Out of nowhere on the 5th, many people cannot use the Auction House, Mail, or Trade. This policy cannot stand. Even without the AH, mailing between alts is impossible. Waiting until after the refund window on many people’s subscriptions to do this was a shady practice. Increase the window for refunds for people affected by this. I never would have returned to this game with these restrictions in place.
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so… new accounts cant use the AH, trade or mailbox? if so its a great way to combat the botters. too bad new players gets screwed aswell
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I saw that policy change. If you create a new account you can’t trade or use the AH for 30 days.
This one is puzzling. Seems like a cut off your nose to spite your face scenario. Make a new players experience lesser to try to stop botting. Yikes.
We can’t get a few intern GMs instead?
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you can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs
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Players keep crying out to do something about the bots.
This is the devs solution. And it will be very effective but at the cost to new players.
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Just pay with real money every now and then and use tokens for the rest. Problem solved (allegedly).
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Interesting new policy, I wasn’t aware of that, 30 days seems a lot but if it’s for a good cause and actually help, I’m fine with that.
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I didn’t even use a token. A friend bought me 2 months of time because you can’t buy a single month for someone else while also having a subscription. If it’s 30 days from time being added, I have 10 days left. A full 30 days will kill my resub.
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We can’t do this at the cost of new players. They are going to decide in the first week if the game is worth sticking with, or not. You have to give the best possible experience for new players.
This is a very poor way to approach botting. Make new players pay the price? Bad, bad.
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I would suggest monitoring the linked thread then. As that is likely where updates on this will be posted if they aren’t posted in a Blue post later.
That main thread is full of people that resubbed in February that still are locked. That’s not very reassuring.
Lmao imagine making this suggestion and being serious.
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It doesn’t sound like a quick fix for sure, however there is more there in terms of direct information than there is here.
Oh wait, this restriction is just on new accounts not new subscriptions? As in if I resubscribe on an old account it will be fine?
If so, this change is awesome. Holy crap I hope it’s real.
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I mean this is to combat the easiest way to buy gold or move gold without being caught by using burner accounts.
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It is supposed to be for only new accounts, seems there was an error in some code/etc that rolled it out early. That’s the scuttlebutt on this anyway.
Its for SoD specifically so you stopping in Warlords is likely unrelated.
No. I stopped playing in Warlords on this account. Still hit.
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Okay, that makes sense. Hopefully they get that worked out quickly, because in theory – I love it
You were probably hit by the change last year that was something like “You need to make a RL purchase instead of tokens if gone for XYZ” or something.
Someone else can probably explain it better.
Oh same. Not uncommon to have restrictions like that for new accounts, not as common as it used to be but not unheard of.
Hopefully it does something positive to combat botting/RMT.
There’s a blue in the general chat I think hold on.
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