I mean, come on. In starter edition, not only can you not talk in any of the trade chats, but you cannot use the mail feature, you cannot send BattleTag requests, and you can’t even whisper to someone who doesn’t have you on their list! You can’t even use yell commands! To be honest, I think this is ridiculous.
As for part 2 of this post, I recently had a subscription that zoned out, and now I can’t play with my new LvL 43 Night elf because it is “inactive”. I mean, really? I had made a lot of plans with that character in advance!
Clearly this could be resolved more efficiently. For example, I would have given it only the privileges of a starter edition. But not being able to go on your character AT ALL? I am mostly speaking for the people who cannot buy new subscriptions as soon as they run out.
Moreover, I mainly think that some of the restrictions for Starter Edition are just flat out ridiculous.
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To prevent gold sellers from spamming their websites.
To prevent gold farming by gold sellers.
Again, to prevent spam from people from selling gold. And spam in general.
I do believe all these restrictions are also incentives to get people to subscribe to the game.
Sorry you feel the restrictions are necessary, but that’s just the way things are; a few bad apples ruin it for everybody.
(Plus, they’re still a video game company… thus need to make a profit.)
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I would like to mention that a Starter Edition account CAN queue for dungeons (the first three are available through Dungeon Finder, with Stockades and BFD being queueable individually)
AND you can use instance chat in those dungeons
AND you keep earning experience while you play so when you decided to make the purchase
BOOM YOU GET ALL YOUR SPELLS AND EXPERIENCE AND JUNK.
Also just pay 15 dollars and then do all those things and see if you felt like the time was well spent.
Quel Thalas should have plenty of jobs available in construction.
Because Arthas.
pulls blue bandana over face while Cripwalking
The humans said yall could join OH WELL.
EDITE: And I posted from my Horde toon WONDERFUL. MAN I LOOK SO COOL RIGHT NOW.
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If you’re wanting a free to play MMO, there’s a multitude of them available right at this very moment.
Starter editions are there for a taste test. A sampling. Buy the game if you haven’t, or even cheaper just subscribe if you have. It’s 15 bucks.
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If Starter Edition lets people post on the forums, then Blizz has already given away the most fun thing about this game for free.
I now see why some of the restrictions were made. However, what about the inactive characters? For the people who do not have access to a subscription right before it runs out, it is kind of annoying. Couldn’t it be reverted back to Starter Edition restrictions but not be inactive?
Wouldn’t that allow people to level up to 120 in a month, revert to starter edition, and then just play their 120 with only a few restrictions for free?
That kinda defeats the entire reason behind having a subscription based game.
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Yes. You download the starter edition of the game. When your sub runs out, you’re on the starter edition, and can’t log in to any character above level 20.