I'd like my sub put on hold until chromie time is fixed

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My whole reason for subbing was to play old expansions with Chromie Time. Chromie Time disables at lvl 50, defeating the purpose, and it’s not currently a recognized bug so I don’t think Devs are going to fix it in the next few days.

I feel cheated as chromie time does not work as advertised, due to a fine print clause that I feel is both completely unreasonable and prevents me from enjoying the game or having any willingness to play. I know that as a policy; sub time isn’t ever refunded. I knew that when I paid, so I guess I will just have to accept that I walked into it and just didn’t see this coming. But I’m hoping it will be fixed eventually and I might want to play then.

Please put my currently paid sub time on hold.

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I’m not sure if you just didn’t bother to read, just didn’t think before you posted, or your just joking, but it doesn’t sound like your joking. For the past few months I’ve been seeing videos and reading articles saying things like:

“This new feature allows content from locations like Northrend or Pandaria to scale to a player’s level, so they can adventure from level 10 all the way to 50 and experience the stories of these areas at their originally intended pacing.” -Blizz, prepatch notes & News Post

"Chromie Time is a new feature added with the Shadowlands Pre-Patch that allows players to level from 10 to 50 in any zone they desire from Vanilla to Battle for Azeroth.

Activating Chromie Time changes the player to a different phase from players outside of it, which causes all quests and objectives from Vanilla through Battle for Azeroth to scale up to level 50." - Wowhead, chromie time

So I wasn’t stretching when I thought I would be able to level all the way to 50, the level cap in chromie time, while in chromie time, and then be in chromie time.

It’s not a case of wanting to eat your cake and have it, it’s a case of having it taken away because you didn’t get enough in the time limit they never told you about until after you bought it.

‘Going back and doing it the normal way’ is not what was advertised, that’s just what chromie-time was advertised as addressing.

Imagine if you bought a car, it came with a hundred mile warrantee, and self destructed after 99 miles. “There’s no bug and there’s nothing to “fix”, you can walk and and go places 100+ miles the normal way. Nothing is stopping you. Stop being so entitled, you brat.”

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Time to calm it down a bit Aratharel, we hate to see anyone lose the ability to post. This isn’t the General Forum.

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Technically, Chromie Time ending at 50 meets the statement you quoted. The interpretation that you can continue at 50 and finish off the expansion is a legalspeak trap, but the way they worded it is not incorrect, just misleading.

Blizzard however has added the option for players to turn off XP gains at 49, thereby allowing players to finish up the entirety of the expansion they choose, before hitting 50 and being ported out by the system.

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Maybe it seems like an over reaction on my part, but I certainly would not have re’sub if I knew chromie-time requires xp-elimination and locks out zones, etc. I don’t see how those kinds of limitations were in anyway implied or any reason for them to exist, other then to purposely make it less good.

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Additionally disappoinitng (although it may just be a bug) is that you can only queue for dungeons in the dungeon finder in the expansion you choose for Chromie Time.

So for example if you choose MoP, you can’t queue for dungeons in other expansions using the dungeon finder tool.

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True, legally they technically didn’t say they wouldn’t kick you out when you hit 50. Hence my example of the car that self-destructs on the edge of the warrantee. I just assume blizzard isn’t trying to be a technically legal scam.

So for example if you choose MoP, you can’t queue for dungeons in other expansions using the dungeon finder tool.

I think that’s probably intentional, but an oversight. They wouldn’t want you to random into a wrath dungeon while ‘experiencing’ MoP. Though, if you specifically select that you want to do Violet Hold, Hellfire Ramparts, and Jade Serpant, I would think they would want to allow you to, to ensure enough people are available in the queue for less popular expansions.

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but… what’s the point to it once you’ve hit level cap?

once the expansion hits, you’ll be able to access it again.

or maybe i’m not understanding the issue

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I haven’t seen anything saying that chromie will accept higher level chars when shadowlands comes out.

It took a lot longer to get 68-80 during Wrath then it takes to get from 10-50 in Chromie-Time, which in and of itself is probably a good thing, but once you hit 80 there was still a lot left to be done.

I played Wrath at Launch before any catch-up xp changes on a DK starting immediately on hitting 68 and I went from borean tundra to dragonblight doing only most of the main quest chains and obvious quests and hit 80 after doing about half of Zul-Drak. I did that in about two weeks, and spent the next month or so finishing up dragonblight, doing various quests leading up to some of the dungeons in the zones I’d already leveld in, and running each of the dungeons a couple times. I also visited Sholozar basin because it was a dino-jungle and stormpeaks cause I wanted some shoulder enchant or something.

