Warband Bank access revoked for F2Ps & Vets
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CroyeTchor
Member
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.
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.
wily.virus
Member
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.
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
Legend
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
Legend
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:
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.
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:
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.
Mentally people got hurt. But that does not count i guess. Unless you part of specific group.
drake178
New Member
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.
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
Legend
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??
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Chops
Soccer Dad
yes, a gamer without patch notes is indeed a victim of domestic violence.
DaWandaBoi
Grandfathered
Hmm, might be due to the new warband screens on PTR is there a way to test this on PTR and see if it works there
rogomet
Veteran
Dude, I've always liked to chat with players, argue, joke within the bounds of decency. But the other day I got my account banned for 21 days because someone complained about me en masse. I filed an appeal and when the GM replied to me, he cited my message where I made fun of a player's name, quote: “*player name* haha, what a nickname!”. I was denied the appilation.
And you know, I decided that I will no longer post in chat where there are strangers.
edgeofhearing
Member
The Thursday roll-out (rather than on patch day) and the fact that we can still see the bank (and even move things around inside of it) still suggests to me that this was an emergency hotfix to block some exploit, rather than a planned thing.
cletus
Member
Hope springs eternal.
You could be right but this feels intentional or, even if it isn't intentional, the unintended side effect will be viewed as desirable.
As others have said, there were bugs with F2P Warbank access early (withdrawing beyond gold cap) so they can't argue they didn't know about F2P access. If it stays this way, it should've been this way from the start. Now people have played based on how it works.
It sure would be nice if Blizzard addressed this one way or the other.
Calligraphy
Veteran
As much as I'd like to believe this, any exploit where they'd likely revert this soon would also be an exploit paid accounts could take advantage of and thus a reason to block warbanks for everybody. I have a couple of hunches (either involving gold sellers or attempting to stem the deluge of 11 fury warriors), but neither implies any drive to give back access at any point in the foreseeable future.
Chops
Soccer Dad
I'm unsure why or how they would expect this to be a response to 11 warriors. That's going around the world to get across the street and would still be wildly ineffective.
Every ticket response I've seen indicates that support is aware of this and considers it a bug, not an intended change.
Every ticket response I've seen indicates that support is aware of this and considers it a bug, not an intended change.
whysofurious
New Member
It's looking like it might be a bug. I'm not sure it would be a response to 11 warrior twinks. I mean that's a pretty niche group. It's not like everybody is doing that and boosting has been around long before those twinks came.