For those of you who put in a ticket to Blizzard about your missing guild bank items, how did you categorize it? (I put in one, I think under “items” and then “not listed” and got back a craptastic “answer” on Item Restoration which has nothing to do with the guild bank situation.)
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So I guess it’s not a “bank” as much as a “place to put stuff where it might be there later or not”
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Unfortunately tickets will not do anything. I don’t blame the GM’s or CS, it’s not their call. They can’t do anything.
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The ownership of digital assets is still in the 20th century and because of this, companies always get the upper hand.
No matter if it´s the closure of popular games like SWG and Warhammer, or if content is removed, the company is making the calls, as you only rent their service and just like with an appartment, your rights are limited if the owner decides to alter “your” home.
While this may have worked with games like Counter Strike, it has become a major problem with MMO´s, where players spend thousands of hours and $$$ building themselves a home, that in the end, never truly becomes theirs.
That after all those years, politicians are stll clueless and courts without juristiction makes me speechless, as gaming has long time ago left the “niche” territory of little nerds in the basement. It´s a global movement and the players need proper support and protection.
Anyways, the only thing that may hurt a gaming company today is bad press, as that will affect their stock prices, but for this to happen, major networks need to get involved. They have the man power and ressources to research what has happened and if Blizzard was truly reckless and if they told the truth.
Sadly in 2024, other topics make the news, topics that have more to do with agendas and politics, than the actual performance as a game designer / studio.
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They could give GMs back their power to restore items freely, if only for people affected by this very specific issue. It would be a slow and incomplete process, but at least something could be done then besides dismissive canned auto-responses.
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Think of it like that little girl’s closet in the movie Poltergeist.
You open the door, store your stuff and everything is neat, tidy and clean and all is well. Then one day you (much like the little girl) open the door and there is nothing but a big swirling void that sucked everything out of it. 
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I got EXTREMELY lucky. When I came back for Dragonflight, I saw how much space I’d need for profession stuff, and I basically completely liquidated everything pre-Legion, sold it all. And I only ever kept stuff in the guild bank if it was used for more than one profession. So I just had miscellaneous…stuff from previous expansions of little value, along with what I collected during Dragonflight. I did lose some…but not really all that much, and I’d say after the mails (and a mysterious “restoration” where stuff reappeared in my guild banks), I got back maybe 75% of what I did lose. I’m still pretty certain I’m missing stuff like volatile elements from Cataclysm. But I don’t really need it at the moment. So I consider myself “mostly ok”. And if I need any old mats I can go find some (though it’s unlikely I’ll need them).
I feel for anyone who lost a large amount of stuff. I still have no idea why, a week or two ago, stuff reappeared in my guild banks that was definitely gone before. Maybe they thought I was a streamer at first and started, then realized I wasn’t and stopped? LOL.
I have a feeling I would’ve been boned if I hadn’t liquidated everything of value mid-Dragonflight when I returned to the game.
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Where is the incentive to continue playing when you trust that the Guild vault of all things is going to be a safe place for items. Not only did we lose a item. We LOST an ENTIRE VAULT? How is that acceptable with anyone? It is what it is, that is not where we are at. We are paying for a service that is not being rendered. They have no legal justification on not to make this right. Either with free game time, gold value given per tab lost, or something as just saying we cant do anything is just a poor verbiage of saying we dont care.
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I’m just glad I didn’t, say, buy wow tokens with cash, and use the gold to buy stuff, which was then put into these obviously volatile and unreliable storage locations, amd have them get deleted.
That would be/is legit theft IMHO. Of course when you click Accept, you agree to let them stick whatever they want wherever they want in or on your person, so your money spent means nothing except that it is now THEIR money, sucka.
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Simple answer, there is none.
The only recourse is to cancel subs. Feels bad due to time investment, but this event has shown our time investment doesn’t mean 
anyway.
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I mean think of how massive the loss has been across this game? How many hours of game play, time spent, gold spent, effort, grinding, etc. Yet no effort seen at all from Blizz to make things right…
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From trying to comment on those sites, even quite politely, well…the comments don’t end up posted.
I mean, i get how they make their money, but i didnt realize just how far down they have given up even the pretense of reporting anything that includes negatives.
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How can the affected read this & not think this was cause you didnt try as hard as you did for your influencer’s & Early Access owners, thats why they were unaffected. So now the poor folks sry #BaseWarcraft owners get robbed & live with it & with ZERO compensations.
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Sadly there isn’t really such a thing as unbiased news. Everything is tainted by money. Everything.
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FYI, I had early access. This affected us as well.
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That’s exactly what they did. They probably had a dedicated team to restore influencer guild banks silently before they even noticed anything was gone. But they won’t do that for normal players.
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Same, granted I didn’t even get to use it because my vacation time was canceled last minute because several people called in “sick”.
I really love that they locked the thread in the bug report forums. This bug is NOT fixed, I don’t have my items back.
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Shoulda been a streamer I guess, supposedly anyway, as I personally don’t know any, and don’t watch wow footage unless it was to figure out a raid boss.
Be curious to know for 100% sure if favorites have indeed been played.
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I can 99.5% guarantee that they manually restored “important” people’s guild banks.
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