I’m referring to the latest response from staff that says your account has to be 30+ days old. The 12 hours doesn’t matter if your account is new.
If it’s still not working than that means that they’re still working on a full and proper fix. That needs to stay in Bug Reports.
Submitting tickets only clogs up the system and takes up time for folks who do have an issue that GMs can address.
Now, if in a few days they say they’ve fixed the issue but can’t retroactively go back and fix those borked out now? Then they may say to submit a ticket because then the GMs would be advised in how to apply the fix to the account. At this point in the game, they’re not there yet. So tickets are useless.
Post everything in Bug Reports. The more people who do, the more data they have to work with. The more data they have, then finding the issue is increased.
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This would have been fine had you said this BEFORE allowing people to pay for their subscription and start playing the game. Absolutely asinine that Blizzard decided to implement this in a random patch and not say anything or warn anyone.
A friend and I were asked buy some friends to join them in SoD, so we paid for it, started playing, and sunk almost 3 weeks of time maxing characters to catch up, only to be told that as soon as we’re finally caught up and about to hit new content that we’re completely locked out of one of the most important parts of the game because Blizzard hasn’t got any earthly idea how to properly deal with bot accounts.
So now we’ve already paid you the money to play the game, and you decide to rip the product we paid for out from underneath us.
Worst gaming execution I have ever seen… And I bought The Day Before…
At least refund the sub for people affected by this that were never told that paying for the game didn’t mean you could actually play the game.
On top of the fact that for the last 72 hours, the support chat has been providing potential “bug fixes” and even saying that the developers were aware that it is an issue on their side. Now to just be told “Sorry, you have to pay for a month, before you’re allowed to start paying for and using the product you bought.”
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Blizzard wont just aito rfund subscrtion players have do that manualy.
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Yea I feel scammed to be honest. I specifically wanted to try WoW and interact with the economy. Which I was able to do for like the first week of my account. Then it was taken away from me when P3 launched. I guess there’s nothing we can do about it either. Other than quit playing the game and giving them money.
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I’m with you. I’ve had a great time interacting with friends that I didn’t really play with anymore, and they shadow lock the account, let us sit in the dark all weekend, and THEN finally start to tell people that the paid full feature product we paid for was actually just a trial, and we have to wait a month and pay again to actually get the advertised product.
Most scammy bs I’ve ever seen.
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I had a similar path, but I started on Feb 27. Well beyond the 30 day restriction, but I’m locked out as well—sad times.
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How much effort would it be to allow new players that aren’t part of a bot farm to verify that they are real people playing the game so we can have access to AH? You guys have my real name, email address, phone number can be linked, my credit card, and you can check my game activity. You took the lazy, broad stroke approach to fixing a long-standing issue you have with bots and in the process ruined the game for new players wanting to try your game. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised but I didn’t expect to get screwed over by Blizzard in my first week of trying their product.
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And how long until that hypothetical process you’re thinking of gets bypassed by the bot makers?
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I’m not sure how it could be bypassed. There are ways of verifying if a person is real or a bot. Like me right now complaining in this forum.
How do we know you’re not a bot, though?
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I guess you got me there, Asimov.
You may be a real person, but you have not displayed any evidence of something that
a) can’t be done by a bot
or
b) can’t be repeatedly done by the person for each bot they make.
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You’re oversimplifying the issue and you know it. Blizzard has ways of doing this properly but that requires EFFORT.
oh please, enlighten us as to how that could be done in a way that Bots couldn’t overcome it
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No, I’m saying you’re underestimating the capabilities of the bots and their makers.
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I’m not going to sit here and type a 6 page essay on how to verify if accounts and game activity is legitimate or botted. If you seriously can’t understand the basic idea of verifying your ID to a multi-billion dollar company, then you severely lack imagination. Like I said though, they have all of my real identifying information already, more can be provided, and they can see my account doesn’t engage in gold farming activities.
This arguing pontless all your feed back osnt gona be heard by the developers. Want your voice heard post in the classic general forums.
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Well if you have all the answer’s i hear blizzard is hiring.
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Well, they did this in response to player feedback.
Every time there’s a change made to fight bots, there’s a spectrum of how many legitimate players get affected. In this case, it appears to have caught some, and have a few bugs with it (which should be fixed).
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