Eh well, right in November (21th I believe) Trump enhanced the sanctions. So yes, I do find it quite suspicious that it started around that time.
You can play WoW without being involved in real money transactions, unlike in MoP.
Look, it’s still 1+1=assumption you pull here. I’m not saying that it IS due to the sanctions, just saying that we can’t say that it ISN’T either. And since they are so weirdly silent I have a feeling that it’s not an issue they want to resolve for one reason or the other.
World of Warcraft for most Iranian players was never about “Involved in real money transactions”, wanna know why? because we actually have no direct bank connections to the world or for say credit card or any other card to be able to pay for it. most of times we have to use prepaid game cards which other people bought before.
I was reading another post similar to this post about the same problem, until someone just like you came along and started making everything about himself and changed the direction of thread into a political one and eventually the thread got closed due to “too heavy politic stuff going on”.
You people never understand what being an Iranian will ever be like, you were given so many freedom and simple basic rights and you can’t even fathom and understand what we’re going through. can’t even play freaking video games these days just cuz of where you are born, its like the color of your skin and race problems now it seems.
Calm down. I do wish for everyone affected that it gets resolved - simple. But suggesting someone to get educated in a topic which lives on assumptions is just lame.
Realistically, people have been having issues since November, closing in on 6 months. That’s not a regular connection / banwave issue. That’s all I can say and I will leave you and this topic alone.
Oh…and those “you people” comments really don’t work wel for a dozen of reasons. Just saying.
Maybe you need to do some research what the term snowflake is.
There is currently sanctions in place which block you from using an American service. It’s also against the rules to use a VPN on Blizzards servers. It’s in the tos. So either way you aren’t supposed to be playing, Making threads for Blizzard to fix your connection when you aren’t supposed to be playing isn’t going to happen.
Go complain to your government instead of taking it out on the wrong target.
So yes research done. I’m off to play. You can sit and rage and use wrong insults.
you’re just not informed well enough on the matter to make wild comments like this. for example there are at least 2 or 3 other major US based video game developers such as Valve and they still haven’t made any action. even back in 2012 when Blizzard made any access to their services with Iran IP impossible, Valve games were easily played without any restrictions. so the comments on sanctions are not used in every case, you know what i mean?
hey blizzard, please do say something regarding issue? so we’ll know what is going on from your point of view? not to mention that there are enough WinMTR logs provided by the players who are struck by this problem.
if its something that can be fixed then i don’t think losing a lot of players due to some technical issue is a good thing, considering the state of the game as a whole.
thank you.
Hello!
I am here as the representative of Iranian players to tell you the problems the players have so that you and your powerful team solve this problem. As we had problems like loading in bfa and also we had to activate VPN in order to play, then by ticketing you found out and solved it. Now from the beginning of Shadowlands we have the same problem again. Not just Iranian players but other players do have this problem and can’t play online without activating VPN.
As you have said, using VPN is prohibited and using it will cause problems like account blocking. Here, I as the representative of all Iranian players request that you consider our problem related to connecting to the game.
The only way we Iranians can play the game is using VPN, and so players will be banned for it.
Please solve this problem for us, because now with covid-19 pandemic around, this game really entertains us.
I hope that you solve it for all the players. I really appreciate your support and perseverance.
Blizzard , I beg you , the only happiness left in we iranians is these video games … which it’s getting taken from us already … Please , i beg you do somthing about it.
We iranians love warcraft , not only becuase its awsome , but it’s very similar to our own Legends , like Zahak who is similar to arthas , Kaveh (Uther) and etc.
Please make it happen <3
I have the same problem since expansion lunch and I have to use VPN in order to play WoW, which causes high latency. Please consider this despite of any political issues we have in Iran.
Thank you for your understanding
I don’t think anyone deserves to get disadvantages in game simply because has to turn on VPN to play the game he pays subscription fee for it, getting high latency (I’m not even talking about 400ms latency, I’m talking about my latency which is around 1~5Kms! 5000ms latency!) that forces you out of raiding and doing M+ or Arenas with your guild is saddening for me and many other players like me, we are benched to do all of the endgame activities simply because we can’t connect to the game servers as a normal regular player does. I know some of my friends from Pakistan, Iraq, Kuwait and UAE which have the same IP range as Iran have this issue too. Please take consider solving this problem as an urgent because it has affected most players in middle east region.
(maybe give us a realm which is located in one of the middle east countries? as of Saudi Arabia just invested billions of dollars into Activision-Blizzard I guess we deserve to have a realm dedicated in one of the Persian Gulf countries?)
Hello lovely bllizzard
As you know , all the iranians ppl have so many problems with their government.
unfortunately , they are not our choose and their decisions are not for iranians ppl.
World of Warcraft is one of the thing which makes us happy from 17 years ago till now.
We have to use VPN to connect to the game. and this way will make us Ban.
Please make a decision to solve this problem for us , we will appreciate.
Many Thanks
hi
we hace company play the world of warcraft we have world team and we leave in iran we cant use game without vpn and you ban us fot this reason now we have banned id in covid 19 and we have no hope for this game plz help us plz we are players
Hey Dear Blizzard
im CE player and i love this game, love to push keys and love to progress mythic raids for top 100 and im also playing in iranian guild that used to be always top 100 ish, but this patch all iranian’s players forced to use VPN for playing and its really bad cause of high latency and …
we love this game and we want to play more and more with low ping without any third-party application.
