Question: RAF gametime

[mapleleaf]

Im back to wow after a long break. I see that people are using RAF gametime as a cheaper alternative to normal gametime, but I cant figure out how it works. Would greatly appreciate if someone explain.
I read something like this
"
What RAF system is?
RAF is Recruit a Friend system based on invitation which allow you to invite your friends to WoW.
Why that's important to you? because when your invited friend activate starter edition you get reward, and in this case this reward is 1 month gametime.
Whats the difference betwen RAF gametime and normal Gametime? is much cheaper especially when you buy big amounts of gametime through that system.
In other words, if you have WoW account (which was active before 18.10.2011), you can buy Diablo III for 85k ingame gold or 48?euro / 84$USD ​and buy yourself a year wow subscryption at the same time!"
(from Ownedcore)
Firstly, isnt starter edition the trial version of WoW that your RAF gets free? And the only upgrade which is the Battlechest costs $20 which is more than normal gametime?
Secondly where does the $84USD/year come from?
Thanks !

 

[jpp7]

Im back to wow after a long break. I see that people are using RAF gametime as a cheaper alternative to normal gametime, but I cant figure out how it works. Would greatly appreciate if someone explain.
I read something like this
"
What RAF system is?
RAF is Recruit a Friend system based on invitation which allow you to invite your friends to WoW.
Why that's important to you? because when your invited friend activate starter edition you get reward, and in this case this reward is 1 month gametime.
Whats the difference betwen RAF gametime and normal Gametime? is much cheaper especially when you buy big amounts of gametime through that system.
In other words, if you have WoW account (which was active before 18.10.2011), you can buy Diablo III for 85k ingame gold or 48€euro / 84$USD ​and buy yourself a year wow subscryption at the same time!"
(from Ownedcore)
Firstly, isnt starter edition the trial version of WoW that your RAF gets free? And the only upgrade which is the Battlechest costs $20 which is more than normal gametime?
Secondly where does the $84USD/year come from?
Thanks !

Well those people have some special tricks for getting the starter editon cheap / for free somehow, but I have used RaF gametime several times to all my bot accounts and its great since you farm the gold back in 1 day that you use to buy 1 month. I can suggest you one I have used to buy alot from, he is 100 % safe, but can be slow sometimes, but wont scam you atleast =)

The year thing is that if you accept that you will pay for WoW for 1 full year, every single month from when you accept it, then you get D3 for free, a mount in the inc patch (only a few weeks away) and Beta in MoP

 

[mapleleaf]

Thanks for your reply. But I might be interested in doing it myself, since I heard people can get disqualified for annual pass doing buying from RAF sellers (who get the RAF accounts banned). Thus I would still like to have specific answers to the mechanics to this RAF exploit.

 

[Altoids]

I've bought several months from an Ownedcore seller - bought 6 months for $36 just couple of weeks ago - split it up for 3 accounts and that was my 2nd order from him. I ordered just 2 months before that. Next time I'm going to buy the 12 months+ for $5 each - yep, 1/3 the price I would normally play Blizz. I also got an X-53 rocket for each of my first 2 orders (an extra $8).

You can pay him via in-game gold if you want to (on 'most servers') but honestly, at that low price, I prefer just to pay via PayPal...

I asked him if there's a limit on how many months this can work for a single account - he said up to 20 months... I figure that's more than 1 1/2 years... for each account. Works for me!

 

[jpp7]

I've bought several months from an Ownedcore seller - bought 6 months for $36 just couple of weeks ago - split it up for 3 accounts and that was my 2nd order from him. I ordered just 2 months before that. Next time I'm going to buy the 12 months+ for $5 each - yep, 1/3 the price I would normally play Blizz. I also got an X-53 rocket for each of my first 2 orders (an extra $8).

You can pay him via in-game gold if you want to (on 'most servers') but honestly, at that low price, I prefer just to pay via PayPal...

I asked him if there's a limit on how many months this can work for a single account - he said up to 20 months... I figure that's more than 1 1/2 years... for each account. Works for me!

Its up to 20 accounts per months or something it resets the invite thingy as far as I remember atleast.. not like it matters for the next long time anyway though!

 

[l337pally]

The way that i heard how it works, first they make you send a seperate RAF invite for each month, the seller is making new accounts for each invite you send, they are then selling those accounts to chinese farming companies, the gold they receive is also being sold to chinese companies, some how these people have a deal setup so $ for account + gold = profit

 

[Altoids]

The way that i heard how it works, first they make you send a seperate RAF invite for each month, the seller is making new accounts for each invite you send, they are then selling those accounts to chinese farming companies, the gold they receive is also being sold to chinese companies, some how these people have a deal setup so $ for account + gold = profit

That makes sense... especially when you figure that they could level a toon to 85 within 2 weeks (reasonable play time for each account) or longer (for a better geared toon) and then sell the account with the toon to a company...