The Beginning

A friend of mine at work had this idea to create world of warcraft trial accounts so we can get a character to level 20 and go crazy. I already had a trial account linked to me main account so I signed in a created a Tauren hunter named Homogenizer.

The first thing I noticed is the help menu and pop up tips were radically different. The starting quests had also changed to be linier. After finishing the starting quest hub I was flown over to the next one. This is when I learned a few disappointing things bout trial accounts.

The following restrictions are placed on all Starter Edition Accounts:

- A level cap of 20.
- A maximum of 10 gold.
- Trade skills are capped at 100 ranks.
- Unable to trade via the Auction House, mailbox, or player-to-player.
- In-game access to public chat channels unavailable. Players are limited to communicating using only say, party, or whisper.
- Characters will be unable to create or join guilds.
- Characters are not able to send whispers to other characters unless they have been added to the characters' friends' lists or have received a whisper from a character first.
- Characters will not be able to invite other players into a party.
- Characters will be unable to disable experience gains.
- Voice chat disabled on Starter Edition accounts.
- Realms experiencing login queues will prioritize players who have full, paid accounts.
- Starter Edition accounts are not eligible for character transfers
- RealID features are disabled on all Starter Edition Accounts.

Now I want to explore all the possibilities of trial accounts and what they can do.