Warband Bank access revoked for F2Ps & Vets

[Arpheton]

I wish they would fix that 70s are getting 80s loot-boxes. At lvl69 you get stuff you can use, at lvl70 a box that you cannot open.

 

[CroyeTchor]

It's a bummer for sure, lotta stuff stuck in a limbo for now.

Maybe it'll get fixed, maybe not. While it does make gearing alts much harder, we still gotta keep in mind that alt gearing is still a whole lot easier than it's ever been, discounting the short period where we had the warbank.

We still have a lot of content available, maybe this lessened convenience can be an opportunity to try out other aspects of the game, perhaps even, just maybe, give a shot at roleplaying ^^

Don't worry we've made it work before, we'll still do after.

 

[setsunahq]

Oh boy now I realise my stack of mark of honor is inside the warbank

 

[nocture]

sure they will give us free gametime to work on this change

 

[wily.virus]

Hopefully this is a temporary measure. I believe to stop botting and level boosting. Possibly lvl 11 twinks recently opened Blizzard's eyes to this

There are paying customers unhappy about this change, because they use free trial accounts for extended bank storage. This gives me hope this would be resolved once Blizz figures out how to lock down gold transfers from bots and level boosters.

 

[lofi]

In my opinion, blizz ought to allow folks to WITHDRAW items and gold they put into the warbank on a Veteran or Starter account. If you dumped a lot of items into warbank, open a GM ticket and let blizzard know how much time you spent and why it's important that you can get them back. Blocking access to DEPOSIT items in warbank on non-subbed accounts should be enough to prevent abuse by botters and gold farmers.

 

[SPQR]

Well maybe it was me funneling 80k garrison cards to the tune of 500k+ gold to store it in warbank like a dragon without paying them a dime.
Maybe some of them came across this and retaliated

A mystery to the universe unknown.

Good enough i never unlocked 2.5mil tab. Then again never was a plan to do.
Worst part of this there are literally no safe spots left to reliably store decent about of items now.
Considering how guild banks got wiped some time back and now this.
Was surprised they raised gold cap past 10g. Was surprised they allowed acc wide bank at all.
Never moved 95% of pre existed enchanting & consumables across characters so a shame on this fake hoodini masters but:

Blizzard earned 25+ MILLION dollars from the new Brutosaur mount

Seen bellular stream or what ever it was where they pulled api on amount of accounts that got it unlocked and it was around 1 million of accounts world wide.
How many actually people that is who knows. 300k gold makers average 3 bnet accs per person seems about right.
Was a month ago or so. Bet it is over 100 million in total at this point for sure.

In any case this change is not about money.
More like this

if it was about bots abusing it - a simple change to ToS that would mention a nuke to entire bnet acc wow licenses if abuses happens would make them much more money than this move.

nobody is actually hurt by this, it's a change in a video game.

Mentally people got hurt. But that does not count i guess. Unless you part of specific group.

 

[drake178]

Oh boy now I realise my stack of mark of honor is inside the warbank

I've been spending them from in there last week, so don't panic just yet. I'm subbed so I can't test it for you, but you should give it a try.

but then they nerfed Longstrider across the board so hard it was worse than before the change and it's completely not worth it now.

Actually, they botched that fix to the point where the dungeon pieces are now better than they were @ilvl 194. That 8% cap in the tooltip? It's not there in practice. I'm getting 13-14%s with enough secondary stats, although I did need to focus more on some of them. Having missed that short window when LS was overpowered, for me, this ultimately came out as a net gain on most of my chars, with a minor (~5%) loss on others.

 

[aislingyngaio]

The point was to explain that if you know what to expect, you won't be surprised that much. Can someone use this to game the system without paying? - Yes! Ok, so at some point, it will be gamed enough to force a change. The same pattern emerges with F2P accounts for the last 12(13?) years. Thinking realistically about the situation will help prevent further problems.

So explain why the guild bank bug still hasn't been comped when the people affected are paying players? Like, if ppl think realistically about the situation wouldn't the realistic solution be to rollback gbanks to before the bug landed instead of, oh idk, ignoring the problem through launch and RWF because fuk yous got mine??

 

[flux1]

"Why are you complaining Blizzard hit you again? You should have known it was coming. Probably did something to deserve it anyways."

 

[Chops]

"Why are you complaining Blizzard hit you again? You should have known it was coming. Probably did something to deserve it anyways."

yes, a gamer without patch notes is indeed a victim of domestic violence.

 

[Masara]

Well, all I was doing recently was getting gold to buy my Warband bank. And it was done.

And now it's gone? Fan...tastic.