WoW is now a newspaper blow-in

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Richard Bartle reports that

Today’s issue of The Times [London] contains an 8-page pull-out about World of Warcraft, plus a cover disc giving a free account capped at level 20.

The Times! Such august territory was once reserved for the likes of department store catalogs and flyers for electronics sales!

  8 Responses to “WoW is now a newspaper blow-in”

  1. almagill says:
    March 31, 2007 at 3:41 pm

    Blizzard and Murdoch in bed together?

    Can’t you just smell the sulphur… 😉

  2. Morgan Ramsay says:
    March 31, 2007 at 8:55 pm

    Can’t you just smell the sulphur… 😉

    Not really. It’s a cold day in hell. 🙂

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    April 2, 2007 at 2:34 am

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  4. Rich Bryant says:
    April 2, 2007 at 2:39 am

    The Times is just another Murdoch rag these days and therefore everything it does and reports on has at least one eye toward enlarging Uncle Rupert’s solar-system sized bank balance. Look out for News International buying a piece of Blizzard in the near future.

    On the plus side, at least it wasn’t the Express, who’s proprietor, Richard “Dirty” Desmond is a well-known pornographer. WoW probably wouldn’t be his thing and their usual giveaways are special “conspiracy” editions about Pincess Di funded by Mohammed Fayed.

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  6. Richard Bartle says:
    April 3, 2007 at 1:01 am

    I wrote to The Times congratulating them on the pull-out.

    This morning, I received a reply from Sally Baker, their Feedback Editor, which stated: “Not all our readers were happy about the free game, and I would like to air this subject in my next Saturday Feedback column in The Register”.

    So, I’ll be buying that, then.

    Richard

  7. Mike Rozak says:
    April 3, 2007 at 7:23 pm

    I noticed oodles of cheap-sleave DVDs (or CD-Roms) on the computer-store counter, with a 14-day trial of WOW for A$2.00 (USD$1.50).

    To bad massive magaine went under; it would have been nice to be sent a MMORPG-of-the-month on DVD.

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