I met a couple people on Diablo who quit after BWL and came back cus the hype to find their characters on Wrath. Not everybody is a loser that lives and breaths WoW. Plenty of people have no idea because most games you assume your characters aren’t deleted.
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sorry that this happened to you. Blizzard nowadays is very half-baked.
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Retired and permanently deleted means teo different thinks. Deleted and permanently deleted are also two different things.
They can copy whatever they want from whereever, change things, add things, remove things…ex SOM, HC. Based on that alone you are wrong.
All it takes is a certain number or statistic to push them to do it.
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Their characters would be still there in wrath. They were automatically ported to TBC and automatically ported to wrath.
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Yes, they do and in this case “permanently deleted” is what actually happened in both of your comparisons.
Blizzard have stated they cannot do that.
It’s like you trying to push a 20 tonne square rock alone with your bare hands.
No, they weren’t, all that happened was the same server was updated from Vanilla to TBC, then to wrath and the Era clones were deleted forever.
Not at all all my statements stand true where as you still have no clue what Blizzard can and cant do.
Hows that token working oitbin wotlk, its almost like money is the driving dactor behind their decisions. You can think otherwise, i also believed in Santa as a kid hah.
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I’m going by what they have said, not what they could do.
I can only agree with that and add one thing. With Blizzard being greedy don’t you think they would have brought it back by now if they could? Just so they could make a few more bucks.
I cannot remember ever thinking that. Then again my childhood was quite some time ago.
I mean it took them years to bring back classic, years to inplement a token. Big ships move slow, but am glad you agree that Blizzard can do it, you just dont want them to for your own insecurities or whatever it is.
Sometimes one thing is said, and with enough $way another thing is done.
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Yes, but they had a lot of the data for that, it was on every Vanilla disk from 2004 to 2007, but they don’t have the data anymore to bring back cloning. It’s not a matter of if you shout loud or often enough it will come back, the data is gone.
Actually you are wrong about that, I actually want them to bring it back but unlike you I know they can’t.
As I said, if they could bring it back they would have, Blizzard management like money.
I cant wait till blizzard needs that influx of money and they magically find a way to bring back clones. I mean, I would use it… =)
There is no way they are gone for good. No way in hell.
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My alliance characters that were sent to TBCC are definitely gone. Downloaded the wrath Classic and deleted them since I’ll not be playing them. 
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You realize all you’re doing is annoying the rest of us with your incessant entitled whining?
Blizzard themselves…already said DELETED.
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Well. Isn’t this thread timely. I did not clone my Classic character and did not realize this was a temporary service. I resubbed today after a friend group let me know that Classic Era is alive, and they were going to resub.
I was ecstatic, but now the wind has been completely taken out of my sails. For me, this may be a deal breaker and it is definitely one for the people that were planning on resubbing.
I’m not interested in responding to any of the mean spirited replies I am sure I will get, but I will give the thread a bump anyhow.
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Blizzards communication on the ending of this service was not good, but then again a lot of people never read Blizzards emails anyway.
I do have a question, if you had known the service was ending a year ago, would you have cloned back then when the realms were almost empty?
We all know the real answer to that question…
As someone who bought a few clones when it was near the end and cheap, I was just wondering if others would have done the same if they knew.
Also, the characters I didn’t play in TBC/Wrath I activated on Era, which was free.
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Its just a bunch of people trying to piggyback on a fads hype.
If they are honest then they would say that but I think most actually knew cloning was ending and since it was almost empty they didn’t bother.
IM pretty Sure Blizzard permanently deleted the data for the clones.
Why?
because i provided a bank statement that shows where I cloned my character, and they wont restore it.
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I had the same problem. I was new to WoW in 2019 after trying the 7 day free trials back in original test trial releases in 06-07 or what not and going back to RuneScape because I was too young to afford $15/mo and felt lost since nobody was around the starter zones, so felt lonely… Anyways… I had so much fun on the 2019 release and played up until ZG release. Life got in the way and I wasn’t able to play for a few years. I came back to my characters being moved to “progression realms” instead of staying on Classic(said the research I had done before contacting them). It upset me that they offered to keep your characters on Classic AND progression realms for a limited time, IF you paid them. If you were away from the game entirely for a few years, you had no idea this was possible.
I had contacted Blizzard support being upset about this and asked if I could please have my characters on Classic or on both if that’s possible. In short, and without posting my entire ticket here, they said “no.” At this point, I hadn’t even logged onto the game yet, so I didn’t know if I was on a good server after they moved everything, or a bad server. I then asked a longer detailed question but I’ll say it in short here, “Okay, well, can you please move my characters to ‘enter server name here’ for me, so I don’t mess things up when I log in or something. I’m not sure how logging in and moving the characters work. Could you please just move my two lv 60s and my low level priest to ‘server I requested’ if I am not already on that server if you threw me in one. I’m not sure how this works.” In short, they said, “no, you need to pay for server transfers for any characters you want to move.”
I then became extremely upset but did not respond anymore. They DID get the money out of me which is their goal. What I’m not happy about is the customer service. A much better response to anyone in this situation would have been, “Yes, we can move those characters, as requested to that server of your choice because you were away from the game at the time of the merge. We understand and we would like you to understand that this will be a one time offer. Are you sure you want to follow through with this action?” If If someone responded, “Yes,” they would have moved them. If someone would say, “No,” then they would reply with, “Okay, please let us know when you would like us to help you with that. Until then, this ticket will be closed.” No note needs to be placed on the account as a special request for the next agent to understand the situation because this should be allowed for anyone that was in this situation. We weren’t there for the merge and we weren’t there for TBC. Therefore, throwing us on a dead server is not right. I understand most servers merged and closed but let players have a free choice where to continue their game. As it sits now, it costs $65+tax to come back to the game for 1mo with 3 characters. Luckily I caught the sale, so it was $50+tax… Still too much for TESTING out the game in the expansion that you never played before since new to WoW, while also missing out on P4/5-6 of vanilla and TBC… I was SO turned off from coming back, I wasn’t going to. A buddy of mine begged me to change my mind. I did it for him. I do feel like I missed so much content and am left behind a little, but I’m going to try to get back into it.
It just was NOT a good welcome back at all. We should be trying to get people to play the game. Not force people away and be cold to them because all you care about is greed. Think about the long term… If you be kind and allow this option, you open up the game to a player and his/her friends may potentially subscribe, play, purchase WoW tokens or any other purchases. Be smart. You want to grow your game, not kill it. I feel like the customer service I experienced many many years ago was much more helpful and kind.
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