Yet here you are interacting with it…
My advice, block threads that you find useless/irritating/etc. You will be a lot happier not getting all worked up over something you can’t change. People gonna people
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It also would be easier not to get into this rut if every time someone brings up missing the clone, people feel called to proclaim that:
Post 2 of the current thread, where OP not even asks for a re-awakening of the clones, but just for a way to cope with the loss, as per title.
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I’d say if you want to play classic era just re-roll yourself a toon and level away and don’t worry about the other characters. Heck if you never plan on playing cata just delete them. This is just a game to play for fun and waste some time. No idea why people get so worked up and attached to virtual stuff. Sure it stings abit when stuff happens but it’s best to just move on with life and not dwell on things that you can’t change.
This is a great callout.
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And if you aren’t going to actually try something productive to get your precious clones back then why bother posting? Take your own advice, if I can better spend my time and effort elsewhere, you can spend your time doing a better job at attempting to get those clones back. It sounds like you care less about your missing clone and more about incessant whining.
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An appropriate callout is also how our friend who is “oh so distraught” posted on a 50 Highborne with no post history once on a topic that stirs debate and has since to return multiple days later to discuss with or even thank those who support him in the thread after he specifically asked the community for advice or support.
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Were I a returning player and had a similar “welcome” I would also not return.
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I am not moaning over people posting here - you are.
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If I was someone who was distraught and stressed I’d seek professional help and not post on a forum board for a video game. Point stands, no post history, 50 highborne, and has bailed on the topic. Sounds like they just want to stir the pot.
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If you see conspiracy everywhere you look, perhaps you should take your own advice?
Maybe you’re right, maybe you’re not, but it costs us nothing to be kind to others and frankly, it’s not your job to uncover the deep, dark, underbelly of the big clone conspiracy, then punish the conspirators.
You can act how you want I suppose, but we all get to choose who we associate with and the forums give us tools to manage this. I hope things improve for you!
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Conspiracy? It’s calling a spade a spade. You don’t care as you either A. Have nothing invested in it, or B. it suits your point of view. A person can make 45 topics going “GIMME CLONE NOW” and you’ll have those that support it jumping in every single one going “Here here!” because it supports what they are after, troll or not. Were someone else to do the same making topics with links to Blizzard saying the service isn’t coming back and they deleted the clones, they’d be in there with torches and pitchforks.
I gave them the kindness in multiple threads posting the information where Blizzard said the data is gone. I’ve tried to be kind giving advice on what’s worked on other projects and what will actually get results. Apparently radio silence over a year and a “We deleted your crap” post isn’t enough. It isn’t kindness, it’s pity. He helps those who help themselves.
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Seems a lot of people are being rude. I’m sorry.
I’m on the spectrum, and not saying you are, but I’ve had similar feelings about some characters. My Classic shaman got pushed to the BC realms, and I didn’t have the spare money at the time to clone a copy to Classic (plus it felt kinda pointless). They were on a US realm while I lived in OCE as I was playing with American friends at the time, but I’ve since gone to OCE to have better raid times. That shaman is still there to play, and I do touch them rarely, but it feels like a waste because they won’t ever get to have a proper raiding guild again.
I could (and I think I have) made a new Shaman on OCE, but I get the same feeling as you. Like its a waste to relevel it when I already have one I could play, just blocked by cost.
I ended up reconciling these feelings by treating those characters as time capsules. My Classic shaman is locked in at 60. She has her mix of raiding gear, the mats to create Sulfuron for some reason despite being resto. My Warrior from Legion is eternally 45, his gear a mix of Emerald Nightmare and Nighthold. My Monk main during Legion and Bfa was kept at 50, dressed in his best Palace Gear (until I wanted to see how Brm was without fully leveling a new one, so now he’s 70, tested some keys, then back in 50 gear and logged on the Wandering Isle).
For each of them, I made a little story to give them a peaceful end. Warrior got revenge for his, and all Orcs, actions during the First War by slaying Gul’dan. He left shortly after to seek peace. Shaman felt the distress of the Elements across Azeroth due to their imbalance. Extinguishing Ragnaros and ending C’thun quietened their cries. Shortly after, she wandered into the Wilds to find smaller ways to aid the Elements. Living on the Wandering Isle all his life, Monk would often sit by the edge of the shell and watch the Ocean. Over time, he saw glimpses of the Ocean life in pain. Finding out about the Naga, and therefore Azshara, which were largely responsible for this, he wanted to end her and bring peace to the Oceans. Achieving this, he retired to the Wandering Isle, content to see the life of the Ocean thriving.
