I miss that. Sometimes they’d do a bit of corny RPing, describing a scene and how they’d enter. I’d get the little black box in my chat, answering a questing or asking to clarify something I said in the ticket. Back then, they didn’t discourage sending a ticket to get something resolved.
I was never fortunate enough to SEE a GM in the wild - I’ve heard of those black-and-brown robed figures. I wish I could have seen them once. Back then, they seemed MAGICAL, even if they still were just Customer Service Reps. And I do think they had many more people in customer service (some summary for the upcoming Jason Schrier book describes how Mike Morheime fought with Bobby Kotick over trying to keep the WOW CS team intact, as Activision encroached more and more into Blizzard) as well as more leeway to help the customer in various ways. Now, we have AI and probably low-paid, understaffed staff with scrips and form letters, I’m guessing.
While I doubt I’ll get anything back, I do check my main toon - the one that runs an actual, active guild (mostly because I check the mail on that toon anyway) and on the main bank - the one that lost almost everything. So far, across 8 banks and 1 active guild, I got I think 6 partial stacks of stuff, and ALL of them were items that were already in the bank AFTER everything else disappeared.
The one weird and suspicious one was the Vigil’s Torch for my Herb bank. I keep things in fairly neat stacks - if I have a 1000 or more, there WILL be a full stack of 1000, and then leftover in another stack. As I didn’t screenshot, I don’t know exactly how many of what I had, but in the bank, I had 770. In the mail, I got 230. That’s . . . weird. I don’t imagine whatever bug erasing PARTIAL stacks of stuff - I suppose it COULD, but wouldn’t think so. So, what happened? Did they just go into my bank, look at the full stack of Vigil’s Torch I had, break it, leave 770 and send me back 230? Which made me wonder if they just either looked in my bank (rather than any database) for what I HAD (after the disappearance) and just send me more of it, OR did they go into my bank and just take more stuff from my bank just to give it back to me???
My yearly sub runs out Oct 3, 2024…as I said I was paying yearly …well now come next week I will only pay for month to month for now…and No I didn’t lose anything out of my 5 private guild but I am doing this to show Blizzard some of us have had enough and want this game turned around …after the mess with Pathfinder and Disabled Players being treated badly by Blizzard and by many of players here that post I am not going to put up with it anymore…so each month now I will decided if I am staying or not.
Nobody should go though losing 20+ yrs of things they collected and felt close to be lost and Blizzard just throws up its hands and says here …is a stack of linen cloth to replaces the thousands of items you lost …its BS…the tagging of adding Pathfinder too TWW start to get Steady flight is another notch against them for me making players have to work harder to just get flying that doesn’t make them throw up or put in pain…it should of never been put in TWW in the first place esp since Dragon Flying was open to use Day one of EA of TWW…its wrong plain and simple.
I do agree that choosing EITHER feels like they are winning. I’ve good about reporting bugs as well as putting in a LOT of feedback - be it ideas I have or shortcomings I’ve noticed. I’d like to keep fighting as well - whether here or elsewhere. I’ve been commenting on various third–party sites before they all seemed to take notice . . . a week and a day ago. I hope we - whether we comment, or quit, or do something else to rattle the cage - make SOME difference.
While big sites, like Massively, WoWHead, Gamerant, etc., has published articles, kind of disappointed that a lot of the YouTubers remain mum - they usually pick up on the NEWS once it’s out in the open. I guess they don’t want to bite the hand . . . They’ve been some of the best advocates of players in the past.
You want to try to defer and deflect your inability to notice you were wrong.
You didn’t read things correctly and injected yourself into a convo with incorrect facts/statements and then continue down that road until I literally had to tell you – read.
What I told you was that you were either being a troll or you were not good at reading comprehension. Apparently, it was the reading part.
You should have just stopped when you discovered you were wrong. You didn’t. You still haven’t and I suspect you won’t. Admitting when you are wrong apparently is difficult for you.
If there is a NELIN out there, I wanted to say THANK YOU for your kindness and kind words. I got your mail in-game. I honestly teared up and for once, am not embarrassed about it. I was trying to reply through in-game mail, but it wouldn’t go through - I guess the toon is gone. (I wanted to write a personal message but could not - sorry I had to make this public).
Our community will be poorer for having lost kind souls like you.
Wouldn’t go through as in what was the error message?
I’ve found I have to throw a single copper in to send mail when I’m not sending any physical items over.
I still haven’t received any items back from our guild bank in the mail to my GM character. Wondered if this is still forth-coming or not - this is where I was told to go to comment on this particular post as the previous ones I commented on were locked for commenting. Kinda disappointed that some people received items back and we got absolutely nothing
I got a profession tool I never had in my bank to begin with and a swift lovebird that I did have… but wasn’t missing from my bank so now I have an extra. Meanwhile, millions of gold worth of items missing and some are no longer in game like Dirge’s chops recipes and TCG items and more crafting/rep mats than I can even remember. These people told me “thanks for your patience” and gave me the finger at the same time. I’m not letting this go. If the roles were reversed and I was messing up their stuff, they would spare no expense to come after me.
In game tracking and background tracking… no, I don’t believe this. This is just like in the ‘real world’ intentional/lapse protections for you info to be stolen. I don’t believe they ‘can’t’ restore our GB’s… they can.
They closed the other big forum about this problem. They are literally silencing yall at this point. Take my advice and leave like myself and others have. They don’t about our lost stuff and if you haven’t figured it out after all this, you never will.