Now 10 days past my 14 day World of Warcraft trial, I’m very tempted to buy the game, except for one little thing… I’m too cheap and lazy to haul my ass off to the store to buy the retail box that they insist I need to convert my trial account! Why should I need the box? As near as I can tell, I’ve already got all of the code on my PC from the trial DVD and patches. All that I really need from the box is the auth code. Why can’t I just pay Blizzard for the code and skip this box thing and the messy hauling my ass out into the streets or waiting for UPS? In an age of Direct2Drive and Steam for online game distribution, making me go buy the boxed game is just another barrier to the sale. Oh well, I guess I’ll get around to buying that box sometime…
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