Hello, if I buy BfA Complete Edition which comes with 30 days of game time but has the following warning: “New account required. Includes 30 days of game time.”, does that apply to all licenses under the Battlenet account, eg WoW1-WoW8? Or does it only apply to the BfA account?
I’m asking because I had an old WoW inactive account which I bought back in the day, but after buying BfA I was both able to play on the newly created BfA account(WoW2), and on the other account(WoW1). It was just missing the expansion but game time was there.
I’m thinking about buying BfA again, but I wanna make sure if it works and the previous one didn’t work just because my other account was inactive in the first place.
Sorry for the long question for such simple thing, I wanted to be clear.
It only applies to one WoW game license. Every additional WoW game license you want to have active requires its seperate purchase of optional BfA expansions and gametime.
If you’ve already upgraded a WoW game license with BfA, that same license cannot be upgraded again with BfA. You’ll have to attach it to another one. As you’ve figured out, a Battle.net account can have up to 8 WoW game licenses at once and thus, 8 BfA expansion purchases can be made.
The BfA+Gametime deal can only be applied to non-BfA WoW game licenses which also had never any gametime applied before. Since you’ve said WoW1 did had gametime in the past, that one is ineligible for that bundled offer.
Did you play on a toon +20 on the other wow license?
Since you say that you could play both accounts after buying Bfa.
Cause they created a new sort of account, the “veteran account”.
This basically means that every wow license that ever had game time
can be played for free with characters up to level 20 (just like starter account)
You cannot progress beyond lvl 20 or join a guild**.
Only when you re-sub the account or provide game time you can remove these restrictions.
**The veteren account can join a guild IF your alt was already in the guild when game time was active and still is within the guild. This is so you can still be social with your guildies if you don’t have game time.
Also, IF you buy 1 BfA collector and apply it to a wow license, every license you upgrade to bfa normal will automatically flag as collector (since rewards are shared account wide). So don’t go buying 2 collector’s for no reason.
I am even more confused now, because I was able to log in to other WoW license and play the game, it had 2 characters. One of them was a DK, not a class trial or anything. And obviously way higher than level 20.
I guess if you guys say it doesn’t apply, then it doesn’t apply.
Hello everyone!
This can be a little confusing, I know, but it was explained well by Saneko, thank you 
When you go to the list of your games https://account.blizzard.com/games you can see WoW games. And it should say either STARTER or
Basically it comes down to this :
When it shows :
- Starter Edition WoW license.
It means it had:
no game time ever
no Battlechest
no BfA
== > CAN have Complete Collection
When it shows:
- WoW: BfA
- WoW: Legion
(status “Inactive” - has no game time, “Active” - has game time)
It means :
it was upgraded in the past with CD key/digital upgrade
It was upgraded with game time
==> CAN’T have Complete Collection
I hope this sheds some light on it
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