WoW free?

Not able to past level 20 I guess is the worst.

Lv20 cap is by far the worst restriction.
The starter edition is designed to give you a taste of what the game has to offer (which frankly, is a literal fuckton).
A lot of those functions depend on how social you are in games. If you are pretty social, the restrictions are crippling.

That's basically how drug dealers work. They give you your first hit, and when you get addicted they start milking you, now you have to buy your drug every now and then (monthly subscription). And sometimes they offer you newer, better, stronger drug (expansions).
But WoW is still fun :)

The "free" edition is more like a very restricted demo version with the majority of the content locked. But it sounds better to say the game is free just needs paid unlocks.

This 'starter edition' isn't new. I played it like 5 years ago.

Any character above level 20 requires a monthly subscription or you can't play them. To add to what others have been saying.

Basically, if you want to do anything other than mess around on a level 20 (which can be a bit boring, honestly), you need to subscribe or buy a WoW Token for game time. Those can be expensive and you'd need to be a really high level grinding to get enough.

You can probably get level 20 in a couple days (or less) if you know what you're doing so I concur with the others, was tempted to say no trade as well, but as someone else pointed out, there's really no decent market for lower level toons

Eventhough i quit the game myself i still think its the best it has to offer in terms of mmo and its service /gamemodes/ pvp in MY OPINION<<< [remember just an opinion guys ;p] i played tera wildstar eso neverwinter [some in beta] althoug i do hear good things about guildwars

its been on sale several times but its 15 euros again it seems, but still 50 characters being able to play pve /rp/pvp and all kinds of other servers up to level 60 where u can get your own several mounts trough differnt classes and not having to pay for every new char slot or bagspace with rl money is quite a nice feature i think the basic free level 20 account limits a really big deal on what u can actually do so if u do want to try it out why not try it out for 1 month [try to get it on a sale and see if u like it

Don't forget, once you buy the full game and are able to lvl up, trade and sell in the market you can pay for the monthly subscription with in-game currency, so if you don't mind farming dailies you're playing it for free :)