Im honestly pissed beyond words could ever justify. My husband and I have been wanting to get back into wow, as both of us havent played for a long long time. We decided to pick up Classic and give it a go, just to figure out… Our accounts are region locked and we cant play together!! Im from the EU and obviously have a EU account, while my husband is from the US. So now, sure i can buy the Classic game, but i still have to pay subs. I already payed a sub for my main account, which is pretty much useless now, which just makes me even more pissed. We wont ever be able to play legacy together either, as both of us got important collector items on our legacy accounts. Why in 2023 is region lock still a thing? Blizzard is so happy to grab money, so why arent there an option to pay to have your account transferred to a different region, like everything else? So now, both of us potential costumers coming back “home” as you guys kept repeating doing Blizzcon, cant even play together. Im furious to say the least. I can not see any logical reasoning behind this. “Hurdur our servers are in different regions”, so? Many other games dont have this issue or region lock? Oh ill have lag playing on the US servers? So? Thats my issue, not everyone elses. Like why, just why…
Such as ???
I play Diablo II and Diablo III. In both games, I can create heroes on several regions but there is no way for my America heroes to play with the Europe heroes of my friends. Each region is a separate “universe”. If I want to play with my friends on Europe, I need to create some new heroes on Europe and level them up.
It’s a bit more complicated on WoW because of the subscription requirement… but the idea would be the same. You or your husband need to create an account on the other region, create some heroes there and then you can play together… I don’t know how subs work… you may have to have a sub in each region.
Most games are like that, I suspect.
I fail to see how this comment has any relevance to the post. I am not talking about other Blizzard games, but other MMORPGs where you can easily just switch server to a US server instead of a EU, and you dont need to rebuy the games, you can just make another character on the server. I think you are misunderstanding the post here.
The frustration isnt “omg i have to level a new character”, the frustration is, now i need to buy 2 accounts instead of just using my main account, now i need to have 2 subs if i want to play with my husband, but also keep all of my shinies on my main account. Its stupid. I just payed for a sub i cant use, because what i needed the sub for, i cant do. So now i have to pay for ANOTHER sub, so i can play classic with him. Yes i dont have to buy any games, only the sub to play classic, but lets say we want to play legacy one day, well, because either of us cant use our main account to play together. All of our collections, hard work and hours of dedication, one of us cant bring that and enjoy it. All of the mounts, pets, transmogs, only 1 can have it. Its beyond stupidity.
Then you need to post on the WoW forums… not here.
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