Some of them are unable to be obtained any more, is also the problem. Some can take a long time to acquire, that’s the way I understand it. Losing stuff because the games backups failed with a huge patch that probably should have had a lot of backups is not good.
That’s not actually the bank giving you the items back (They’re gone), but perhaps Blizzard needs another company to step in for backups and ‘insurance’ on players items lol.
Are some of you ignoring that this happed due to switching over to a new system and that they do keep track of stuff otherwise they wouldn’t be able to do item restorations at all, which they’ve been doing for a long time. It’s just in this one particular instance where the data was lost and wasn’t able to be retrieved.
If duping was an issue in WoW like it is in other games like new world, we’d be able to tell pretty quickly.
The blue post told us what happened.
Y’all have beaten the dust of this dead horse way too long now. We ain’t gettin’ stuff back.
They do not. This was told to you.
No they aren’t embarrassed. And no they were not critical. I can still play the game without the crap in my guild bank.
Yes, let’s try not to act obtuse.
they seemed to have learned something.
Cata wow had a similar issue when they fiddled with something. But it only blanked out 1 guild tab. I want to say 7?
So damage reduced. and iirc a high rate of restoring that one tab.
I mean, yeah, it would be a bummer to lose some of the stuff that I have and can’t get again, but I’ve had that happen before. My Draenei hunter used to wear just the PERFECT pair of pants, it took a bunch of time rolling up a throwaway Goblin Warrior to the point that they had access to a mailbox (basically the entire length of the very long Goblin starter zone experience) and could mail their startup clothes. At the time they were mail pants, because that was when 1-40 armor was leather for hunters/shamans and mail for warriors/paladins then it got switched up to mail/plate in the later levels. Who knew why? But it meant that my Hunter had good-looking transmog pants.
Then they undid the level 40 armor type switchup and my hunter was now wearing pants that if they were ever taken off they’d turn into plate and couldn’t be put back on. Which happened like, right away because they were white-quality pants and I needed to have pants with stats to do actual content. And even when transmog was added, it was white quality and couldn’t be added to my collection. And then even when they allowed white and gray items to be transmogged, they were still PLATE pants that my Hunter could never use the appearance of.
Stuff happens, I have other stuff and keep rolling on.
The FDIC gives you up to $250,000 per depositor per account of your money back if the bank loses it somehow.
The problem with in-game items is that the real-world value is very specifically $0 from a legal perspective. There’s nothing of real-world value to insure or restore.
Its a video game, who cares if some fake items are missing. Its not that big of a deal.
I have an idea. What if we hire some goblin bankers from Orgrimmar and they have a special vault for stuff you hoard. Then if your regular bank ever gets wiped out again, at least you’re hoarding addiction is protected and your stuff is still there because it’s not actually tied to your account and you have to walk into a bank and talk to a special goblin? 
like a safety deposit box in Switzerland
Too expensive in Irvine, California.
your source for that is? because that sounds like some dev trying to be cute.
whether they can or not is irrelevant. they have proven time and time again they wont restore items like that.
sure they can but why? because some random unpredictable bug will wipe some peoples stuff out? if you try to plan for every single contingency and throw money at the problems youll be broke before the year is out.
why? everyone loves to shout that term “mutil billion dollar” do you know how they got to be that? proably one of the reasons is cutting costs at every corner they can.
exactly so people should probably stop beating this dead horse.
Yeah… a “bug”… because you know, blizz doesn’t keep logs of everything.
If you’re still subbed after this much time with this issue not being resolved then you have clearly accepted the issue and should move on.
Bold of you to assume it’s an act.
But it’s my favorite kind of angle!
Do you think they are acute for saying it?
What did you call me?!
Exactly. They got an official reply, some stuff was mailed back and some was lost forever.
I don’t use a guild bank so I didn’t care/notice. But I will say, you own nothing in this game. The ToS even states that. We pay to play it, but it’s just a license and we don’t own anything. If you’re mad enough about what was lost, quit. Otherwise, give it up. Cause nothing else will/can be done about it.
statistics page lmao in character stats
Well, if you have a personal summoning stone, I’ll see what I can do to change that.
Short of making an awkward flirtatious comment, let’s just say that was a typo
I haven’t even checked one of my personal guild banks since before the TWW prepatch because I’m afraid it will be all empty tabs. I also haven’t used the Warband bank (or whatever it’s called) at all because I don’t trust its reliability after the guild bank debacle.
Honestly, it really sucks because I always considered Blizzard to be the gold standard when it came to reliable inventory systems and item storage within their games.