Shame on you blizzard, for removing posts that are relevant and being asked for by many of your players.
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They are removing duplicate threads because a mega thread on the subject already exists. Read the forum CoC for more information.
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You lost your old characters. YOu have to relevel now. Tough luck.
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You must be new here.
Iâm happy to not have to see them, tbh.
Thank you, Blizzard!
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because you donât want them to return the cloning service or because you genuinely donât want cluttered forums or something?
i donât want cluttered forums.
i am convinced if they returned cloning, players would realize by Day 2 that it doesnât really make them any happier. so they can return them if they have the data, it doesnât affect me.
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Good about time.
Understood.
I had a friend who I raided classic with hit me up asking if I wanted to log onto classic era with them. Unfortunately, at that time we both found out together that the cloning service had ended⌠6th months ago. We both agreed that we did not want to level new characters and gear up again and we went our separate ways once more.
If I get my character back I know that I would get more than 2 days from it, thereâs a lot of people I havenât seen since classic era and it would be nice to play classic with them once again.
Then create a level 1 and play with them. You ignored Classic Era for years and are just feeling FOMO. You either want to play Classic Era or you donât.
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Sometimes it takes decades for people to realize that era is the best version of wow.
We will be here playing mains and fresh alts if you ever choose to return 
However, opening up clones would potentially throw the entire economy into a tailspin, give a bunch of toons / gold to sellers, and would let people who only want to play âtheir bis toonâ return. Era became stable after they closed the clones and there is no need to ever open them again.
Good on blizz for closing duplicate, spam, threads.
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The economy is already in a tailspin, IMHO. Also, I really do feel that Blizzard should see how big of a want this is. Instead of making excuses, lets see some action from Blizzard. We know these archives are not gone. Anyone believing that bogus excuse, might have the wool pulled over their eyes.
It would be much much worse if clones were opened again.
Clones were closed before the popularity of era grew, which means gold sellers (who play the game in a rational economic way, did not clone the majority of their toons).
The economy is becoming even more wild as more and more tbc/wotlk non-cloners return and buy gold to gear their new toons.
Now if we open clones in this environment we get a massive surge of:
- Clones with gold cap / banks full of consumes.
- Many thousands of level cap toons to be turned into bots.
- Fully geared toons for people who didnât clones (I wish we could only clone these somehow because they are okay).
So we basically end up wrecking the current economy, much more than what is seen in todayâs inflation, giving a huge payday to gold sellers, all so people who abandoned era when it needed them can have their precious t3 toons back. Not worth it.
I get your points. But, the issue is, if Blizzard was smart and just put a gold cap on what you can clone, this solves this 100%.
Only allow the clones to bring like 10,000g at most
I know if I were to clone my old characters, I wouldnât be doing it for money, but rather the incredible amount of time I put into some of my characters.
The way they handled clones was poor⌠proper notice to people who werenât actively playing WoW (subbed or otherwise) wasnât given and thatâs on them. They really need to take ownership over that.
However, all we really have at this point is their supposed statement (apparently in a stream, I think) that the data was gone and deleted. I donât really know that we have a choice, we have to accept that as truth. So your options are to re-level or not play.
For whatever itâs worth, lots of people are leveling right now. Iâve had no trouble finding dungeons up to Scarlet Monastery so far. I think you will feel the loss of any end-game geared characters though. Thereâs a bit of a pay wall as I think end-game is somewhat dominated by GDKP. Other options exist, but theyâll be hard to find. If you truly like Classic and donât want to pay to win, youâll find them, I just didnât want to sugar coat it for you.
I agree that it sucks your character is stuck in the progression servers.
However they gave a lot of time for people to clone, and not doing so had a negative impact on all the people who did go to era. We had a mostly dead world for a long time while everyone ran head-first into the tbc trashcan.
However, while not perfect, era is decently healthy right now - and that boom really started after clones closed. Removing the uncertainty that clones create was a huge benefit to the economy.
Re-opening clones now would be a huge risk to all players on era and only benefit gold farmers / people who didnât value era when it needed people most.
Likely because theyâre clogging up the forumsâŚ
in the time that the clone complaints have been going on I have leveled 2 characters to 60, raid geared 1, and ranked both to R11.
I am by no means the best player ever, Iâm not the fastest or bestest at anything, Iâm merely average and what Iâm saying is maybes its time to stop crying about the clones being no more and make a new character.
I would clone a few of my old now on wrath characters if I could, but these posts have become ridiculous and Good on blizzard for taking out the endless tide of spam posts by likely the same 6 or 7 people.
They gave three months, which under normal circumstances would actually be ok. However, they neglected to inform people who werenât actually playing WoW at the time. The communication was poor and people understandably missed the memo.
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What would âreturning the clone serviceâ even mean? Your character profiles are deleted. They have stated as such. They deleted all of it. Its gone. Over. Your characters are in WOTLK now. Even if you didnt touch them it doesnt matter.