#0 - Feb. 6, 2010, 8:07 p.m.
I have had this account open since very near the release, i ended subscription when my main character, a shaman, was in his mid 50s, due to computational constraints that made the game very slow.
I reopened the account after resolving said problems about 6 months before Wrath of the Lich King was released. I leveled to 70, and experienced some raid content at that level. When Wrath came out i purchased it within the first week, and leveled to 80 in the first month, i was active in end-game content, but i have time constraints now, and being unable to maintain and improve my character because of those constraints means i am ready to retire my current 80s, shaman and death knight, for what i find more fun, the leveling/raiding with/pvp of level 60 "twinks." To be honest, it's all that keeps me from ending my subscription at this point.
I leveled to near 60 on several characters, and, wishing to cap them so i could be involved in all level 60 content (pvp included, as well as a guild specific to my hobby, which most if not all require a capped account), i looked to the forums for answers, to others who had had similar experience. I talked to many of these people, and was assured that both an account downgrade (removal of the two expansions, rendering the expansions useless, and that content unavailable, but characters level 60 or under of the correct race playable and capped), and transfer of a character from a Wrath account to a Classic capped account was possible.
Here are a few of the posts that assured me it was possible, many say they have done it themselves in recent weeks and months, not years.
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=22049934321&sid=1 <---process
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=22418749603&postId=224166639081&sid=1#6
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=22749565571&sid=1&pageNo=2
I called Billing and sent the e-mail as the one post described had worked previously. When talking to the billing i was told they "Do not downgrade for those reasons" begging the question, for what reason do you downgrade, and why is it not available to me as a paying customer for years? If it was rendered as a payed service, i would take advantage of that in an instant.
I called billing a second time after receiving new information that a friend had downgraded by calling billing not even 24 hours before. The operator was much less terse, and more helpful, but after talking to a superior, denied my request to be downgraded once again, but it was clear the policy had been nonexistent before, or had recently changed in this respect. The Operator also mentioned a blue post to come on the matter of account downgrading, but in the week since i have seen nothing of the sort.
In game, i asked moderators if it was possible to downgrade an account, and whether a character could be transferred from a Wotlk account to a Classic account owned by the same person, and received a no, but this time i was told it was not even possible, regardless of reasons, which is clearly false from previous information i have received on the matter.
I have already purchased a faction change in order to get my account downgraded and still be able to play my paladin, so certain was the response from fellow players that it would be possible to downgrade my account. I would simply like to know, before i purchase a new original game, open a classic account and attempt to get a character transferred to it from my wotlk account, what the solid information is on this subject. Is it possible to do a transfer/downgrade, why am i getting mixed signals?
Thank You
