Then that is totally fair, I assume you have much more context into the botting issue than I do. However, I feel like bots could just be made and lay dormant for a month and it just jumps over this hurdle. I don’t expect many new players to buy the game and then wait a month to play it. For that reason, I think this decision was a mistake by Blizzard. Again, there is probably much I don’t know or understand about the situation- This is just my perspective as a new player.
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They would have to pay for that month, and they typically use stolen credit cards to do so. My guess is the 30-day waiting period facilitates some level of fraud detection/prevention.
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I just can’t wrap my head around how anyone at Blizzard thought it was reasonable to make a service this inaccessible to new players. I know it’s in Phase 3 now, but at this point it’s pretty much no new players.
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Are you aware of support messaging for this? I received the automatic copy + paste message twice now on my ticket, despite asking about the SOD lockout specifically and providing proof of having over 30-days game time based on my renewed subscription dates.
If its not cleared up you should report it as a bug.
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Report it as a bug for 0 feedback or change. I don’t want to pay for a second month if I cannot be assured that I’ll be able to play the game that second month.
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Bug reports are a one way street the more people reporting it the quicker it will hopefully get looked at.
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I can tell you as a new player to the game who came to season of discovery to play with my friends this decision has 100% made me quit the game. I am locked out of certain rune quests, locked out of trading to my own accounts to help train my skills, and locked out of finishing certain quests because I can not purchase items off the auction house. That is not fun. That is not a wise decision, and that has dashed what little faith I had left in blizzard as a company. This is a complete deterrent for new players, especially ones that wanted to enjoy the classic feel of wow with their friends.
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Then leave your feedback where you have been instructed to leave it, or in the feedback box you get when cancelling your subscription.
Continuing to yell at the sky in this forum and thread may help you feel better, but there is ZERO change that can come (both in fixing possible bugs or changing the restriction) in this forum.
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There’s been feedback provided here as far as some accounts being affected,
As far as providing a bug report , it just broadens the pool of accounts if needed by the development team.
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Unfortunately, I just played this game a few days ago, and now I feel so stuck.
Can’t access AH and can’t get rune kill commands,
Very poor because I can’t sell at AH and can’t get progress for my leatherworking.
So this is the end?
I and 12 of my friends got notification of account restrictions on AH. they are already lv 50 but what’s the point? when can’t do the final content.
I thought they would stop, and so did I… thanks for wasting my time.
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s there only 30 days to wait? What will happen if after 30 days it is not fixed? there if you will help me? Why don’t they do it now?
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You report it in bug reports.
Because the dev’s have to work on a fix.
Coding takes time they have to write the code implement it in their test server and see if it works and make sure it doesn’t break something else. Then release it to live servers and hope it doesn’t break something else.
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Technically the classic account only requires a monthly sub or game time, so 15$ US for the first month.
What it adds to botted accounts is expense. Bot accounts will continue to be a problem as long as they make money, so the 2 main ways you combat that are to drive revenue down, or drive expenses up. So far all blizzards attempts to get players to stop paying them have proven to be ineffective (players keep buying what they’re selling), so this is a step to try and bring the expense required to bot up.
As for the impact on new players, I think that’s getting substantially over-reported here, as in my experience as someone who helps out new players a lot, a lot more of them go retail than any version of classic.
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As per the EULA you cannot sue blizzard.
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Then you’ll want to contact a lawyer as soon as possible to get the ball rolling.
Then cancel your subscription and stop playing. Quite frankly, that’s the only thing companies understand. Loss of revenue.
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The EULA also says that you agree that blizzard can make any change to the platform that they see fit.
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I’m doing it.
Godspeed, you litigious knight. Ride off into that sunset.