Silver AT characters being locked as Gold?

wrathsoul1

I've been meaning to ask, is it intended that I'm unable to access my AT characters that I've made as a Silver member when I'm a Gold player? I know about the Convert option, but I wonder why my Silver AT heroes got locked out in the first place.

pantagruel01

It's always worked that way. I'm not entirely sure why.

kallethen

Yeah, back when I first got a sub, my silvers were locked out until I converted them. It's always been that way. My guess for the reason is because the gold sub grants certain benefits and it was easiest to apply those benefits through converting each character to gold status.​​