If the compesation had been for a buggy patch I could understand the upset but the compensation was for downtime of the whole game.
In case you are unaware. The NA realms didn’t come back up for the whole day due to issues with the patch. In contrast the EU maintenance ended early. The compensation s for losing a whole day of play. Not for bugs.
I don’t know who is spreading the rumours that this is for bugs. They are mistaken. This was the statement which explains it’s for the loss of playtime on their patch day:-
We wanted to take a moment to recognize that the first day of the pre-expansion content update for The War Within resulted in extended downtime for many players in North American realms. In recognition of this, we’re adding one day of extra game time to every subscription in North America, Latin America, Australia and New Zealand for accounts which were active as of July 23, 2024.
We anticipate providing this compensation to affected players on or before August 15, 2024. Players will be able to view their game time by visiting account.battle.net.
We appreciate your continued patience as we navigate through any lingering issues to ensure that player experience going forward into the launch of The War Within expansion goes smoothly starting with Early Access on August 22 and the global launch on August 26 at 3:00 p.m. PDT.
No, but we sure as hell can’t do much in the prepatch. If you’re a physical damage class in PvP, you’re useless for the next 4 weeks, thanks to the changes.
If you were farming old raids for tmog before the patch, you now no longer can solo the stuff you could previously, because they tripled the HP for SL raid bosses.
Also the warbank is STILL!!! disabled. Also the amount of bugs, and order hall issues I’ve encountered is hilarious.