Full bank of items and get 2 holiday pets back? I’d say thanks, but I’d rather have heard a too bad, so sad instead.
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I’m so furious right now after getting a handful of mails with items like a stack of DF herb and ore, some silk, a piece of leather, some blackrock ore. I mean just a few things from a guildbank that was like 80% to 90% or so decimated. The one place in life in which I felt safe has been violated.
Considering how much time people invested in their game and storing important stuff…consider the time we took out of our lives to do this. The family and friends we didn’t spend time with, the things we didn’t do because we were doing “this”. The books we did not read or events we decided not to attend because we were playing this. Secure in the knowledge that there are such things as BACKUPS!!! I am sure if might be hard but I am also sure it could be possible to perform directed backups to the guilds that were affected. Not to the whole game. Yeah, sounds like it would be a lot of time and effort. But they’d do it if they wanted to keep seeing my money. But little ole me leaving wouldn’t bother them a bit. They just expect everyone to keep paying and being the good sheep. Because what else would we do? Well to steal a line from Prince, “I’m here to tell ya, there’s something else…”
Dunno what that is but I’m going to do my best to find it. As people in other posts have mentioned the quality of everything about this game has deteriorated. Not really much is challenging anymore like the days when you had to be very strategic to get your quests done for Jintha Alor, or the Minds Eye quest with the elite ogres in STV. It is all just a cake walk and everyone gets a trophy (a purple)!!! Clothes look like worse crap than they ever did. Mostly all look the same. No creativity or imagination. Same with pets and mounts. But ya know, they figure we will just keep on paying and playing and we have. Until now. This guild bank fiasco just feels so invasive and final. Their response does show exactly how much they care and what they think of us. Again, not sure what I’m going to do but I believe I am going to take a break so I don’t do anything rash. Zero loyalty, it’s so upsetting. Much love to my fellow gamers because I care, I just can’t fix it.
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I have 170 guild banks and 34 were affected at various levels. So what is that … 18-19%?
I classified my losses as:
Full Wipe - 8 - (everything missing)
Major - 12 - (ALOT of stuff missing)
Medium - 7 - (7+ missing)
Minor - 7 - (1-7 items missing)
None of my full wipes were restored – not a single item. Two friends said them same thing. Which indicates that maybe a full wipe is something different that did not fit Blizzard’s lackluster automated restore process. Really “could not” is, let’s face it “will not.” The logs show ALL my items – they CAN restore it.
My major’s never got a full restore or even half of the items.
Meanwhile, my mediums and minors almost always got full restores. Ironically … the ones I care about the least face palm
These guilds were on all servers. There is no rhyme or reason to which items were or were not wiped. I had everything organized in a way I could see what was missing. I noticed that rows seemed to be erased more often than columns.
There is my data.
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People are saying they are getting items returned that they already have in the guild bank, so it would make sense that an empty bank would have nothing returned. I emptied my most affected bank (I panicked) and I have received nothing in the mail.
Very, very not cool Blizzard.
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Someone started a spread sheet around Sept 5, it was at 399+ guilds 16 days ago.
One of the larger bug threads link: Guild bank missing items - what happened? - #1646 by Vaelhaeyn-wyrmrest-accord
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My main GB (7 tabs) 80-90% wiped out this is what I got back in the mail.
My alts main guild (7 tabs) 50-75% wiped out, this is what I got in the mail this morning.
Beyond insulting.
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I literally received no mail this morning for my missing items.
‘Sorry we deleted your stuff, no we’re not going to make you whole’
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Has the restoration process completed? What has been sent is all or is the process ongoing?
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First time posting on this matter. Full Guild Bank with one tab all old xmog items, other tabs full of herbs, ore, inks, gems, thousands of items from years back, living steel, trillium and so on. Received 4 mail each with dragon flight items,
637 x Hochenblume
15 x Saxifrage
12 x maybe meat
7 x fish
and I think these are items I deposited into the bank after the bug started. Pretty devastated about the loss of all the things I have been collecting over the last 16 plus years.
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99% wiped alt guild bank. First guild I joined/made with friends in 2004 that became a repository as people moved on. Almost 20 years I’ve maintained it - from storing Hakkari coins/bijous for Rep needs back in the day to holding on to Primals/Motes/etc for the value. Tons of pets. Gone. Insane rep marks/tokens/etc, gone. Classic mats, some no longer in game (Sinew/Hide), gone. Decades of work, gone.
