The “restoration” mail has officially expired. It’s been 90 days since what few items Blizzard was able to “pack up” and send to guild leaders hit our mailboxes. Whatever mail was not retrieved is now gone forever.
To those who have yet to discover their guild bank losses and have come across this thread at some point in the future, it’s ok! You would have received very little or none of your items back, so don’t sweat missing the mail.
And to all denizens of The Maw, whether you’re still exploring Azeroth or have found joy in another universe, wishing you all a happy and safe holiday season!
Same to you Capt! I wish Greatfather Winter would fill our Guild Vaults with all of our missing items instead of mailing us a few pieces of linen or copper or whatever, but he won’t. I hope you are enjoying the holiday in whatever is the best way you can!!
Something occurred to me. We can claim outrageous stats, such as “Blizzard deleted millions of player guild bank items”, and no one can challenge that claim except Blizzard, but because Blizzard won’t respond to any of our posts, with any official data, ALL our claims are valid.
Therefore… Blizzard deleted HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF OUR ITEMS, and they enjoyed doing it, and they hate us all.
Alright, this obviously isn’t true. But because Blizzard is ghosting this topic it might as well be.
Only Blizzard can tell us how many guilds were affected, and how many many items were wiped out.
Just as I was almost coming to terms with Blizz wiping decades of items, with no compensation/compassion/empathy, I decided I wanted to farm a few new Weapon Illusions.
Then I realized, that many of the ones I never had crafted… needed legacy items I had tons of in the GBank Blizz wiped out.
Which goes back to why so many of us even had an Alt GBank to begin with.
I want my items back. Items I paid, via consistent subscription, to earn. Held up my end… how about you Blizz?
This is EXACTLY the sort of thing I was saving so much of my old mats for. As a tailor/enchanter on my main and LW on one of my alts, I liked being able to make mogs and enchant illusions for my guildies and friends. During Dragonflight, there was a particular toy you could get from a chest in Zaralek Caverns but ONLY if you had a particular cloak, the Onyxia Scale Cloak - an item from Vanilla. The cloak is made by Leatherworkers BUT requires a tailored item - Cindercloth Cloak. Well, at the time, I had everything I needed. I popped over to my main bank toon (who had mostly tailoring, enchanting, elemental and dungeon/raid-obtained mats, plus some misc and a bunch of recipes) got the bolts of runecloth, essence of fire, sent them to my tailor, who simply bought a rune thread from a vendor, and made the cloak, sent it to my LW alt who had some scales of Onyxia and . . . VOILA!! Was able to make the cloak for myself, sent some to friends and put some in our guild vault.
But then, I lost pretty much all of the stuff on my main bank. (Though an extremely kind person sent me all the stuff they still had left in the vault after this “bank robbery” incident, which is what got them to quit, so I now have SOME of the mats). Thinking that Blizzard could do something like that again - have an item obtainable by wearing a LEGACY CRAFTED ITEM is making me crazy. Also, if someone says “Wow, I wish I had all of those enchant illusions,” I’d have to check to see if I actually HAVE any of the mats needed. Before, I had no issues. In fact, it felt nice since I’d been squirreling the items away just for such occasions and it was nice to be able to just say “HEY guess what? I can make them for you!”
Wonder how many “snail mail” letters we’d have to write to “higher ups” at Blizzard,…before someone there acknowledges and responds to the issue with a “heart felt response” rather than the 1 reply we got waaaaaaay back at the start of this post…with nothing.
Came across a site called spentonwow and uh. definitely stings to look at an approximate value of how much time and money I’ve spent playing just on this account. And considering I’ve always been a pretty casual player with a limited budget, it’s gotta be worse for people who have spent a lot more time/money on this game. With everything in my guild bank, I could’ve paid for my sub for at least a year or two. I like to support games that make an effort to provide a good experience, and I’ve been willing to overlook the various issues wow has had over time. But now?
I don’t want a faster release schedule, I want the basic features of the game to work as intended. I don’t want more FOMO, new content that’s gonna be a ghost town in a few months when the next FOMO thing comes out. I want to be able to collect things without having to worry that they might just vanish with no recompense or even a legitimate acknowledgement, effectively wasting all my time. I replay games I like, with the understanding that I’ll be starting from scratch, but that’s different to having the rug pulled out from under me and having everything taken off me without warning.
What’s the point of collecting achieves/pets/loot/etc if it can all be gone tomorrow? Yes, I know wow could shut down tomorrow, but then the entire game is gone for everyone, not a random mix of half empty and fully empty guild banks with some people getting a few measly items back and others getting nothing. I know it’s all about the money, and anyone who actually cares about the game itself was probably shafted or is unable to actually do anything about it’s current state, but when will companies realise that a good game will sell more than a bad game? I will happily pay full price for a finished, working game than pay for something buggy and broken and riddled with insidious microtransactions and battle passes and an in-game store.
Sorry to say its not going to happen …they have washed their hands of this mess now…and moved on …its damn sad really this happened and Blizzard is leaving it like this…I personally didn’t lose any of my guild banks stuff but I know personal other that did…one guild mate lost 3 banks worth of mats now…gone…
While many won’t agree I think we are seeing the slow death of WoW, not enough employees to maintain data integrity, not enough to work out constant bugs with every Tuesday maintenance, not enough to even respond to players. It will all come crashing down eventually and Microsoft will either sell it off to someone who will attempt to repair it or just close the door on 30 years worth of product.
I did read Play Nice, and it finishes off with Microsoft (Xbox) acquiring Activision and that mass layoff. The book also describes how all of Blizzard’s devs are now assigned to teams, so there’s a team dedicated to WoW upkeep, one for Diablo, and so on. I don’t expect anything new to come out of Blizzard ever again. There’s simply no room to develop.
Balder’s Gate3 is a great game that I don’t have to pay monthly fees. Since Blizzard doesn’t want to do any kind of fix or compensation for the full 7 guild tabs of stuff I lost, I think I am going that route. There are many more fish (games) in the sea that would be happy to have me spend money on them and probably treat me better.
I was going to make a grinch joke, but at least he put everything he stole back for Christmas. I guess in this timeline the grinch kept everything for himself.
I just checked my 2 personal guild banks for the first time last night (Since I haven’t been playing the game very much), found this forum, skimmed through it, and sent in a ticket. Got a ticket response not too long after saying that the restoration process may have not restored all items blah blah. I had mentioned that if any were restored, that I was not online at the time to receive them, because I had no clue that this would have ever been an issue. The ticket response sent me right back here, not that it’s helpful as many people are in the exact same boat and never had any items restored.
Yeah, ticket responses are 99% canned/template/automated responses.
All your stuff is gone just like the rest of us. Your best bet is to just cancel and play/do whatever you were before coming back. This game is garbage now, and the people pulling the strings only care about getting money, not providing a quality experience whatsoever.
Don’t look at your reputations or achievements, good chance you’re missing a bunch.
Don’t put things in the guild bank, nothing is safe there.
Avoid the warband bank, it does all kinds of wonky crap.
Don’t try transferring currency between warband characters, you’ll lose it.
Good luck trying to complete the FOMO events they keep churning out, as shown by the bug report forum, they are riddled with bugs and glitches.
Resubbed for 3 months on 2 accounts after Linxy said that you may not get everything back (see top blue post). Guild bank lost 7 tabs worth of items collected over 19 years. So $110 AUS and 3 months later still nothing. We were lied to. My last sub runs out tomorrow and be effed if I am going to give this dumster fire of a game another cent.
