I’ve just read about the classic era restrictions and I feel like blizzard is intentionally trying to ward off returning players.
This is ridiculous and I am thinking of playing vanilla somewhere ‘more private’ if there isn’t a solution to this issue for real players. I am a returning player and leveling on a new account because I forgot the information from my old account from classic (which is fine because my server is now dead). But this is making leveling so slow because I cannot use the AH at all.
Would a GM be able to lift the restrictions on my account so I can actually play the game or should I just go to the other options (because those are free, anyways?)
This is what you are pushing your players to do, blizz. Thanks a lot.
I mean, on the one hand I can understand frustrations with being limited, but there are a few things to point out, imo…
Figuring it out should be simple, if it is indeed yours. Worst case scenario is that you forgot your email and you registered your old account under a pseudonym that you no longer have access to, and cannot prove identity for. This would be more or less akin to having bought an account that does not belong to you, even though it’s not what you did.
Otherwise, you can get your account back.
The account restrictions for Classic seem to be something that would last a month:
Might be a good time to try out HC Self-Found. And for sure yeah that sucks, but it’s also a problem that resolves itself given some time.
Anyway, of course if you just want to complain in frustration and say that the restrictions suck, then yep they do. They probably don’t do anything good or worthwhile either, or if they did have any positive impact, the time that that was the case is long passed, and it’s just a silly restriction that negatively impacts real players.
That’s exactly the type of thing that Blizzard does and has done for a long time though; make changes that have small, short-term impact on illegitimate play at the expense of long-term impact on legitimate play, and they never seem to revisit these things.
Can someone elaborate on this complaint? I don’t understand how a new account has “restrictions” placed on it if it’s fully subscribed too (which is required to even play Classic).
Surrrre just let them know which gold site you’re from as well.
Honestly if you forgot your info and have no way to recover it. Either stick it out or quit while you’re ahead. Because all this looks like is a bot being frustrated they can’t trade cheated gold for their customer lol
Every time someone comes here to post about this, I feel a fresh wave of strong dislike for the cheaters which Blizzard has blamed for forcing their heavy handed response.
This is why we can’t have nice things.
I hope the information about account recovery helps, Europaischer, and I wish you good luck.
There’s a lot of things in a lot of games like this and it bums me out sometimes. With that said, I’m not sure this particular approach is having the desired effect. Short-term, certainly, but now that the dust has settled? The kinds of cheaters I understand this to be targetting just have to sit on their account for a month before they resume business as usual.
The post that Mootwo link states that they’re experimenting with this. It’s been four months, I wonder how long they intend to run the experiment and what the results are.
