Blizzard restricting WoW token purchases on November 21st

[Snipy-faerlina]

@Peeporiot-benediction

prevents them buying any further wow tokens

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…

@Cauchy-heartseeker

This could come from stolen credit cards, or a hacked account.

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:

@Kaivax

• Players will no longer be allowed to purchase a WoW Token from the Auction House or the in-game Shop for gold if they have not spent real money to purchase and consume at least 30 days of game time (a “Time Limited License”) since 2017.

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:

@Kaivax

After November 21, 2023, any player who cannot purchase a WoW Token for gold in-game will need to first purchase and consume at least 30 days of game time for real money. This can be done on any World of Warcraft account across the player’s Battle.net account to qualify.