We all have known about this since april.
I did do this. I havent used the AH at all yet. I took enchanting and tailoring to give myself bags and wands, I’m also a mage so I can just aoe farm all the cloth and greens I need. Im used to doing it from being on the hardcore servers and honestly, I did the same thing on classic era (when it was new) and retail because I want to depend on other people as little as possible.
I am just going to give them ten days and do a charge back. Until then I am just going play the support ticket game which will cost Blizzard many times what my subscription is. While not a free to play game it can be entertaining on its own!
To be frank and to make sure you and your fake engagement alts are caught up:
You said, point blank, that they did not say anything to their customer base before changing a policy
I pointed out that they, in fact, did notify you, and your only response is…shunning people who actually keep up on WoW News?
Just say you don’t actually care about any of this and just wanted attention. If you actually cared about wow policys, the restriction, or anything else pertaining to this you would have kept up yourself and would not need your information automatically spoonfed to you from multiple angles.
I mean, who doesn’t bother to keep up on a game their playing that is an active subscription of fifteen dollars a month but thinks they have a valid complaint later when the complaint involves something that has been known for months, but they didn’t bother to read or even attempt to look up before coming back or as they were coming back?
And as said before, it’s explicitly stated that its NOT supposed to be on ANY realm outside of SoD and to report it if it exists so that they can fix it, and your only response is…complaining you didn’t get a personal email about it? You aren’t as important as you think you are. Especially when you admitted to have barely played this game at all anyway
You’re as bad as the person who changed their non tier boots on retail in the catalyst and was mad at blizzard for them not receiving a tier set item piece, knowing that tier sets haven’t included boots for well over a decade and a half
FIFY
You are not we. Many people obviously did not know this. Otherwise they wouldn’t be post about it.
I play mainly hardcore SF, and I still believe this is ridiculous. These players did not sign up to play self found so, whether or not you are doing this purposefully is not an excuse for the company not providing this information before subbing… full stop.
You come off as a contrarian simping for a cheap company here…
My family and I returned to play on the fresh Classic servers. We decided to play on the European servers this time instead of US as it fits our schedule better. All of our accounts were created in 2005 and have absolutely no history of violations for gold selling or buying.
My husband and son both have restrictions on their accounts so we cannot trade amongst ourselves. I had a European sub in the past so luckily I am not restricted. These restrictions are making it very challenging to play together. Even a cursory review of the accounts in question would make it obvious they are not gold sellers.
To restrict 20 year accounts like this with absolutely no review or common sense applied really does alienate some of Blizzard’s oldest customers. Bad move in my opinion. Customer Service cannot raise these restrictions even if they wanted to. Makes zero sense to me.
The most ironic aspect of this situation is the restricted accounts can still sell items on the Auction House. I cannot understand how this restricts gold sellers. It only delays them for 30 days then the gold they collected will flood the market. Cool move there.
Edit: I posted this on the EU forums as well. It is interesting to see the difference in the tone of the responses on the EU forums compared to US forums on this same topic. We really need to be nicer to each other here in the US.
I agree. However, one doesn’t have to KEEP being nice to someone who isn’t being nice back.
Case in point: The OP.
Report it. Read the post I said twice. It does not apply to anniversary realms, only SoD realms. Report the bug that is happening and stop just posting in threads about it. That’s how it gets fixed. Blues rarely ever read random posts, especially if they are as aggressive as the OP’s post is.
It has been reported in multiple places by all three accounts impacted. We’ve filed tickets in game, posted on EU forums and now here. I provided feedback to the WoW Developers as well as recommended by the Blizzard employee who responded to my forum post. Not sure I can do much more than I have done. Ideas are welcome though.
The account restrictions DO apply to the anniversary realms as I stated clearly in my post. Sorry you’ve had a bad experience with the original poster, but that is not me so I cannot resolve the issue for you. Sorry about that.
won’t be long before they ban accounts for filing more than once ticket over the issue.
OK, that made me laugh. 
Literally changing what I’ve typed so you can argue about it is weird. I’m not going to reply to you just so you can literally change what I said. I didn’t say “I have known about it since april”, I said WE. As in the general public. That post wasn’t made in some private forum. It was posted in public to everyone and reposted on every site that reports about wow.
You not seeing it, not reading it, or refusing to read it because it was under a mode you didn’t care about literally doesnt matter and doesn’t change what it is.
Respectfully, who cares what you believe
Yall complained for over a decade that you didn’t think they were doing anything to combat bots and gold farmers.
Now, they’ve been doing something more active for over half a year, and your response is whining about how you think its too much.
No one can win with people like you. It’s either too much, or it’s too little, with absolutely zero feedback on what you think
I can come off as literally anything you want when you literally change what I say in the quote. Just so you know, if someone bothers to actually open your reply, they can tell you edited what I said because opening the quote still shows what I actually said regardless of what you try to change.
I didnt ask. The quote you are trying to fight is towards someone who said “Apply the rules to yourself and see how you like it”
Little did they know…I did. That’s literally how I play in general. You played yourself.
Perfect. You have done all you can do.
Now you either play, or you don’t play. I don’t see the issue here. Legitimately no one here can do anything differently for you. If you have reported it in the right channels so the right people can see it, there is nothing else for you to do.
No one is being mean to me.
There is you, who is, at this point quadrupling down on being wrong, and then there is that guy, literally changing what I said so he had something to argue with
Like bro, you can literally click the down arrow where he claimed I said “I have known about this since x” and literally see the text change to what I actually wrote. Or alternatively, you can literally go to the post and see it doesn’t say what they said I said.
Actually wild.
Play the damn game without trading for 26 days. You still have access to your spellbook n you can kill things n go places n grouping up, etc…
Exactly, Everything in the game can still be obtained and gotten, it’s not like you can’t log in.
As I keep saying: The restrictions are not supposed to be in place for Anniversary Realms (or anywhere else but SoD) per blizzard’s own words in April.
So report it to the right people.
then decide whether you are going to play or not.
If you are going to still play the game, and you are a caster, and a wand from enchanting is that impactful for you, then get a wand and make it yourself until you are high enough to run a dungeon for the better wands like the one from Deadmines or BFD.
If you need bags that badly and cant seem to get them to drop, get tailoring, get to 45, make your bags, and be done with it.
if you just REALLY need health potions in non hardcore, become an alchemist and make them.
Do these things only if you want to play while the restriction is still active.
Otherwise? Quit until its fixed. That’s literally your only two options after reporting. Play or dont play. Your choice.
At this point report them for fraud to the FTC or your local authorities
I literally linked it to you. Yes. It is.
Believe me, I’m not wondering. You’re just refusing to read what I post to attempt to get a rise out of me. Kind of a weird approach but even if I ignore you, I can’t exactly stop you.
Show me where I “directly said” no one. You can’t, because I didn’t.
You must be new here. Fitting since you barely play.
I linked you the post. You clearly still haven’t read it, so I mean: “You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink” —I can give you the link over and over, but if you refuse to read it, the link might as well just not be in the post, namely because you are still claiming it’s “not true” despite having both the wowhead link and the blizzard quote telling you that it is, in fact, true.
No u.
Policy states otherwise. A policy you still refuse to read despite complaining that you “weren’t told”
The fact that its been over an hour and a half and you still won’t read it makes me think you DID see it in april, you just didn’t care.
Go torture other people with your apparent lack of empathy and self awareness.
This. I’m sure there’s an argument to be made in favor of adopting this policy. There is NO justification for not telling affected players about it beforehand so they can decide if they want to live with it or do something else with their money.
Exactly. What they’re doing right now is fraud.