{"id":11189,"date":"2011-04-08T13:06:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T11:06:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"world-of-warcraft-free-to-play-week-for-recovered-warcrack-addicts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/11189-world-of-warcraft-free-to-play-week-for-recovered-warcrack-addicts","title":{"rendered":"World of Warcraft free-to-play week for recovered Warcrack addicts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s been about two years since I turned my back on Azeroth. It was a difficult by necessary move, and I fully understand the perils of being a World of &ldquo;Warcrack&rdquo; addict. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a bit like having a second job that you don&rsquo;t get paid for,&rdquo; is my default answer for people who ask me what WoW is like. The worst part is that you stop caring about other games.<\/p>\n<p>So when I received an email designed to lure me back into the fold, I couldn&rsquo;t help but feel a mixture of excitement, trepidation and pure, exhilarating fear.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We noticed that you have not played World of Warcraft for awhile. Claim your 7 FREE days of game time!&rdquo; were the words it cunningly waved in my face.<\/p>\n<p>The offer expires on 20 April, and I will be desperately fighting the urge to not click on the supplied link.<\/p>\n<p>For those who have never savoured the sweet taste of defeating an elite boss in one of WoW&rsquo;s end-game raids, or been called a &ldquo;noobtard&rdquo; by a thirteen year old Swede, you can get your own ten day free <a href=\"http:\/\/eu.blizzard.com\/en-gb\/games\/wow\/ \" target=\"_blank\">trial here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Beware though, the patches are gargantuan and the WoW pull-factor mighty.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7 days of free game-time for ex-WoW players<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}