Considering the original post warning people about the cloning service changing from a permanent store feature to something that would be phased out had incredibly low click through rate… yes. Some reiteration would be greatly appreciated.
The avenues they chose to alert people such as, innocuous discount emails, forum posts where less than 10,000 people viewed, and a decision not to collaborate with streamers in an effort to spread the word… I don’t believe anyone had fair warning.
Many agree it is extremely likely that all clones still exist given the nature of how character data is stored, the individual sum of even extremely progressed characters only adding up to a handful of kilobits. There are simple solutions for reacquainting the clones back into Azeroth today that have been explored in these forums that won’t cause upheaval to Classic Era’s eco-system.
May 22, 2022, is when we were given 30 days’ notice that they would cycle it out. Until then, we all had the fair impression it would always be available.
No doubt this was at a time when people were looking the other way as well.
If, they choose to leave this matter unaddressed, this is nothing short of roguery.
If that truly is the final nail in the coffin, they buried live ones.
And making change without a platform is hard so,
If blizzard has buried one of your loved ones, please, grab shovel and help dig.
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