By the time I took a break I had done less then half the story of Northrend, not including Raid Progression 80+ content. Had I gone back and leveled a few alts I probably would have been able to fill it all in.

Going from 10-50 following the same path I did, you would probably not reach the Wrathgate before being booted or having to xp-eliminate.

The entire time I described I was finding various gear upgrades, earning rep, flying dragons, fun stuff most of which is still there, just needing a level cap to be enjoyed. XP eliminating isn’t the same as a cap, you don’t get gold/rep and you don’t progress to better gear.

Because you don’t/can’t get those things nobody will want to stay to create an economy to gather for either. Nobody will be running instances in level-cap heroic mode to gear up for raids. Nobody will create 49 and below guilds to run raids without high level oneshotters just doing it for them. If they did, they would have to pay for repairs without the gold from level-cap xp conversion.

In short, without a lvl 50 cap, only the introductions to old expansions is available.
you still miss 90-97% of the expansion.

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I’m afraid to say I think it’s less about how it was advertised and more about a simple misunderstanding of the process. I could be wrong but the way I’m reading your issue is that you think that Chromie Time works much like Classic did - locking you to that particular expansion? Which isn’t the case. Chromie Time is a system that allows any alts 10-50 to level through whichever of those past expansions offered.

And that aside, Blizzard has never suspended a subscription in this manner. You purchased the time, the time will run whether you play or not. So far as I know there has never been an exception to this except maybe (and that’s a hard maybe) for a situation of someone in military service.

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Actually, the statement quoted is incorrect by this part:

" … experience the stories of these areas at their originally intended pacing."

That’s not at all what we got. Expansions with more of a quantity of leveling content than BFA - like Wrath for example - are at a much faster pacing than originally intended.

Plus a ton of the story content for these expansions is at the level caps for them. They were not intended for the entire story to be experienceable before hitting the cap.

Also, Helcate is FAR from alone in insisting that Chromie Time not force people out at level 50. By releasing the prepatch in this state, Blizzard blatantly ignored the single largest thread on the PTR forums by view count (23.1K views at this time). I would link it if I didn’t think it might be breaking the rules to do so.

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They didn’t ignore it. They gave an option to disable experience gains. If you have an issue with that option, you need to post in General Discussion. The Devs don’t take feedback from the Customer Support forum and the SFAs here are not liaisons with them.

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Not to be nitpicky, but thread size is more appropriately measured by post count. If view count signifies anything (I don’t believe it does, not empirically), it might be thread popularity.

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I personally would like to use chromie time at level 50, just to experience past xpacs at the right level.

Just tweak it so players level 10-60 can enjoy old content. Most will choose shadowlands for 50-60, but others might not. Give us the choice.

Not everyone is a rush rush rush player. Many of us enjoy experiencing older content and new things we havent seen - even if the rewards arent as amazing as a new xpac.

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Not sure what all the hubbub about gathering items or gearing for raids is about. You are not being banned from all past raids or worlds. If you want to gather mats from Northrend, fly there. If you want to raid Naxxramas, fly there and do it.

If there is a concern about immediately get ported out at 50 to start SL content, that’s fair. Put in a suggestion to change this. It could be adjusted.

But…you can, can’t you? Just…go there and do the questline while at 50. Once you are level 50, you don’t need “Chromie Time”. You can just fly or portal to the area and you’re there.

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They didn’t ignore it. They gave an option to disable experience gains. If you have an issue with that option, you need to post in General Discussion. The Devs don’t take feedback from the Customer Support forum and the SFAs here are not liaisons with them.

Rufflebottom is correct, I have to say. As much as I like hearing a bunch of people agreeing with my concerns, this is a customer service thread. I can’t post in the general discussion forum, not sure why, but those of you who can should take post your thoughts there where the devs can actually read them.

Devs don’t read this forum. Just customer service.

Melaesia no, they only scale to the zones level range, not to 50. At lvl 50 Northrend will be scaled to lvl 30. Only BFA zones scale all the way to 50.

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That doesn’t change that you can simply fly there and farm the mats, or do the questlines.

If you would like to see it changed, it’s a reasonable suggestion. Put your feedback in the General forum so the Devs can see it.

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Right which has only been changed so that people can level up in those zones like they would have when the zones were new. That is the whole point of this system, it is to let people LEVEL in a certain expansion. It isn’t meant as a way to do old content at max level. If you want to do old content at max level you can continue to do that using the old system.

This seems to be a misunderstanding of what the system was intended for. You are suggesting that the system be different then what it was designed for.

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