Sounds like a very odd line to draw…
Sounds like another way to target bot accounts. I don’t think this will affect many actual players.
That actually makes a lot of sense…here’s hoping it works out that way
This is going as far back as 2017? I havent actually opened my wallet to play this game in years. Its not good enough to actually pay for monthly. I dont even know why people buy tokens.
I couldnt tell you the last time I actually bought game time. Its not going to do anything with botting. Their costs are more than covered. This really makes no sense and a loss of money for them. I dont know what they are expecting to happen to be honest.
I mean realistically this shouldn’t impact any classic player.
I assume its to prevent bots using their gold to token other bots
Bots that have been playing, using tokens since 2017, undetected?
new bots starting using gold from other bots.
aka Blizzard found out their bot accounts aren’t paying them as much as they should sot hey are forcing it.
Is it possible to use a token for another account, that doesn’t have an active subscription?
bot gets created, bot gets 20,000g per day, bot buys 5x wow token, bot creates 5 new bots with the gold he made, they make 20,000 per day, after a few weeks ur going to have thousands of bots that didn’t pay a dime, if they have to make a real payment, its much more difficult for them to multiply like this
I wasn’t aware that you could use tokens for or transfer them or gold to inactive or trial accounts.
And if that’s the case, I’d be curious as to why they would make this particular change, rather than say just not being able to use tokens or transfer gold to inactive or trial accounts.
I’m pretty sure the initial activation requires a non-token payment. This could come from stolen credit cards, or a hacked account. Tokens are just game time, at this point.
it also prevents them buying any further wow tokens to keep their membership up
Oh right… so they could buy however many now, but after Nov. 21st, once however many tokens they have run out, if they haven’t paid for that account, they will not be able to keep using tokens…
Hmm… so maybe they are trying to enforce a payment method that gives some sort of ID verification for accounts?
In any case, it doesn’t affect me personally. I paid a 12-month sub for my main account, and after the tokens came out, I paid for 1-month of sub time on my alt account (same BNet account), and then just used tokens. I’ve let that lapse, and was expecting to pay for game time if I decided to come back to it at some point in the future anyway.
It’s an interesting rule:
And from the post, it seems as though there are no additional rules going forward, and this seems to just be a one-time requirement per BNet account:
I think so, When I had a token on my main account I could use it to activate another account that hadn’t seen the light of day since Cata/Mop
The only time I’ve ever used a token was when I put it up on the AH and sold two of them to get enough gold to buy my champion tread bike. But that was a very long time ago.
I guess it’s a good thing.
It’s funny though. Instead of hiring GMs to police the game, they just make bots pay a 1-time real money fee.
Guess I’m screwed since I’ve been using tokens for game time exclusively since they came out in 2015…
Just pay for 1 month of game time and you’ll be fine.