This time I’m talking about what’s going to happen to prices for accounts. Sure they’re great now, but what happens when you try to buy wow accounts close to release date? Or after it? Actually, this is less paranoia and more economic fact.

What I’m referring to is the simple concept of supply and demand. You see, right now both of these factors are fairly well balanced. With no releases since Ruby Sanctum there is no real pressure to buy an account or two since you feel like you have plenty of time before Cataclysm hits shelves. But let us think about what will happen once the release date is announced. Then people will start thinking, “Boy, do I really have time to get everything I need and all of my toons leveled before then?” People will start getting a little antsy about that and the fragile balance between supply and demand will be lost. Demand will increase while supply stays the same.

(Okay, theoretically supply stays the same. There is the chance that some sites have a huge backstock of accounts that they can pull out at a moments notice, but there’s no guarantee that they’ll let us know that.)

There is also the possibility that supply will start to dry up. When that happens the balance will be further upset and the results will not be pretty. Prices will start to climb as more and more sluggards find themselves falling behind.

Then comes release day itself, and it will only get worse.

See, this little expansion includes a couple of fun surprises. Well, not really surprises since they announced it a long time ago, but it’s going to make the whole idea of buying an account kind of different for a while. What it will include is two new races all geared up and ready to go. That means there will not only be a run on the accounts just before and shortly after the release, but for some time after the release as well. That will be the result of accounts including the new races becoming available.

All in all it should make things rather interesting around there.

So like I said, you may just want to buy an account now if you’re going to. Otherwise you may not get a good chance.

Honestly, I don’t know how the crew at Blizzard finds time to sleep with all of the stuff that they keep kicking out.

Less than a month after 3.3.2, where they add a whole new chapter to WotLK, they drop another patch creating a whole new aspect to the PvP mode. If you haven’t heard about it yet, they’ve added a new queue to the Battlegrounds called Random. It does just what you’d think it would and dumps you into a random field. That way there’s no time to prep, no time to try and plan a strategy. Obviously the same strategies that you’ve used on those fields before will work just fine, but you’ll have to be ready to respond on the fly for it.

I like the challenge the whole idea presents. The only thing I don’t like is that you have to be level 80 to use it. There are tons of great bonuses for winning in that mode and it kinda bugs me that only the top dogs get to play. Of course, this doesn’t mean anything if you just go and buy wow accounts like I do. It just makes life easier. Plus if you pull an Honorable Kill on any Battleground now, it’s double the Honor points, which means more trinkets for you.

Something else worth mentioning is a little event that you can’t buy wow accounts for. The 2010 WoW Arena Tournament is set to begin in May, and registration is already open. It’s going to be absolutely amazing! The reason bought accounts don’t matter is that you create a level 80 at the time of the tournament and get to deck them out with all of the epic gear you could possibly want. Infinite gold, and the ability to use that gold to buy just about anything you could possibly want, means that you get to build the ultimate toon that you’ve always wanted. Of course, you don’t get to keep it afterwards, but that’s not a big deal. If you win the regional invitationals you get $15,000, and the global invite’s grand prize is $75,000, and that’ll buy you just about anything you could possibly want, including a pimped out account.

So keep these things in mind so that you can take advantage of them. It’s pretty awesome times.

World of Warcraft is a pretty great hobby and really appeals to people of all ages. I know since I’ve started I’ve gotten at least 3 friends hooked on it and shown countless others. For many of the people I show buying an account to get to the end-game content is a great option, but sadly there arn’t many places where they’re able to go and get unbiased reviews on the different wow account selling outlets to help them make their decision about where to buy a wow account.

I’ve personally purchased two accounts and I know both times it was a very stressful and trying experience. The overall objective/goal of this blog is to research, test, interivew past buyers, and monitor some of the bigger names in wow accounts and present that information to you; someone who’s looking to buy a wow account. To kick start the blog on good note I’ll highlight a company I purchased from previously; Toonstorm.

Now believe me I was just as worried as the next guy about Toonstorm scamming me when I bought my first account. All you hear is horror stories about these chinese companies who have horrible service and do whatever they can to get your money and abandon you. Luckily for me that was not the case at Toonstorm. When I went to their buy wow account page there was, of course, a pretty good selection and a live chat button which was the first thing I checked out. After about 5 minutes of chattin with the CS rep about the method and level of security they use in handling the accounts I was convinced. I made a purchase and within an hour I had a fresh account and the character on it as promised. Since then I’ve talked to several people who have not been so lucky.

Thanks Toonstorm for treating me right!

I’ll get some statistics up and an official review of some large wow account sites very soon! Thanks for reading and keep comming back!