World of Warcraft : Free Veteran Edition Coming with Patch 6.1

Blizzard announced that World of Warcraft will have free Veteran Edition soon with the release of Patch 6.1. For players who have already had a subscription to log on, this version of game will have restrictions of chat and play even after their subscription has lapsed. This version of the game will have all of the restrictions the Starter Edition has, but let you check in with the game (and your friends) without paying for subscription time. Before read the original post from official forums, you need to know that this site offers you a convenient way to buy WoW gold at reasonable price.

Here is the original post from Community Manager Bashiok below:
We’ve always had this kind of weird limitation where if you’ve never played WoW we let you play as much as you want, albeit in a very restricted Starter Edition account. However, if you have ever had a subscription--but don’t currently have one--we don’t even let you log in. In 6.1 we’ll effectively revert lapsed accounts into a Starter Edition “mode”, with all of the same restrictions. The one difference being that your sub-level 20 characters will be able to join a guild if any of your other characters are still in that guild.
The label for this mode internally is “Veteran”, and those are the strings that were datamined, but it’s unlikely to be a term we use to any great degree externally. It will simply be the default state for accounts that don’t currently have an active subscription.
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