WoW Free to Play - Welcome Back Weekend November 5-8
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Shadowlands is nearly here, and you and your allies are needed back on the front lines. This weekend, we're giving all players with inactive World of Warcraft accounts full access to the game* and all of your characters without a subscription. You’ll be able to access all expansions including Battle for Azeroth, so you can play the most recent content and be ready for Shadowlands when it launches on November 23, 2020 at 3 p.m. PST. Rejoin your guild, rally your comrades, and prepare to brave the beyond.

Return to World of Warcraft FREE from November 5 to November 8.**


Get Back in Action

If you’re new to World of Warcraft or you’ve been away for a while, you can play through the new starting experience starting at level 1 to learn the ropes.

Players who have already experienced Battle for Azeroth and reached level 50 on at least one character can choose to level any subsequent characters in a different expansion using Timewalking Campaigns. This new feature makes it so content from locations like Northrend or Pandaria scales to a player’s level, so they can adventure from level 10 all the way to 50 and experience the stories in these areas at their originally intended pacing. Visit Chromie near the embassies in Stormwind or Orgrimmar to select your expansion leveling experience. If you'd like to select a different expansion to level through, simply speak to Chromie again.


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*Welcome Back Weekend not available in WoW Classic.
**Ability to return to WoW without a subscription ends on November 8, 2020 at 11:59 p.m. PST. Player is responsible for any online connection fees.
This article was originally published in forum thread: Welcome Back Weekend November 5-8 started by Lumy View original post
Comments 39 Comments
  1. Valkorion1337's Avatar
    Hope it gets fixed before it ends
  1. Sinaa's Avatar
    I could play for free yesterday evening, but this morning it does not work anymore. (at least Taesalach dropped)
  1. Lucetia's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Unforgivenn View Post
    How to make enough gold for token in 3 days?

    I got only 10k lol
    Best thing would be to ask a friend to borrow gold. Then buy a token spend that 30 days paying them back and making enough for next token. If you have Shadowlands it'll be easier at the start to make gold too.

    Quote Originally Posted by Valkorion1337 View Post
    Now Its bugged I was able to play but after reset its stating I need sub when clearly theres still 2 days left.
    Quote Originally Posted by Valkorion1337 View Post
    Hope it gets fixed before it ends
    Quote Originally Posted by Sinaa View Post
    I could play for free yesterday evening, but this morning it does not work anymore. (at least Taesalach dropped)
    Odd. I haven't had any issues and currently on an account that was inactive. Which region are you three in? NA here. Might be a region issue?
  1. uncl55's Avatar
    in EU its not working right now
  1. Stevano's Avatar
    Not explicity a complain about the way it's bugged (as expected) but more for EU servers as a whole. Since the pre-patch, the servers have been very unstable. Constant problems, errors and disconnects. The latency the last couple of weeks shoots sometimes to the moon and the game became at some point literally unplayable duo to the lag and been unable to log in because of the unstability. I think it's UNACCEPTABLE how the state is right now. Once again the EU servers are bugged while the US are fine. We pay 13 euro's a month for a proper working game and I understand nothing is always flawless but this makes zero sense. The EU servers are plagued with issues and it seems like nothing is done to fix that.
  1. Tomana's Avatar
    Sorry, not falling into your trap
  1. Sinaa's Avatar
    It started working again.
  1. MrLoque's Avatar
    A good opportunity to scratch the itch after a year or so. Managed to play an hour before starting to feel the usual "hamster wheel" thing.
  1. Tatakau's Avatar
    Still unable to play in the UK.
  1. TheDeeGee's Avatar
    Just tried it after 2 years clean...

    Man does this game age badly, the animations look so stiff... YUCK!
  1. Baneto's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Ticj View Post
    Keyword being "inactive accounts" here.
    That is something a multiboxer would have plenty of.
  1. MrLoque's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by TheDeeGee View Post
    Just tried it after 2 years clean...

    Man does this game age badly, the animations look so stiff... YUCK!
    Everything does, to be honest. I still follow the news because.... Feelings. But every time I give it a try (once again) I can't get past 10-15 minutes of gameplay. People are praising the new starting zone and I feel lost: what does it make it so good? The game surely needs some decent updates.
  1. Tuor's Avatar
    Really, Blizzard giving something for free. Well, for me, my computer isn't within the minimum requirements.
  1. Cavox's Avatar
    Oh boy I can't wait for the next quarterly report where they boast about their MAU numbers.
  1. Sinaa's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Tuor View Post
    Really, Blizzard giving something for free. Well, for me, my computer isn't within the minimum requirements.
    So? WoW runs on anything, the min req is for raiding Mythic at reasonable settings.
  1. Inoculate's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Cavox View Post
    Oh boy I can't wait for the next quarterly report where they boast about their MAU numbers.
    To be fair, Shadowlands will bump up their MAU far, far more than this. People see sinister plots where there are none.
  1. Tuor's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Sinaa View Post
    So? WoW runs on anything, the min req is for raiding Mythic at reasonable settings.
    I'm planning an emergency upgrade soon, but for now i'm playing Starcraft... Very slowly.
  1. Castration's Avatar
    Wow still seems to be free to play for inactive accounts, I just logged in without issue.
  1. CheckMid's Avatar
    How to make enough gold for token in 3 days?

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