Trial accounts in RP

[Obahar-argent-dawn]

Yeah but the blue shirt comparison isn’t the same thing at all.
The reason people use trial accounts for ERP is because they can’t be traced back to their main accounts, they can be set up for free so there’s no monetary investment and if they do get banned (which never seems to be the case) then there’s nothing to stop them from just immediately making another trial accoutn and doing the exact same thing.

The reason why restricting trials would work in lessening the amount of Goldshire noncense is because then people would have to pay for a subscription in order to do their ERP, and thus make it inherently more risky to do that stuff if they were to get banned… which again, is unlikely to happen unfortunately, but that’s the general idea. Ban players doing this stuff, if they want to be repeat offenders then they have to pay more money to Blizz just to have a chance of doing the same thing.

Also this is assuming that Blizzard can’t just blacklist a paypal account or credit card number, or use that information to ban repeat offenders. I’m not sure if that can be done but it’d be a quick way to identify people making new accounts.

[Lorruss-argent-dawn (Lorruss)]

@Obahar-argent-dawn

The reason people use trial accounts for ERP is because they can’t be traced back to their main accounts, they can be set up for free so there’s no monetary investment and if they do get banned

This is true.
I still don’t think restricting trial accounts even more - to the point of it almost being non interactive with other players is the way to go.

The blue shirt example, is only a mean to point out that it’s not always so easy to restrict things without taking away from other aspects - or people that might have nothing to do with it at all.

You will still need a collective effort, along with Blizzard to deal with this.

If an account has been repeatedly reported for such behaviors, banning the linked PayPal - might be quite a good option indeed.
Because then you hammer down on the individual and not the people who just want to try something new.

I shall repeat myself in saying that to have Inappropriate behavior including minors " or " Inappropriate Se-… behavior " to single these cases out would be top notch. Is it the whole solution, absolutely not but it would help.