap it for some reason. It' still worth 10 bucks for a look see. Consider, your average mmorpg you have to buy a $50 box to get a "free trial" month. With MTGO you pay 9.99 to activate your account, and get 9.99 worth of product to try it and you account remains open forever. Xilren |
"..but I'm by no means normal." - Schild
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Xilren's Twin
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The way it ought to be:
Download and install the software for free. Upon creation of a free account, the player is given the option of picking one of 5 or so pre-constructed 60-card theme decks defined in newbie-speak (the Fire Deck, the Woodlands Deck, etc.).
With this the player can actually play against other freebie-players and invited friends (so they can tussle with buddies already in) for a week. After that the player has the option of walking away, or submitting his CC info, paying $9.99, and either keeping the starter deck or getting a new, random 60-card pack. That's pretty close to what it actually was. I guess after 2 years they decided to scrap it for some reason. It' still worth 10 bucks for a look see. Consider, your average mmorpg you have to buy a $50 box to get a "free trial" month. With MTGO you pay 9.99 to activate your account, and get 9.99 worth of product to try it and you account remains open forever. This just in the free trial server for MTGO is back up[/quote]. SO give it a look see.
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"..but I'm by no means normal." - Schild
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schild
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I started a new thread for that. |
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