World of Warcraft is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), developed by Blizzard Entertainment. World of Warcraft or otherwise known as WoW is a game lay down in the Fantasy Warcraft Universe. This online game is presently the most subscribed massively multiplayer online role-playing game, having a 62 percent MMORPG subscription market, which has 3-D graphics. As on now, World of Warcraft has more than 12 million subscribers. World of Warcraft has won many awards from both critics and media, including Editor's choice award. Last year, WoW has been ranked eleventh in the Top 200 Games of all Time. Since it is a multiplayer online game, it allows many players to come collectively online and battle against each other. It can be played at the player's own pace, only for hours, or for weeks.
In order to play WoW game, the player must have a World of Warcraft account. To get a World of Warcraft account the, the player need to pay for a subscription. With every World of Warcraft accounts, there is 30 day free subscription period. The subscription payment of each World of Warcraft account can be by done through a prepaid card, or by using credit or debit card. The subscription fee options can be monthly, quarterly, or half yearly. But prepaid cards of various lengths are obtainable both from retailers and from online. Everyone has the choice of trying the World of Warcraft accounts free trial game offered by Blizzard. The trial version is limited to 10 days only. After the trial period World of Warcraft accounts will expire automatically. At the time of creating the World of Warcraft account, the player is requested to choose a username and corresponding password. Whenever that particular player plays the World of Warcraft, the username and password needs to supply in order to start the game. The major thing which has to keep in mind is never login to a World of Warcraft account from public computers such as, internet café, hotels etc. This is because; the end user is not permitted to keep more than one account. When two or more person login from a single public place, the authorities will think that, there are many Worlds of Warcraft accounts, and it will lead to termination of such accounts.
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More than playing the game, the Gizzard has provided a discussion forum for the players. The World of Warcraft account holders more often participate in this virtual community. The community forum is strictly monitored by the Blizzard. In September, 2006, Blizzard has to close down more than 76,000 World of Warcraft accounts since these account holders where violating the terms of use. Hence the player must take sufficient precaution when buying a World of Warcraft account from the online market. Some of these fake online sellers use their personal servers instead of official Blizzard servers, for hosting this World of Warcraft accounts and its characters. This is the breach of end user agreement. The promoters of World of Warcraft accounts offer money to the online retailers, so that they can trade these accounts to the new users.