Please give us the option to clone our old toons that were moved onto the other expansions. I would love to revisit Nax with my guildmates again. Feed off our nostalgia and make some more money Blizz! 
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I quit Classic during the holidays 2019; been AWOL at life until now so all this business about cloning/different versions of classic is brand new to me. I do miss my old rogue who is sitting in wotlk at level 60 kitted out in MC-era gear. Iâm having fun leveling a new toon from scratch but Iâd pay a bit to have my rogue back where they belong in OG classic.
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I see you stalking these threads too, and it appears you have some sort of personal vendetta against allowing us to clone again. We donât care if they said âpermanently deletedâ, for all we know they just meant from production not from all the backups they have too. Your arguments is as loose as ours is.
When it comes down to it we all just want a place for our characters to call home and not end up dying in cata or merging with retail. The most fun I had was in classic but as you can see from these forums, the majority of people thought classic era would remain a ghost town, and our friends continued on to TBC, so why would we pay to sit on a server and do nothing for 2 years.
Yes there is some FOMO going on but can you blame us? Thatâs a lot of time, some of us have been playing since classic launch and only just realized after wrath that the expansions are going to ruin our game and we need a forever home for our characters.
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Let me be a bit logical for you, there is a lot of interest in Era now so Blizzard would bring it back if they could to make lots of money, and because itâs not back then that means they donât have the data, since everything else would still be in place so they could just turn it back on if you were right.
Levelling is a big part of Classic Era so your only recourse is to start levelling again as cloning is not coming back. Anyone saying cloning will come back is just deluding themselves and worse than that, deluding and giving false hope to others.
It was so damned cheap near the end you could have easily afforded it.
Just so you know, I am not saying I donât want it back, just that itâs not coming back.
you mean watch all the boosters boost and the gdkps take over so you have people who dont know how to play there character with the gear they bought and quit anyway after no one brings them to raid bc they suck and didnt take time to learn to play it? people are no leveling anymore they are boosting which is terrible for the game
I quit after Naxx and before TBC launched. Iâm back for some hardcore and classic era, but my characters are deleted from classic era now. This is very disappointing. I would like some service to restore the characters that I spent a significant amount of time leveling and raiding with.
Edit: I just found my characters in Wrath Classic. This is crazy. I never even played TBC Classic or Wrath Classic. I only played Classic, and now my characters are trapped in Wrath Classic? Blizzard should provide a service to undo this.
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not blizzards fault you quit for over a year.
No, but it is blizzardâs fault for not accounting for the fact that people would quit for over a year and then want to clone their characters. A smart company plans for these things.
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When WoTLK ends and we are all forced out of it and forced to play Cata against our will, then paid for cloning will be back.
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There is nothing logical about this, post-hc/pre-cata would be the most optimal time to collect everyone together for a new cloning session, not late wrath before hc announcement.
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Iâm not saying cloning wonât happen again, it just wonât be Classic Vanilla Era cloning, it will be Classic Wrath Era cloning.
Let me be more logical for you. Blizzard would not release clones to compete with HC thats releasing literally right now. While also spliting the minimal dev power they have left. They may very well be delaying the clone service.
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Warriors of Azeroth, advocates of the timeless realms that have etched their mark upon our hearts, we stand before Blizzard with a plea, that reverberates through the corridors of nostalgia. We, the players who have woven our identities into the very fabric of Azeroth, are here to raise our voices, that the time has come for the resurrection of the Vanilla Classic Era Clones, for the resurgence of an essence that binds us all.
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In the annals of time, we faced a crossroads, a pivotal juncture when The Burning Crusade called us forth. We stood on the precipice, and many among us, lured by the unknown, embarked on a new odyssey. Let us not be ridiculed for our choices, for it was a moment of transition, of anticipation. Yet, from the crucible of change emerges a realization: the past holds our souls captive, beckoning us to return.
Now, as the tides of fate swirl anew, the opportunity emerges to rewrite our tale, to rekindle the bonds we forged in Vanillaâs embrace. The yearning to return to Classic courses through our veins, a magnetic force that defies temporal boundaries. For those who did not seize the chance to clone, they stand united in their longing to retrace their steps, to rekindle friendships and reforge alliances.
I beseech you, Blizzard, to heed this fervent plea. Envision the countless adventurers, the guilds once disbanded, the camaraderie lost in the mists of time, all yearning for restoration. Imagine the surge of life that shall cascade through these hallowed lands as characters are summoned back from the annals of history.
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Theyve alrwady said it time and time again.NO. MOVE ON.
Their message, stark and resolute, is but a whisper in the tempest of our determination. The tapestry of our history is not woven by the skeptics, nor by the gatekeepers of nostalgiaâs gate. It is woven by us, the adventurers who have etched their stories into the chronicles of Azeroth. We do not ask for the impossible; we ask for recognition of the profound connection we hold with the virtual realms we call home.
Looks like some folks had the ability to clone characters back with a restore function. The data, or at least some portions of it, are not âpermanently deletedâ.
Source: Reddit post with screenshots
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This is what iâm talking about!! They are deleted (as in flagged as deleted) but they still exist in the database, companies dont simply delete their data like that.
I just watched the video and itâs upsetting⌠but each individual character would have been in the kb range, wouldnât have reached 1mb. This is my job, I work with databases all the time. Including your (limited) quest log, skill tree, exploration, flight paths, a counter for your level, a id link to all the items in your (limited) inventory, it would be a few kb. he said billions of accounts, then quickly dropped to 100 million. 100 million kb is 100gb. The entirety of the character data could fit on a 1tb-2tb harddrive. I donât like the answer they gave in this interview, this doesnât sound like a development team to me, this is the PR team.
Characters alone- this is not a lot of data, a 1tb harddrive costs $75, about as much as 2 character clones.
That it not true as they said âpermanently deletedâ and that is not what that means. If they said just deleted I would agree with you.
There is a reason for that, the players deleted them for themselves then restored them later. Notice the, âYou must wait 6 daysâ, etc.
I have characters with the same names On Wrath and Era.
You have said that many times and showed absolutely no proof of it with Blizzard.
Once you include items, bags slots, BoE/soulbound/equipped flags, quests completed and lots of other things it will be far more that kilobytes.
No it would not, the item slots are just pointers to primary keys, itâs nothing really. Yes I know this because nobody in their right mind would do it differently.