Account Restrictions for New Players - Season of Discovery

Classic Posted 2024/04/08 at 6:15 PM by Ease

purchase of WoW tokens announced in November of 2023

Hey all, and sorry for the confusion.

We currently have a restriction on new accounts playing Season of Discovery, similar to the purchase of WoW tokens.

Blizzard Support

Can't Trade, Mail, or Use the Auction House
Why you may not be able to trade or mail gold from your character, or use the auction house.

This means that if this is your first time adding game time on your WoW account (and if the game time was added recently), you will not be able to trade with other players, use the auction house or in-game mails.

Once this period of 30 days has ended, the restrictions will be lifted automatically. If you’re still seeing restrictions after that however, you will need to log out of your account for at least 12 hours.

Hope this clear things up. 🙏

Edit: Thank you to the players who reported seeing the restrictions after following the above instructions. This has been forwarded to our developers.

Just to be clear, this is intended for Season of Discovery realms only.

I’ll try to follow up on this as soon as possible!

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Comment by NiniannBlizz trying to crack down further on RMT and bot accounts, I respect that.Comment by dem0ndeathBoooooo Blizzard!Comment by ExiusThis is too restrictive. Basically dont bring your friends or family in to game with you. you wont be able to really interact at all with them and that feels real bad.Comment by DarkLinkUmbreonGet the bots outta hereComment by confettisconesThis is too restrictive. Basically dont bring your friends or family in to game with you. you wont be able to really interact at all with them and that feels real bad.Comment by 14kkI agree that this move prevents the bots to a great extent
But the new player without using action seems to close half the game for himComment by BegroovedThis is too restrictive. Basically dont bring your friends or family in to game with you. you wont be able to really interact at all with them and that feels real bad.Comment by 2526346The best way to prevent botting is to empower players with personal gathering nodesComment by ElectricmurlocsIt's good Blizzard is trying to crack down on bots and other types of bad behavior but they really should try something resembling rate-limiting rather than outright blocking. Sure block new accounts like that for the first week or 5 days but after that rate-limit them, prevent them from doing more than x actions per day regarding those methods used to transfer/launder gold and interfere with the game or sending more than x gold, etc. It would require reworking some things on their end no doubt but it would be a much more robust tool and they could more gradually lift the restrictions as the accounts age.Comment by yaaerieperfect for goldbuyers with second account love itComment by TastelikelemonGreat news ! As an idea it would be interesting to make friend referals to not be affected by those restrictions , this way if new account is caught in RMT or similar activities that violate TOS - to ban all the accounts associated with this referal link if they decide to abuse it.Comment by taurentippinVery few new players play classic, this is a welcome change.Comment by TryndisThis is too restrictive. Basically dont bring your friends or family in to game with you. you wont be able to really interact at all with them and that feels real bad.Comment by Paz87OR - and hear me out - hire some GMs?Comment by blueingThis is too restrictive. Basically dont bring your friends or family in to game with you. you wont be able to really interact at all with them and that feels real bad.Comment by blueingThis is too restrictive. Basically dont bring your friends or family in to game with you. you wont be able to really interact at all with them and that feels real bad.Comment by Koryn99Blizz trying to crack down further on RMT and bot accounts, I respect that.Comment by SsatenethVery heavy handed. It will catch TONS of bots, but leave legit new players to fend for themselves for an entire month. Might turn them off from playing SoD.Comment by astleyt07Wtf is this %^&*? I had a friend join WoW/SoD 2 weeks ago and he really enjoyed it. Now since 2 days he cant use the AH, trade or do anything with other players. He lost his interest and not will continue playing (which I completly understand, he is now lvl 45 and has a lvl 12 green cloak because HE IS NOT ALLOWED TO DO ANYTHING) What was your @#$%ing idea with this? so that literally no new player will start SoD ever?
Sod was a perfect way for new players. Not this oldschool, longtime classic grind but fast leveling with easy endgame. Also not the retail diffeculty. I maybe could have convinced more friends to try WoW with SoD as start. But not with this change. BIG LComment by blueingWtf is this %^&*? I had a friend join WoW/SoD 2 weeks ago and he really enjoyed it. Now since 2 days he cant use the AH, trade or do anything with other players. He lost his interest and not will continue playing (which I completly understand, he is now lvl 45 and has a lvl 12 green cloak because HE IS NOT ALLOWED TO DO ANYTHING) What was your @#$%ing idea with this? so that literally no new player will start SoD ever?
Sod was a perfect way for new players. Not this oldschool, longtime classic grind but fast leveling with easy endgame. Also not the retail diffeculty. I maybe could have convinced more friends to try WoW with SoD as start. But not with this change. BIG L

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