End of RAF checklist & when exactly does it end ?

[Moorea]

Hi

My RAF / linked accounts are coming to an end soon.

My account page says 1 of them is linked until 11-04-08

Do you guys know if that means until end of day / midnight 11/4 - server time - or some other time (PST or like anniversary of my signup - I don't remember at what time I did that) ?

I'm madly rushing to try to get a team on a server I don't have any high levels to 55 if at all possible so I can MB DKs there comes the extension and I'm afraid I would get caught in the middle with no more bonus and also loose gift levels (as it seems from the FAQ that gifting ends when linking ends)

I started preventively gifting most levels already but I don't want to do that every time I ding

Anyone has had their RAF end already ? (I think I signed up almost as soon as it was announced 90 days ago but maybe someone beat me to it and can tell what happens after ; wrt to gifting; end of bonus; etc... do we get server message "Your linking ends in 6 hours... 3 hours... etc..." [dreaming I know] I checked it's not showing in the new wow calendar either)

[Vyndree]

I'm running into a problem right now. it's 9pm server 11/3/08 -- my raf account expires 11/4 according to the site. 8 pm on 11/3 is NOT 11/4 no matter how you twist it. I planned around my advertised date and have nearly 60 levels to gift that are in limbo right now. P-I-S-S-E-D.

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...65094748&sid=1

Does it look like 11/4 to you right now? I can't summon, gift levels, or get the xp bonuses right now. I'm pissed and on the phone w/blizz billing.

Check my SS in that post. There is no warning that they are cutting my raf earlier than advertised.

[Moorea]

you got me worried - but I logged in and my raf is still working for now... what did blizz say on the phone ?

they should at least let you use levels to gift for 1 week or so after the end

[Schwarz]

wow so the time it ends is Greenwich Mean Time. WTF is that seriously if anything it should be in pacific time sense that is what they do all there server updates on. I hope they let grant your levels and what not. I guess this is important to know sorry for your loss.

[Vyndree]

My email to Don (phone support personnel) to his supervisor, Mac:

Good evening Mac,

My name is Jennifer and I just got off of a support call with Don. I have no problems with Don, who was very helpful during our call, but I'd like to voice my unhappiness with the Recruit-a-Friend website and its effect on my gameplay.

EDIT: <snip!>

[Schwarz]

Stupid Blizzard.. that is truely stupid. Some idiot programmer forgot to change a variable around now they are scrambaling to make up reasons why GMT was picked. It would be sooooooo sweet if RAF wasn't available in the UK that is the only way that this could make any less sense.

I hope they resolve this with some sort of credit. I posted the thing about is WOTLK coming out on the 12th in us (ie 13th GMT).

[Moorea]

Well GMT BS or not; it says linked until 11/4 - shouldn't that mean that 11/4 it's still linked and ends at the end of 11/4; not at the begining ?

It's also not GMT because for me it stopped working about 1/2h ago - ie 10pm PST or 6am GMT

[Moorea]

I got the time for my other account from the GM - now we just need blizz to fix it and give us a few hours/days extra

please chime in in
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...033538&sid=1#0

as apparently they don't want it in the customer support forum

[Simulacra]

I'm fast approaching the same issue, I just don't know when my raf ends for sure. I'm in Australia and we're GMT +11 - and my raf is due to expire on 6th Nov, I RAF'd on 6th August at 6:45pm AEST so in theory it should end 6:45pm AEST Thursday 6th November, but will it? or will it end at 7:45am on the 6th Nov or will it be earlier still like the 5th Nov........- >.< no idea. Anyway, my druids and hunters 4some are 18 (after around 4 hours played) now and I have 30 levels each to gift to 2 of them, so it looks like an all nighter on Wednesday O.o or at least as long as it takes to get to 29 from 18

Given that I have no idea when RAF will end and that I probably won't play these chars much I might just level them to 20 and gift them to 50 tomorrow night - 50 to 60 is usually a lot of fun anyway.

And another thing, this really cheeses me off: I RAF'd on the 6th but didn't actually open the accounts until the 8th.....bstards took 2 days from me

But when I balance it all out, RAF has given me my 4 x 70 Shammies which dinged on the weekend, they are a wonderful replacement for my mixed class team and I'm actually having fun in WoW again. Given that, it's hard for me to remain pissed off for too long.

edit: it's confusing - it's the 4th here, the 4th in the US and the 4th in the UK. When I hover over the "Linked Until" date it shows "2 days left" shouldn't that be 1 day? Until to me is not inclusive and would mean my last RAF day is the 5th, which means I'm not waiting till tomorrow night ;(

[Oswyn]

I think RAF time ends exactly 90 days from date/time of referral. It just sucks that they used GMT to communicate when this ends. They should've incdicated GMT to avoid this problem.