Ticket #1 And to be clear, the game had logged me out of another character once my subscription had expired. I then logged into two other characters that were level 20 or smaller. I even tried checking the Auction House and saw that it is cut off when you do not have a subscription. I then proceeded to enter a Battleground which leveled me. Multiple other indicators confirmed that I was locked onto a "starter account" for now.
Ticket #2 This was obviously an error in the game mechanics. My game time had expired. I was logged out of WoW entirely and upon logging back in everything indicated that I was on a starter account with full restrictions. And just to be fully fully clear, the character leveled AFTER my game time expired and AFTER I had logged out of the game and back into the game completely. Now I cannot access this character.
Both of those were included prior to Blizzard's most recent response which I'd pasted above. The more this goes on, the less likely I am to even consider Shadowlands. At first, this was a fun project to pass the time for a few months. Now I'm just getting mad and my wife is getting annoyed with me getting mad and.....
[doublepost=1588628353,1588626272][/doublepost]Alright well... I spoke to customer service privately using Twitter. They recommended I request a couple of days of game time to clean up my affairs. I guess I'll settle for that over nothing. Again.... not my preferred solution but....