Im in the same boat. Who knows… I might have bought 1 month in that entire time… but I have absolutely no clue.
It means fresh accounts (mostly retail) can’t get their very first game time from a token. Has to be paid normally. Its 100% anti-botting.
Then they shouldnt have the WoW token? But I would bet subs would be even less than they are because no one wants to pay for what Blizzard is putting out.
In retail bot use gold to buy token and turn it into balance.
Then use BZ balance to buy code, which can send into brand new account. So it’s why a hundred thousand account be banned each month and bots were still flooding BG like what we saw this summer
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Then the incentive to bot is greater because it becomes even more profitable.
You can never stop them, you can only make it increasingly more difficult or inconvenient to bot.
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If you can never stop them then why bother trying to?
Because doing something is better than doing nothing at all.
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No, i think the main reason is Wow token is bringing profit to BZ.
You must spend 20$ to buy a token, then sell it to someone ingame.
The buyer, whatever they use it (balance or game time), only earn back 15$. So for each token used, BZ have 5$ profit.
There 's no reason to cut own profit, just cut the way they dont want to share profit (the more bots keep RMTing by selling gold, then the less token BZ could sell, assuming gold demanding doesn’t change). Anyway, it’s good news for players.
Blizzard gets more money from a token than they do normal sub time so this makes little sense. Maybe it has something to do with chargeback disputes.
A better solution though would have been to not sell boosts in the first damn place.
Nah, according to the President of Blizzard they don’t make money off the Token. 
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Depends on what it is. Some things its better to do nothing than that something.
Plus the gold is already in the economy unless they catch it before its sold. The prices to the token and things in game arent going to get any better because a 1 time charge of 15 dollars per account.
Its not even like the people that are running these bots cant afford to pay the 15 since people are absolutely buying the gold.
Thats a load of hogwash. They make 5 dollars on every single one. Why would they do it in the first place? If it was a negative for them they wouldnt do it, if it was neutral, they wouldnt do it. Its a positive 100%. Its a 33% increase in a normal sub.
• 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.
why exactly 2017?
why not 2016? or 2018?
Maybe that’s as far back as their data goes.
Battle.net balance was added in 2017.
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Well, that explains it then.
If I use two accounts, will I be eligible for both with one payment?
the main reason for wow is to make profit for Blizzard
Sounds like they just want customer’s to spend $20 for a month, rather than $14.99. Just another shameless money grab, for … reasons.
Why would they need to buy a token over 1 month of game time?
i have bought game time with tokens since 2016 i guess. But i bought all the expansion games with real money. Do i have to buy game time with real money or buying the expansion with real money counts as real game time on this restriction?