Urgent Help Needed: Auction House Access Issue

Dear Sir or Madam,

I recently embarked on my journey in World of Warcraft, having made my first purchase to enhance my gaming experience. Over the past few days, I’ve been thoroughly enjoying immersing myself in the rich and captivating world of Azeroth, to the point of sacrificing sleep and meals. However, my enjoyment has been severely hampered since last night due to an inability to perform any actions in the Auction House. My inventory is overflowing, and I’ve spent an entire day under the strain of managing my backpack, which has led to a significant amount of frustration.

The restriction placed on my account, which has only a 3G limit, perplexes me. I fail to see how this benefits the overall game environment, and I feel unfairly treated. The essence of World of Warcraft is exploration and adventure, but this incident makes me question whether my experiences and feelings are valued within this community.

I am reaching out to seek immediate assistance to resolve this issue. My hope is to continue my adventures in Azeroth without further disruptions. Your understanding and prompt action in addressing this matter would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for considering my situation and for any help you can provide.

Warm regards,

GoodCC

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So donyou have a active subscription or just trying out the game untill u have active game time you will be restricted.

Every account begins as a Starter account which has restrictions on it. Those impact social and monetary aspects of the game to prevent use of starter accounts by spammers/illicit gold sellers.

To remove Starter restrictions you need to purchase game time or set up a Subscription to play the game. Once the purchase is approved the leveling restrictions immediately lift. The social and financial restrictions will remain until the transaction completes and the bank actually sends the money to Blizzard. That can take 24 to 72 hours, but is usually faster.

You can read about Starter Account restrictions here

Edit

Here is the article on how to manage your subscription either with a reoccurring sub that bills every month (or longer), or paid game time blocks.

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You’re playing a starter account. That’s why your access is limited.

To unlock this, you need a subscription.

This was put in place so that gold farmers couldn’t just create free accounts for their nefarious purposes.

Your “issue” is by design and won’t be fixed by intervention from Blizzard.

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This doesn’t sound like Starter restrictions, but the ongoing access issues affecting the Classic iterations of the game.

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Well, this part doesn’t apply to Starter account restrictions either:

Starter accounts (and unsubbed accounts) have a limit of 1000 gold. Plus they are on a Classic character.

If this was a matter of being unsubbed, they wouldn’t even be able to access Classic at all.

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I suspect you may be running into this same issue.

Account Restrictions on AH, trading, and mail in SoD - Support / Customer Support - World of Warcraft Forums (blizzard.com)

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