Trade Restrictions on old Accounts

I have a fifteen year old account but apparently, developers can’t have a code to distinguish an old account with the a classic HC character. After playing a bunch for a few years back in TBC and Cataclysm, I’ve returned to play classic HC with a friend.

No trade. No AH. It’s restricted. After submitting multiple tickets and confirming that my account should not have restrictions, the game masters said that they did all they could and if there were still restrictions, I’d just have to wait it out.

I’m not interested in SF. I asked for compensation of one month free, which was denied. A bit discerning that there isn’t part of a budget to remedy this issue. Account age > 1 month = no trade restrictions, regardless of game type. If there’s suspicious, botting behavior, ban me. Even a limit on AH transactions would be better than nothing.

Throw on top of that I’m very active in multiple other blizzard games…it seems like there would exist some override button to give me access. I wouldn’t doubt that a popular streamer would get full access.

/vent over. Sour taste. The GM advised me to post here in hopes that something would change.

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Did you use your fifteen year old account or do you just have one?

Sure they can, but they would chose not to for relatively obvious reasons…

Agreed, I’ve been gone since original cataclysm release, ~20 year old wow account, returning to try HC with some buddies, and nothing to be done about account restrictions. GMs were transparent in saying it’s beyond them, and stating it needs to be addressed by devs. Now i can appreciate it’s killed off the number of bots, etc. I can appreciate that part, why there are restrictions. But can it not be put within the realm of a GM that if an old af account gets reactivated, and petitions a gm to remove them for such reasons, it could be evaluated?