Posting on a public forum isn’t trolling
Whether you think it’s bad or not, this isn’t a new restriction with the anniversary servers. This was implemented with SoD back in April, so the idea that the anniversary servers were “falsely advertised” or anything of the sort is straight up wrong
To be honest you probably have no wow skill anyway.
You’re either average or below average most likely
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As someone who played and raided top tier content in EQ1… to suggest that you need much skill at all for WoW is comical.
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Codify:
I am but a mere forgotten relic who was looking to relive some great child hood experiences in the beloved world of Azeroth a wee lad that experienced original Vanilla and TBC with green eyes awe struck by the adventure, vastness and endless opportunity for friendship and camaraderie.
While my return was extremely short-lived due to unforeseen account restrictions forcing my hand. As a farewell I felt remis to not share the feedback I provided in my customer ticket in hopes that future change is possible to better the experience for legit returning/new players:
I will preface this by saying I understand the golden era is gone back when the devs, GMs and support were intertwined and connected to the heartbeat of the game and the players. A true conduit that could action change and assist the life blood of the game (the players) with a genuine strive to do so, as in large players them selves that shared in our love and passion of the game. It saddens me that the support experience has been relegated to a mere formality now.
I digress and would be remiss to at least not provide feedback (despite knowing it will fall on deaf ears). While I applaud and wholeheartedly stand by any action to combat RMT and bots which absolutely destroy the experience for legit players the current implementation is poor and completely destroys the playability for legit returning and new players which are such an integral part for the health of the game.
It is possible to target RMT in a more elegant way that would still leave the game playable for new players
Mail:
Drastically limit any gold and items sent or received on a sliding scale based on level to other players.
This effectively targets RMT the same way but leaves the game still playable for new players.
AH/Trades:
b) There also is a huge gap now cause accounts can sell items in the AH so that means bad actors could list cheap items for huge gold amounts to acquire illicit RMT gold then wait 26 days to further propagate the cycle. A restriction on quantity and value of listed items would need to be imposed on a sliding scale based on level.
New player experience:
b) Unable to legitimately trade and buy from the AH makes progressing infinitely harder unable acquire simple things like bags, items for quests, basic consumables, etc
c) Can’t even at the very least give things to friends/party members which have marginal to no value in the initial leveling curve of the game.
A clear and explicit disclaimer should have been provided when buying gametime indicating the account falls under these restrictions. I am not even sure how you are able to retroactively do this without the consumers prior knowledge in essence completely blind siding them and altering what should be a contract.
An honorable point I would also like to add is that these restrictions also go against the fundamental social construct of the game of why most of us love the original iterations of the game in the first place. These restrictions effectively relegate me to a beggar with a sheer reliance on my friends gifting me things without any means for legitimate reciprocation and this bothers me to the core. I derive sheer joy from being a contributing member to my friends and group instead of a liability and this was the tipping point for me.
They havent put a dent in RMT as of today so its absolutely bonkers that they dont remove these restrictions.
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I’m sad to say that something is not quite right here … if you are really a newcomer or rather returned player to WoW, how come you’re allowed to post links to 3rd party websites such as Imgur? You need a high trust level to do so. And no such page is found when I try and go there.
Codify:
See some old screenshots of my GM warrior:
https://imgur.com/a/KHypNt5 https://imgur.com/z3Fipiz https://imgur.com/nWBYIrs
I achieved hitting level 20 in the first day of play. I assure you I would have hit 60 faster then the majority of the player base. I cleared my schedule to hit my first 60 within the first 65-80 hours of in game time (which I would have done in a week).
I even get an error notice trying to post this. I had to make the link embedded to be able to post the quote.
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Eq 1 has no top content.
It’s literally just hateful strikes lmfao
I got the same restriction I worked around this by posting it like this:
See some old screenshots of my GM warrior:
<link>https://imgur.com/a/KHypNt5
<link>https://imgur.com/z3Fipiz
<link>https://imgur.com/nWBYIrs
They aren’t actually clickable links but it allowed me to by pass the restriction and post the string content vs an actual clickable hyperlink. If I just try to do it normally I get the same restriction.
See new screenshot which shows the restriction
https://imgur.com/vhrkdXn
Go main a bard then tell me wow requires skill to my face.
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Which is why I agree you have every reason to be annoyed at the circumstance, however it isn’t Blizzard’s responsibility to remind you of every single policy change they’ve made since the last time you, specifically, subscribed
It actually is a service providers responsibility to be explicitly clear on what you receive when you purchase something.
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Yeah, which is what they did when they informed us that the policy was going into place back in April
Sucks you weren’t around for it, but they told us
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Go do mythic raiding and tell me eq isn’t a joke.
Bard has it easy what are you even saying you literally have a script that rotates songs, it’s built into the game rofl.
Molten Core is harder than anything in EQ and thats saying a lot.
Literally every early eq fight is a tank and spank with only hatefuls, it’s so damn boring.
You just wanted to talk about yourself. lmao.
That’s not actually how informed purchasing works.
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Alright, if you want to get as technical as possible
With a single subscription you can access World of Warcraft and WoW® Classic, including 20th Anniversary Edition, Cataclysm Classic, Season of Discovery, and Hardcore Realms.
So by your logic, none of us should be able to trade with other players, period, because it isn’t promised in the subscription description. The only thing included in a subscription is access to the game servers
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and “access to the game servers” doesn’t even mean you can play them whenever you want
