Spectral Mounts and Server Loads

I was looking at the Daily Blink today and I just had to share this. One because it is about the SoR and secondly because it has the movie War Games, and that movie was awesome back in the day. So get ready for a laugh

The best part of this you may have had to have seen War Games, but I still think many of you will understand the end regardless.

Scroll of Resurrection – Resurrected Soon!

If you haven't heard here is the blue post

Once your friend accepts your scroll and pays for at least 30 days of game, you unlock your choice of the following rewards:

• A Free Spectral Gryphon for an Alliance character
• Or a Free Spectral Wind Rider for a Horde character

And, to enable you and your friend to play together in Cataclysm's newest content, any friend who accepts your Scroll will also receive the following epic benefits:

• A single character immediately boosted all the way to level 80 -- DING!
• A FREE upgrade to Cataclysm -- regardless of your friend's original box level
• An optional FREE character move -- to your realm and faction so you can play together
• 7 FREE days of game time -- available immediately

A few other prerequisites apply -- such as a free upgrade to a Battle.net account for players who haven't played since 2009 or earlier -- so be sure to check out the FAQ below for full eligibility details.

So this is Blizzard's attempt to get players back to playing the game, and there is a lot of uproar about players who haven't left why they shouldn't get these rewards. Well one thing a few months back if you were a subscriber for 5+ years then you actually got a free copy of WoW. I know this because I got one. You could also say that getting a free 80 if you are already active i nthe game is laziness. This is for people that say haven't played in years and are behind. This goes hand in hand with the free Cata upgrade. The character move is the same thing. If you were away your guildies or friends could have moved to a more active server. You are being given this option as a way to get you back into playing and renewing your subscription. Lastly the 7 days of free game time was the thing that was always in the old Scroll of Resurrection.

You also are getting a free mount for getting people to come back on Blizzard's behalf just like you get a free mount when you recruit a new player via RAF. If  you haven't seen the mounts

So for all those people with the gimmie attitude about how because you have been loyal and deserve something because you haven't left. This is the type of thing that leads to washed out content, mounts being reissued, and so on and so forth.

Scroll Of Resurrection Change

For those who do not know what the Scroll of Resurrection is besides saying where the hell have you been I can explain it for you. Over the years Blizzard has sent out Scrolls of Resurrection to inactive accounts that were quite active for a time. These scrolls could be applied to your account to give you a free month of play with the intention that it would make you want to come back and play on a regular basis. They generally did this when a new patch came out or a new expansion basically to let you see what all the new stuff was about. Blizzard is now changing how this works and let me show you a screenshot that explains it.

Yes what you see is actually true. Blizzard is giving players the options to send out Scrolls of Resurrection to players on their friends list. I am not sure if there is a limit also I am not sure if this is going to be Real ID friends only since it does require an email address or if it is any friend and Blizzard will take care of the rest. Either way I think this is a great idea on Blizzard's part. Why you ask? Well if you get one of these from Blizzard it is like them saying "Come back you will like all this new content and we would love you to subscribe again", while if a friend were to send you this it is more like "There is a lot of great stuff going on in WoW right now you should really come and play with all of us again". You are more likely to use it if it is not from Blizzard and from a friend from inside the game. Overall I think this is a great idea and Blizzard once again is thinking of the community as a whole.