Buy a USB Flash drive, get WoW trial free!
by Shawn Schuster 
May 25th 2008 at 3:00PM
Filed under: World of Warcraft, Fantasy, Business models
It's not often that we talk about computer hardware here at Massively, but this story has a bit of an MMO twist, we promise. Kingston Technology Company, best known for their lines of RAM and other memory hardware, has recently announced an expansion of its USB Flash drive line with the introduction of the DataTraveler HyperX model in the Middle East.The thing that grabbed our attention the most though, is the fact that with the purchase of this USB Flash drive, customers will receive an additional free 10-day trial to World of Warcraft. This leads to the inevitable worry that WoW trials will eventually become as widespread and annoying as those AOL free-trial disks that you're probably using as drink coasters right now. Sure you can get these free trials on the WoW website at any time, but is this hardware/software trial bundle going too far?
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Ghen said on 7:11AM 5-26-2008
I loved the AOL trial back with AOL 2.5 when it would come on a floppy disk.. I never had to buy a floppy for a few years with that promotion.
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