Too busy to help paying customers?

So I have an issue and when opening a ticket about it I was told that Blizzard is too busy to help. I think I’ll be too busy to pay you this month for both of my accounts. As a matter of fact I think I’ll be too busy to play WoW anymore. You should be ashamed to call yourselves customer support.

Me:
I have reached level 11 with Council of Dornogol, but there’s no quest to receive the reward which should be Carved Harbinger Crests. Please send them to me. Thanks.

I have seen the post about this that says it’s been fixed, but it clearly has not. I have not completed this quest because there was no quest available to complete.

Response from Blizzard:
Hello,

Due to a sudden influx of contacts, ticket reply waiting times may be higher than expected. In an effort to get you back into World of Warcraft faster and saving you some time this reply was created with some handy resources regarding situations where there’s no loot form a Boss:

Loot Eligibility:
After a boss is killed, you will only receive loot if your character is eligible. Your character is not eligible for loot if:

  • You didn’t actively participate in the encounter. For example, you were too far away or, in the case of dungeons or raids, you were outside of the instance
  • You were loot-locked. This is applicable to bosses with loot-based lockout. In this case, you must wait until your lockout expires before you can obtain loot from this boss (they provided a link here)

Loot chance:
When you kill a monster or boss, you are guaranteed to receive gold. An item is usually not guaranteed in any monster or boss. Some exceptions exist where a boss will always drop an item, for example, the final boss of a 5 player, non-Mythic dungeon when using the group finder. Learn more in our Loot Drop Rate support article: (they provided a link here)
Missed Loot:
While in Personal or Group Loot, loot items will be automatically pushed to your inventory if you win one. If your inventory is full or you are disconnected during the encounter, the Postmaster will send you the loot to your mailbox, with some limitations. Learn more in our Postmaster Didn’t Send Loot Support article: (they provided a link here)

(Reminder that there is no Personal Loot in WoW Classic. You must loot corpses yourself. If you skip a loot it will not be sent to your mailbox)

Keep in mind that Customer Support doesn’t assist with granting loot regardless of the reason, or assist with resetting dungeon or raid lockouts.
Thank you for your understanding.

Me:
This generic response is unacceptable. I require a n actual response from a Gamemaster. Either that or provide my loot. This is a paid service and it’s not working. We’re to busy to help you" is not an acceptable answer. If you can’t resolve this issue then cancel both my subscriptions and refund the money for both copies of War Within that I’ve purchased. I have been a WoW player for 20 years and this is the worst service I’ve ever received.

Thank you for understanding? Really? They didn’t even read it. They had no idea what my issue was. They simply hit ‘copy’ and then ‘paste’. This will be it. This will be the final straw that makes me completely give up on this franchise after two decades. I’m so tired of getting screwed over by these companies that don’t care about their customers.

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You can reopen the ticket stating u still need help keep in mind a GM mite not still be able to help if its a bug or it qualifies as a game hint.

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Yes to the first, yes to the second… but no to the third.

As mentioned in the first response, this reply was an automated sweep triggered by some keywords with the hope of getting you back on your feet faster than waiting for a GM’s response. What those keywords might have been is anyone’s guess.

You’ll need to follow up by reopening the ticket to have a GM have a look and see if they’re able to assist.

And just for the record… this is not going to work in the way you think it will. You can keep reopening it as much as you want, but they will simply mark it as resolved every time it comes up in queue and move onto the next petition. Eventually they may start taking action against you for game master harassment.

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They will respond then close the ticket if u keep opening the ticket that could get u into trouble.

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What are they gonna do? Ban the account? I’m about to cancel it anyway. They have no power over me, my dude.

They can stop ur ability to create tickets and before making threats work with blizzard instead of holding ur breath never works for kids nor adults.

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Taking action? Bro they’re not the Gestapo. They can’t hurt me lol.

No one said they’d hurt you.

Just drop sanctions on your account, is all.

As you said, you’re essentially going to quit anyway without even waiting for a GM to get involved. Ultimately you’re only going to be wasting your own time, but I suppose if it helps…

Circling back 'round to my first post before I take my leave of the thread:

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Take your leave, my friend. I appreciate your responses and meant no disrespect.

