4 ms·
I signed up for a trial for WoW back in the day. It was about 3 seasons in, and the way the install worked was that you had to download and install each update
by rhdunn 2y ago
I signed up for a trial for WoW back in the day. It was about 3 seasons in, and the way the install worked was that you had to download and install each update separately, each of which was 2-3 GB each.
I was using a slow dial-up at the time and spent the duration of the trial downloading the game. When I got to log in for the first time in a playable state, it said my trial expired! So ended my WoW journey.
It would have made more sense to start the trial from the first login/entering character creation.
I like the Path of Exile model. The game is free to play, and you pay the price of a game to unlock inventory management. -- By that time you know if you are invested in the game or not.
- em-bee 2y agosimilar thing with steam demo days. for a weekend or so a bunch of games are available for free to try them out. sounds nice until you find out that they are really only available for the duration of the demo days. so one time i looked and i found a dozen games that i wanted to try, but then i realized that i would have to spend the whole weekend playing games in order to try them all. i ended up trying not a single one of them because i just can't tell my family that i won't be available for a few days until i tested all those games. what would have made sense is to allow downloading all the games for free and then give each of them a time limit of a few hours to play. still not ideal (i am a slow player so i'd like to have a bit more time to evaluate a game) but way better than terminating the trial before i have even had the time to play anything.