Chill, I suggested playing TWW, not stealing kidneys from orphans.
The more likely non-drama queen reason is that no one buys gold on retail whereas classic wow gold scarcity fuels a lot of botting and RMT. This policy by Blizzard hurts very few legitimate players but hurts botters.
Like the other poster said, the refund process is automated and @Lasermaster can choose to continue to play classic with the restrictions, choose to play retail or choose to get a refund.
people will buy anything and people will sell anything for real money in a mmo but blizzard has more than enough resources to write a process to scan accounts and how they access wow to eliminate the majority from concern.
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I experienced the same problem.
I have been playing on EU servers for ten years and wanted to try US servers for fun.
I created a new account, and now I have these restrictions without any information about it.
Unfortunately, the refund feature does not apply to subscriptions.
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Damn I didnt know gold buyers or sellers were moving countries to ban evade… That is dedication.
Found another one boys XD
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Right, sure…
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Odd, don’t remember picking up Vessel or TWW.
You never couldn’t.
I mean you can’t. Hitting level 40 in vanilla on a warrior is very difficult (without dying at least), and you’re sitting here whining about level 10 consumes. If you’re this upset at level 10 consumes, clearly, you won’t make level 40 in the month you claim is going to be so detrimental to you.
No one cares. Take it up with gold sellers/buyers. Thats why its happening.
You don’t get to whine about them, and then whine when blizzard does something to combat them lmao.
No you don’t. You don’t get to have your cake and eat it too. Either you’re upset blizzard is doing what you perceive as nothing to combat gold selling/buying, or you’re upset about them doing something that will inevitably affect brand new accounts/inactive accounts (which is nearly all they use to farm and sell the gold in the first place and its how people circumvent getting banned for buying gold by using a dummy account to transfer it via methods like an AH buy to digitally launder money). You physically can’t have both and be taken seriously.
You’re paying for access to the game, that’s it. You got access to the game. That’s all the subscription is. It’s the same reason that, for decades, blizzard did nothing about GDKP until people leaving from it hurt their bottom line, has done very little about griefers in hardcore, and did nothing about ninja looters and gankers in pvp. It’s all access to the same game.
Give an example.
The only true and fair thing you’ve said.
You don’t pay the other players of this game anything. Also who is this we? So far its just you.
You’re paying for the sins of others, that’s life. After 25 years, we’re still taking our shoes off at the airport.
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Project much ?
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You are completely delusional if you think those restrictions hinders bots and gold selling market in any way.
On stitches-EU you would see the exact same characters botting over and over. You would see them bashing wolfs/spider in darkshire. Every player that came across them would tell you that they reported a bot as it is incredibly obvious how they operate and would see the exact same character botting 20ish lvls later in Tanaris farming the exact same basilisk spot over and over again.
Blizzard do not give a sh*t, they do not ban them because bots pay subs too.
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WORSE… those of us under account restrictions can actually buy gold from these sellers because those gold sellers can trade it to us! I have mentioned it before and I will repeat it, on a discord channel I am a member of people are selling in game goods, namely bags, for real money and others are buying them. all because they cannot obtain them properly in game.
Way to go blizzard, you created a system that only benefits RMT transactions.
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nah, we are paying for the ineptness of blizzard. rmt accounts, gold sellers, create accounts with such frequency they would never be impacted by these account restrictions as they always have new ones in flight under the prospect existing selling accounts will be suspended.
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Just the heads up after several tickets, they were finally forced to give me a refund. They wrote to me like they were doing me a favour lol. Anyways, good luck to you guys getting yours and good riddance to this joke of a company.
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They aren’t new accounts. It’s not the same process at all. The restrictions hinder new accounts or long deactivated ones, current accounts fall under neither distinction. They also, for years, have literally told you when they’ve done a ban wave and how many accounts they did. Either they’re lying, or they actually did and there are just that many accounts in a game that has had, at its peak, 12 million unique accounts playing it at once.
Try again. That’s not what I said. However, yes, just like in real life, if enough people do a bad thing, everyone else pays the price, the airport example directly under you is a precise example of that.
Somehow I doubt it.
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It was, it was similar to the change that occurred with wow tokens. Account Restrictions for New Players - Season of Discovery - Wowhead News
In b4 you cry that it’s a wowhead article and refuse to click it, even though it links to and contains the message from blizzard, like all articles like this do, and is still relevant and correct information that comes DIRECTLY from blizzard. The original post was back in April
Just because YOU didn’t see it, or didn’t think it pertained to you, is irrelevant. However, if you’ll read, you’ll notice its supposed to only exist for the SoD realms. So if it exists outside of the sod realms, what you should do, instead of being a big baby and throwing Vitriol at blizzard, is report it, because its not supposed to be happening. That’s not what you’re doing here, you’re just throwing a tantrum, being verbally abusive to anyone trying to tell you otherwise, and threatening to quit. If this is what you do when you’re affected, it’s no wonder most people are telling you to just quit.
So can you. We all know, directly from blizzard, that this is not the only thing they are doing, even though you like to act like it is.
This would be the best course of action, look up the information yourself, look at it from a non-hurt perspective and at a perspective of why they are doing it, and report a bug that is occuring instead of throwing a tantrum. You will “get your way” much faster than doing what you are doing now.
If all you’re going to do is throw a purposefully uninformed tantrum, then yes, I concur with the other people, quit and don’t post again.
Cause honestly, if this is what you do every time, it will never be productive for anyone,
I mean, if your name is of any notice, it’s clear how you deal with normal conversation…well that and posting on multiple alts to make it look like your threads are actually interesting.
If you got a refund then your ability to post here would instantly be taken… Cause you need a sub to post.
So this is false already xD
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Lol. So even now you’re tripling down on being wrong despite me literally giving you the link you said didn’t exist that is just reporting on what was said in blizzard’s official forums. That’s wild that you can’t just admit you were wrong.
Literally giving you a link to a blizzard employee’s direct quoted post isn’t “defending daddy blizzard” it’s showing that your statement that they just randomly changed a policy and didn’t tell anyone was false.
Did it seriously take you 3 edits to say what you said? I’m assuming it doesn’t even matter if I give you the post the article links to huh: Account restricted - Support / Customer Support - World of Warcraft Forums
Guess where that is. HERE
While everyone else can get one and it makes leveling much faster at low levels. You can’t deny that.
It’s ridiculous that the system that flags someone as new and places restrictions on their paid game essentially treating them as trial accounts can’t advise them of this issue when subscribing.
In my opinion it’s no better than bait and switch.
Also, if you and others think this is no big deal, pleas give yourself these restrictions. I’d wager that you would change your tune about this in short order.
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