As I recently recounted, Mister Adequate gifted me with a Scroll of Resurrection and I used it to claim a free week of WoW.
During that week, I messed around a bit, mostly on alts, and I had a little bit of fun, but not quite enough to warrant resubscribing. I let my free week run out, satisfied that I’d gotten my WoW fix for a little while.
Then I remembered that I’d just put a whole bunch of crap on the auction house right before my time expired.
…
So I resubbed for a month. For no other reason than to ensure that a bunch of virtual gold doesn’t have to rot in a virtual mailbox.
I’m… not the only one who has done this, right?
…right?
You are not, I did this back in… I want to say 2007? 2008? One of the two. In my defense it was a LOT of items and I had previously lost hundreds of gold because I did the same thing the time before but didn’t resub!
Sort of. I have a hunter alt on Misha that had a few stacks of mithril ore up on the AH. The last time I logged him in (yesterday I believe) I had one day left on the gold in my mailbox from the auctions.
Virtual gold is important too! It’s as shiny as real gold.
Sure pike….sure.
/pat
I’ve just shrugged over the lost gold. But then gold is not that important to me since I don’t raid, so I never need to buy the insanely expensive enchants and stuff.
That said, I do vaguely remember resubbing once due to not wanting to lose gold, only to find out that I had waited to long and the mail had expired.
Oh, and once I was hacked. I felt so dirty I didn’t log on again and let the account expire. Then, just shy of a month later I resubbed to see what the damage was (I found it strange that my armory page still had my main (and then only max lvl char) hunter still in full gear. I found her in the middle of Borean Tundra with no ammo but a bag full of some fire motes or whatever, and a mailbox full of even more motes of every kind from “unkowns”, tho my low lvl alts had been stripped bare. I deleted the alts and sold the motes for a few hundred gold. I was lucky as shorty before being hacked I had 3-4k gold, but I spent it on BoE leatherworking recipies and was practically broke after that.
You are so not the only one although I can retain a (small) degree of smugness having just returned from three weeks in England knowing that I had cleared everything down before my last game card expired. Now I just have to find some real gold to buy a new game card…
Doesn’t Mister Adequate get a free month of game time when you buy a month of game time after being resurrected? That should make it pretty easy to convince him to pay for that first month. He pays what he normally would, you get a free month of play. That’s how I worked it with my brother a couple years ago.