06-21-2012, 05:55 AM
Those accounts were also probably used to spam general chat and spam friend requests advertising gold and item selling and power leveling services. I assume that the starter edition does not have access to general chat or the ability to friend people. So, Blizzard is trying to greatly increase the cost of doing business for spammers by making them actually have to buy an account to do it. It's a shame that legitimate customers are caught in the cross-fire, but I understand what Blizzard is trying to do.