I’ve been cruising on recruit-a-friend sub time for like 2 years. I don’t have another annual sub fee for like 2 years… so I guess I’m good to go?
That is good news, not just because you could still just use gold alone (without having to spend real money and link/use a credit card to your account) to satisfy the new restriction, but for me, I’ve actually done that since 2017 a couple of times, so I wouldn’t even have to do it again now, if that is how it will work.
I’m a little less annoyed now, thanks Meow for looking into that and sending in the ticket (and magically getting a relatively quick response, too!).
We’ll know for sure come next week.
/moo 
I’m just wonder is it the retail one or both
But realistically, is that really that much of a benefit?
I’d assume that they use stolen CC info anyway at the start of their whole process, and that they would just use more of them to get around this.
Granted it’s an extra step for the scammers to go through, which may slow things down for them a little and increase their costs a little to buy stolen CC info, but I doubt most of those folks are legitimately using their own personal, real credit cards when they do anything related to their scamming activities, so it’s not like they’d really feel the financial hit that much.
Plus, I still wonder how this will all work in practice. Given how Blizzard does things these days and the number of bugs and unforeseen issues with new systems that they implement lately, I can imagine things will be very messy in the short term, especially next week. Plus Blizzard is rolling this out during a short holiday week, so it’s not like they will be heavily staffed to deal with all that mess when it happens.
/moo 
Looks like there trying to stop botting not sure how that will work.
You have to have done it once since 2017 pretty much everybody has
Leave it to General discussion forms to make a big deal about nothing
If it’s to stop botting I imagine they’re also flagging and tracking people who are currently dumping excessive amounts of gold on tokens before the change goes into effect to monitor how those accounts accrue gold in the future.
hmmmm maybe they should have just removed the token all together and not completely destroyed the wow gold economy by adding it in…but hey, thats just like, my opinion man.
I don’t think that there are a lot of people in our region that will be affected. I read a few days ago that they had rolled out this new policy to Taiwan, but I haven’t heard much beyond that.