The Restrictions for anyone who is on a trial account are as follows.
- Characters that are created cannot be leveled beyond 20. (Keep in mind the max level today is 120.)
- The maximum amount of gold your characters can carry is 10 gold.
- The maximum amount of skill you can obtain in any profession is 100.
- The only people who can see you /says and /emotes are any players who are not 10 levels above your own level. (This means the maximum level players can be before the can no longer see your emotes or /says is 31.)
- The only players a trial account user can whisper, is anyone who happens to have that specific character on their friends list.
- Players of a Trial account are not allowed to make use of Auction houses, Mailboxes, or any form of trading between players.
- Trial account players cannot join or create any guilds.
- Trial account players are unable to access Trade, Local defense, or General chats in any zone.
- Trial account players are unable to invite people into parties.
- No pet battling.
07/01/2011 06:17 PMPosted by Solaru- Voice chat disabled on Starter Edition accounts.
- Realms experiencing login queues will prioritize players who have full, paid accounts.
- Starter Edition accounts are not eligible for character transfers
- RealID features are disabled on all Starter Edition Accounts.
For Veteran Account players, the only difference is that a Veteran account can join a guild that one of their other characters is already in.
The reason this is being posted is simple. It has been very rare for me to be able to find anyone who understands the idea of a level 4 not having says or Emote during RP because of them being a Trial or Veteran account. Players who do not understand this, end up getting offended with the Trial or Veteran account owner even though they have no control over these restriction. This needs to stop.
It's hard enough already as a player who is using a restricted account without players who are not attempting to understand the situation, getting hostile towards these players and completely ruining the game for our newer and Veteran players.
Before a GM tries to shoot this down if they have a reason to... Keep this in mind. It's true that these users who use Trial or Veteran accounts are not paying anything, but they are still players and should be respected just as much as the players who do pay. I'm not saying remove the limitations... make people aware of the restrictions. There are players who don't know about them simply because they never had to put up with it. This makes them ignorant towards those players who do use those trial and veteran accounts and will not think twice about putting them down for something they have no control over. You can tell them to report those player all you like, but at the end of the day..... There are a lot of players who don't know about them.
MAKE PEOPLE AWARE OF THE RESTRICTIONS.
I'm doing so myself, starting with this thread.