Never once did they say “we are too busy to help you”

As their very first reply to you said on the first sentence, they know it’s an automated response. Those automated responses help the vast majority of players and help keep the queue times down even more. Lots of people create tickets for stuff that GMs can not help with, for instance boss loot.

I believe you may have cut out part of their reply from your copy paste? Near the bottom (from what I’ve always seen posted and witnessed personally) has always said something to the tune of “if you still need assistance, you can reopen the ticket”.

Now this is unlikely something that a GM can actually help you with. If you still didn’t have the quest for the crests available, then it would still be bugged and the next step would be to file a proper bug report either in game via the Support menu or on the bug report forum.

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Even if the automated reply has changed so very much since I last had run into a high turnaround time - at no point does it insinuate that anyone is too busy. Just that queue times are quite high, so here are some alternative options. If none of these solves your issue, then reopen.

It’s not that they don’t care - they’re offering generic and quicker paths to resolutions rather than not responding at all until your ticket comes up in the queue several days later. I know currently appeals are over a week, but am unsure what typical non-billing/account queues are running at this time. But they don’t say anywhere that they’re too busy to help - just that ticket times are inflated and they’re just making sure folks know that and then they offer some other options while they wait.

Uh, incorrect. You pay to access the servers. You don’t pay for one-on-one interactions with GM, or customer service on any level. Server acess, that is it.

Hopefully it won’t be too much longer on your ticket response. Good luck to you.

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You seem very frustrated – totally get it, but keep in mind threats of non-payment won’t do anything other than you can’t play WoW any longer. It makes no difference how many accounts you have or how long you’ve played.

In the end this is how business works – No payment, no services.

Deep breaths, relax, stretch.
I hope it gets resolved.

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It’s odd to come in here to a support forum, where fellow players and CSRs alike try to assist others when you aren’t even looking for help. Just a soapbox.

This won’t do what you think it will. They will just close the ticket if anything thinking it’s resolved.

I’m sorry your expectation that GMs (which aren’t on this forum) drop literally everything to be at your beck and call. I’ve seen people treat hospital staff (namely nurses) the same way. It’s horrible.

Good luck wherever your adventures take you.

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The irony of your name - and this process, is not lost on me.

Triage is exactly what we are forced to do when ticket times get too high.

There are simply some things GMs cannot assist, be it by tools, or policy. A LOT of tickets fall under that umbrella. Not that we wouldn’t like to, we just cannot.

When an automated message is sent, it is clearly marked as such. This isn’t to ignore anyone’s issue. As has been previously mentioned, it’s to try to get potential help to players as quickly as possible. The ones that fall into that category are ones we are unlikely to be able to help - but there may be other resources we could direct you towards that could.

Is it perfect, no, no it is not. Does it help a majority of the cases that fall into this category, yes - yes it does.

Those that it does not can reopen contact.

GMs cannot fix bugs. GMs in most cases cannot do workarounds on bugs or provide assistance. That’s our Dev and QA teams wheelhouse. In fact, in the past when we’ve tried to force things, it has resulted in bad knock-on impact to characters. When you artificially manipulate a system, you’ve made that character an outlier to the real potential fixes. Didn’t always happen, but that is a very good reason that’s not allowed any longer without explicit instructions from our Devs. Short term ‘solutions’ can lead to very long-term issues.

If you haven’t, I would recommend you post this with as much detail as you can in our bug forum. Anything quest based, we have a Quest Forum specifically so your fellow players can possibly give you guidance if this is misunderstanding (happens more often than you may think), possible workarounds they’ve found or just brainstorm troubleshooting that may help QA replicate and isolate an issue.

I’m sorry if you think this is unacceptable, that is certainly your prerogative. If you decide to move on in your adventures, I do wish you all the best.

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Curious, does this port the person back to the front of the queue with a priority based on original filing time, or do they start at the back again?

Does Re-opening a ticket guarantee a GM actually looks at it?

Depends how its setup, Relaxok.

If you can reopen the same ticket yes, but if you need to open a new one, no. That said, when this is done it usually drastically cuts down on everyone’s queue time.

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Reopening has a higher que but all tickets are handled by a real person except the odd circumstance.

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Awesome, thanks for the info. Glhf triaging, we appreciate it :smiling_face::heart:

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