I’m staring at the logs on each tab. You can literally SEE what was deposited and NEVER withdrawn. How is that not part of the restoration at the very least? If in Log, and not in bank, then mail it! It’s a LOG! Write a compare and use it! START SOMEWHERE!
Oh - and no mail with missing items either, yet. But apparently, the term ‘some’ means something completely different to Blizzard than it does to us. Truly upsetting…
Blizz needs to see this to a proper conclusion and not dust their hands of it so easily.
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Thank you for at least posting about this.
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I’ve been lurking/keeping an eye on multiple WoW-verse comments sections (wowhead, reddit, MMO-C, etc) since yesterday and so far I haven’t seen a single poster/commentator actually come forward with a definitive “i got all my stuff back just now” comment… instead I’m seeing lots of “well, i got back a few stacks of Mageweave cloth”-style comments, hmmmmm 
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Would LOVE an answer to this too. My assumption is what was sent was what we get whether it be something, one thing or nothing.
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I’m sure they’re going to squeeze a few more months of sub fees out of people before they say anything else. Look how long it took them to say anything about it…
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oh heck, I don’t expect to hear anything ever again, lol. They waited till a Friday night to even say oh hey here it is. They’ve got me on the hook till March so may as well stay delusional till then.
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Am I going to find out that the Reps you reset back to Neutral are forever stuck there too and I need to reearn them.
What data is actually safe? What progress can I actually be assured will be there tomorrow?
This is such a core trust-breaking feature that its hard to imagine Blizzard can actually secure any more of my data.
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Blizzard has really cooked their goose on this issue now…such a shame its at the cost of 1000’s of players in game time and work now…I am one of the few that got lucky and none of my private guild banks were effected by this issue…I’ll say I feel really bad to any of the players effected and not getting back what they worked for years to get is mostly gone now…its damn sad Blizzard let this happen…its a big slap in the faces of players that blizzard has state they can only get so much back …sad sad sad…
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Sorry, I was coming from a more end user-friendly perspective. I essentially know jack all about coding. 
I checked my various alt GMs again earlier today and there was no new mail (not even for those that never received any in the first place that should have). It’s extremely doubtful any further action will be taken. “One and done”, as that old phrase goes.
I intend to stick around for the 20th anniversary event at least since my active sub lasts through April 2025, but damn I feel so demoralized. I struggled to even login to do some warband reputation world quests and pick up the new Brewfest cosmetic back piece just now. Don’t know if I’ll renew my sub or not, but I’ve basically stopped using my guild banks because of the massive screw-up. Can’t trust it anymore.
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Not Acceptable Linxy. the accounts werent not HACKED this was casued by a internal glitch that casued people 20 year collection farm to go POOF. If you ask me this is worse then being HACKed, Blizzard can NOLONER be trusted. Blizzard has lost the trust of the player-base just reading the posts in these forums
Alittle about myself and my guild 8 tabed guild bank CLEANED out. ginfo my guilds name is Crusäder Knights have 132 members 9 connected accounts of ownership of 15 accounts. Aquired 8th tab 07-04-14 along with the stay classy (all on my own) achievement same date. been playing and collecting since Vanilla. Had that entire 20 year collection wiped out by a blizzarrd BUG and not a HACKER. Its why I canceled and will not reactive until full items restored 14 of my 15 accounts… Blizzard again you my own this product but blizzard dont own my TIME and like any good employee I want PAID… I ran time on my 1st accounts I have total of 1286 days 2hours 56 minutes as of this post… thats just 1 account I have 15.
Will give 3 months for FULL restoration of gbank items b4 I use the money from the 14 other accounts for a LAWYER and a plane ride too Irvine CALI
got this right from Google “A breach of trust in California occurs when a trustee fails to fulfill their fiduciary duty to act in the best interests of the trust and its beneficiaries. This can have serious legal consequences.”
We are (Players) what made blizzard what it is today
Plaintiff, WOW Playerbase
Defendants : ACTIVISION BLIZZARD, INC., BLIZZARD
ENTERTAINMENT, INC., and ACTIVISION
PUBLISHING, INC?
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It really is historic that this has happened, and not in a good way.
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