After the World of Warcraft Forever beta ended last week, Blizzard opened up the servers to character creation in order to allow players who bought one of the Skyborne packs to reserve their names. But a lot of people were falsely given a "restricted" message when they tried to reserve their name.
Some People Who Paid for WoW Forever Name Reservation Couldn't Reserve Their Name Due to a Weird Bug
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