I’m in the US and my cousin is on the EU. We’d like to play Wrath Classic together, and while the lag for me is an annoyance I can handle, I don’t see why my active sub can’t just cover an EU account.
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Umm, could it be because the EU Region is different to the NA Region? 
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From my understanding, it’s because they’re two different games, basically. Classic ties in to Retail but only to the regions the accounts are already locked to. Your US account (version A of WoW) has it’s own progress and achievements, characters, etc but an EU account (version B of WoW) would be starting over on a whole new license and would need an entirely new payment method.
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What’s it matter if it’s a different region? They can just have my sub cover both.
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They’re different regions so they’re different account types is likely what they meant.
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One word; $.
They’ll tell you that it’s “how the game is built and technical limitations make it not worth merging the two” but really they know that in this global age people are more likely to pay multiple subs to play with friends.
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currency and laws probably, i play both NA/EU it’s a pain in the backside if we are being honest lol
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Yes they’re two account “types”, but all they have to do is give us access to them with the same $15 sub. It seems a very simple fix with no significant downsides.
Right but I’m saying they’re two different versions of the game. It sounds easy cause they’re both WoW but it’s really more like, you’re playing The Sims 2 and your cousin is playing The Sims 4. Same franchise, yes, same game, nope.
I feel like I’m explaining this horribly 
I could even be wrong, I did say “from my understanding” 
There’s probably also a whole other thing with how your sub fee is really a fee to access servers and paying for a US sub doesn’t give you access to EU servers but everyone else is probably right with the bottom line just being about money.
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If it was as simple as you think it is, don’t you think it would have been done already?
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Well, as Mute has mentioned, 2 different accounts because they are in different regions. The way things work with an EU WoW account is a bit different to how things work with an NA WoW account. So, when you sub to an NA Account, you’re subbing for things related to that NA account, where with an EU WoW account, if your subbing to that, it is the same thing, your subbing to things related to that EU account.
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No, I don’t think they would have made a simple fix already.
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Cuz they are different regions. Different coding for lots of it too. And you cant even have a bnet account across both regions. Two different sets of friends lists as well. Still unable to transfer an account from one region to another. I havent played in EU for years now.
Why not? They’d make more money, and you seem to believe that’s the sole motivating factor in literally every decision the company makes.
So again, if the greedy, money-hungry corporation could make even more money by implementing the allegedly simple fix… why haven’t they done it yet?
Tell that to the EU which has a different set of rules concerning regarding how subscriptions are handled.
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Does it sound out of character to you that Blizzard would unintuitively not fix something that is simple to fix?
Not about making more money. It is because it is two separate accounts. They aren’t going to let you have one account for free.
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Given that newer mmos allow you to play in any region I would imagine wow was built the way it is for reasons that were maybe relevant in 2004 but would now be too difficult to rework
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Moneyzz . $$
Why do those “laws” only affect Blizzard though?
None of the modern games have this absurd limitation. SimCity, Among Us, Fortnite all let you easily and freely change your region.
Blizzard just wants the money, there is no legal or technical reason behind this.