I got a refund for my epic edition since I got the Collectors edition. Got the amount back in bnet balance. I topped it off and have enough to get a years worth of time. The system has no option to buy 12 month game time with bnet balance. Is there a way I can accomplish this?
Not as a subscription, balance doesn’t work for a renewing sub. There prepaid blocks of 60 days under game services though.
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So I wasted my money? I mean the entire point was to get the 12 month for the mounts. I am just sol?
You can technically buy game time with the Balance, but Balance cannot be used as a subscription method, sorry. It has to be a billable method of payment like a debit or credit card, or something like Paypal.
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I don’t get it. Why not offer a one time year payment? I get it is my fault I did not go and read all of the documentation about buying game time with a bnet balance. It just seems logical to me to allow your users to spend your money on bnet balance as the users sees fit too. Intentionally limiting users to a set purchase type seems to be bad business.
I will just half to be screwed here. But I will just half to remember to not be so liberal with spending with Blizzard in the future. Not that Blizzard cares about that.
That’s a little outside the scope of support so it isn’t really something I can give a definitive answer on. We did at one point have a 12 month block of time that was available for a limited time. I believe the feedback was that folks wanted it to be a subscription option permanently, so they added a 12 month option on top of the 6 month one we already had.
As for the purchase. If the balance is unused and the purchase was made recently, which it does appear it was, we may be able to refund it. You’ll want to put in a refund request, the self-help automated option may allow you to refund automatically, if not, please open a ticket.
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It used to be possible to purchase gametime blocks of 1, 3 and 6 months and also limited 12 months. Due certain events (around the time of inflation?) they made it so that you can only purchase blocks of 2 months with BNET balance, and subscription is only available for 1, 3, 6 and 12.
The price didn’t go up, just the amount you could buy. But even then you wouldn’t have been eligible for promotions with gametime blocks as that is only available for 6 and 12 months subscription anyway.
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Think the justification was because botters were using their ill-gotten gold to purchase b.net tokens to get b.net balance for starting up new/maintaining old botting accounts, and removing the 30 day timecode option made that a just a little more difficult.
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Technically, no, but also yes…
Before we had: [Values rounded to nearest dollar for readability]
30 days : $15
90 days : $42 ($14 per 30 days)
180 days : $78 ($13 per 30 days).
Now we have:
60 days : $30 ($15 per 30 days)
Pretty sure the average player converting gold to b.net balance just got the 30 day option (or just directly changed the b.net token into 30 days of game time), but for someone like me, who converted gold into b.net balance for the express purpose of getting the 180 day time code, the price of game time effectively went up. 
The Dreadwake, which came from a 180 day timecode promotion: “Am I a joke to you?”
That Deadwake mount was an one time thing 
since then it has been clarified for subs only.
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