My point being, is that its disappointing for sure that those characters have been left behind for a myriad of reasons. But you can give them a nice ending to their story, complete that goal, and leave them as eternal champions.
You can always try RPing to yourself. That your other characters stories have gotten a happy ending. Make a new character, and give them a new goal. Something that you can’t just pull an old character out to fix, because its not their story.
I’m sorry that it’s affected you, but I hope you know other people have these feelings and its alright, and I hope I’ve given a few ways for you to explore working through it 
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Wow… didn’t do well in reading comprehension I guess.
He didn’t say that they made a mistake in shutting down the service (Although I DO believe it was a mistake - keeping the data cost them nothing), he said their sh!tty communication on the matter was the issue. I had no idea it was going to happen - I took them on their word that character data would never go away - I took them on their word that I could truly decide where my character would go later (with NO hint what-so-ever about a deadline) and not at that time.
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(Quick note, consider editing your post. Using symbols to bypass the language filter can get you a temp forum ban for a few days. It’s not a big deal to me but there’s some report trolls about so it’s better to just not worry about it :D)
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You know that some people didn’t go to TBC right? We logged into our Era toons from day one into a dead world as all these players went on to TBC and threw vanilla into the trashcan for the current hype of the month.
Era was quite empty for a while and it took a bit for the economy to stabilize. And what really helped with that and the re-invigorating of leveling in general was the ending of the clone service. People could finally have confidence that there wont be a dozen gold capped toons that will randomly show up and destroy the economy at any moment.
If something is important, one generally doesn’t need emails and notifications to act, they do so. Most people that lost their Era toons didn’t give a single care about those toons until Era became popular again and then they got fomo.
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I already addressed the OP. I apologized for their loss and advised they dont play Era.
I was addressing a claim from another poster. I didn’t do it directly because I simply wanted the correct point of view asserted lest someone happen upon this thread and get misinformed. Also, the poster in question has a history of arguing in bad faith, particularly where this topic is concerned.
Blizzard didn’t do anything wrong, they made a decision that became unpopular well after the fact and a great deal of “but muh clones” people have been extremely disingenuous if not hostile when pointed to the simple truth of the matter. Hence the constant bickering.
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lol truth train commin thru
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Just because someone takes a break from something doesn’t mean they don’t still like that thing, or care about it. If I remember correctly, didn’t you take a break a while back for several months? If, during the time you were away from the game, had Blizzard put up a notification on the bnet launcher only saying “Click this button or lose your Era characters,” and you missed it, would you too not be upset?
Furthermore, TBC was absoultey a great time to take a break from Era. It had been a two year run and a great time for a break. If you were into TBC it made sense to play that. If you were not but had been going hard, it made sense to take a break.
How folks choose to spend their gaming time doesn’t devalue them.
This is maybe a different discussion, but there’s many compromises that could have been made here. Realm transfer gold limitations spring to mind. I mean it sucks losing a bunch of gold, but it sucks more losing a bunch of gold and your character.
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I paid for my clone the second the service was available and paid the higher early price. There was never a question in my mind as to whether it was worth doing. To be honestly I am still shocked at how much of the community willingly went to TBC.
I guess it answers the question: “If your friends jump off a bridge will you”
For every player that legitimately loves vanilla and was unable for nearly 500 days to access a computer to make their clone, I would posit there are 100+ players that said vanilla was trash, hyped tbc / cata, and only started to want their characters back when it grew in popularity and they wanted to be part of the cool crowd.
I don’t think they cared about their Era toons until the resurgence during mid wotlk, when all of a sudden ‘blizzard deleted their beloved toons’.
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Me too! Because I wanted to and I was playing at the time. While there was a time where I was annoyed with Blizzard at the way they handled server clustering when the population was super low, I never regreted my actual purchase. Though I do admit to being mildly annoyed that I bought it and they dropped the price shortly afterwards 
The whole problem is that the clone service didn’t have a time limit on it, right up until it did. If I wasn’t playing WoW at the time, I wouldn’t have done the clone. Not because I didn’t want to preserve my character, but just because I wouldn’t have had an active sub at the time and so there would be no reason to sub and pay for it, I could always do it later when I decided to come back.
Had Blizzard been up front that the clone was a limited tie offer, or had they sent my account an email telling me the service was shutting down, I absolutely would have resubbed to preserve my characters. The problem is that they didn’t give people a fair opportunity to know that this was happening.
Like I said, I didn’t get bit by this, but it doesn’t take a lot of mental effort to understand how people did. My point earlier was that you’ve taken breaks from WoW in the past and may well do so again in the future. Clearly you care about the game, so why do you think that would be universally different for anybody else?
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