In today’s post I’ll be showing you how you can play World of Warcraft for Free WITHOUT using illegal tools, hacks, and joining private servers which pretty much suck for the most part (don’t ask me why). Let me just clarify a few things first before I show you how to do it, the LEGAL and SAFE way.
I already paid for the game why should I pay every month?
I this all the time in forum postings, especially in Yahoo! Answers. Okay first and foremost we all (I hope) pay for the game itself. Quite understandable if you think about it, the costs involved in developing such a Massive multiplayer online experience, such as WoW is enormous. It must run in 6 to 7 figures not and that’s just for the development of the game. Blizzard still has to shell out money for distribution and marketing (although I wouldn’t worry about the marketing part, the Warcraft franchise has been one of the most successful game franchises in PC game history).
Okay so why pay the monthly fee? Blizzard has in-house servers that run the World of Warcraft, those servers handle everything that happens in Azeroth (and in the Outlands for Burning Crusade users). They also store information regarding your character, your equipment, etc. There are just so many things it’s quite useless to list all of them.
Blizzard also has to pay for bandwidth costs! I wouldn’t be able to know exactly how much Blizzard is spending for bandwidth but I’m going to give a rough estimate (it’s a very rough one indeed as I do not have the right figures but only estimates).
According to this site on the average World of Warcraft will take around5-10 megabytes per hour of play. Let’s say the average player plays for around 3 hours everyday so that’s 15-30 megabytes per day.
In turn every month the average player would have used 450-900mb of bandwidth. Okay assuming that bandwidth costs are variable, according to this link , That kind of bandwidth would cost on the average $1 per gigabyte.
But there are over 8 million players playing World of Warcraft. If Blizzard is spending $0.50 per gigabyte of bandwidth every month. They would be shelling out at least $4 million every month on bandwidth costs ALONE!
A lot of you would probably dispute these figures and it is OKAY. I put on some figures not because I want to show you how much Blizzard is spending for you to experience the World of Warcraft but to give emphasis on the fact that it does cost A LOT OF MONEY to be able to provide such a unique and engaging gaming experience.
$15/month isn’t so much but for those who want to play “guilt” free without thinking, “there goes my $15″ every month. Then I have a simple tip for you.
How to Play World of Warcraft for “Free”
Okay before you do this I suggest that you get to level 30 first before you actually do this. Why? Because starting level 30, your earning potential in the game in terms of GOLD starts to increase: you have a higher gathering skill (presumably), you have more experience in trading using the Auction House so and so forth.
All you really have to do is to earn 100 GOLD within the span of two or three weeks and then sell it using a third party website that is offering to buy your gold. Why 100G? Because on the average 100 Gold will be bought at around $15 on the average.
So if within the span of a month you were able to gather 100 Gold, sell it to a third party site, then you would have some money to PAY for your monthly World of Warcraft bill. Not too bad?
In reality, what’s really happening is that you’re creating money out of virtual Gold in order to pay for your monthly bill. You’re playing World of Warcraft any way, why not spend a few days farming for gold for your monthly bill? It takes a little work and a little patience to pull it off but at least you won’t have to worry about $15 you get some experience points too. Not bad eh?
Who do you sell your gold too?
I only know of two sites that buy gold and are reputable at the same time:
You can go ahead and visit Sparter.com and Offgamers.com

I seem to be leaning towards recommending sparter.com over offgamers since offgamers sometimes doesn’t accept gold buy backs. On the other hand sparter allows you to post your offer so Gold buyers can check on your rates and deliverability times.
You get paid via Paypal and all you really have to do is wire transfer your Paypal money to your bank account and there you have created money out of thin air (well not really) to pay for your World of Warcraft account.
It does get easier when you have level 70s in your character roster as there is more gold in the outlands. Generally the higher the level, the easier it gets to farm for gold. In effect, the more you play, the more you can play for FREE.
Cheers!