If you cancel your sub do you lose your characters?

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or will they still all be there waiting for you if you resub again?

I heard the forums is free anyway so will still be able to post here.

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I think they remain? Idk I’m new to the game.

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They will still be there but you need an active sub to post to the forums.

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They remain.

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oh so I can’t unsub then

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If you unsub I hear Sylvanas takes their souls for the jailer! :ghost:

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So you willing to pay them to post on the forum instead of paying them to play the game?

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I rarely log into the game these days anyway, there’s no point.

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No, your characters will still be there when you re-subscribe.

The forums are a perk of an active account. If you cancel your account, you’re supposed to lose the ability to post on the forums.

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Blizzard will not delete your characters if you cancel your subscription. Your account will go into a frozen state until you reinstate your game subscription OR utilize a game token / Game time card to reactivate your account. I’ve had periods in my life that I had left WoW or circumstance had me deactivate my subscription for a time.

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If you’re not playing the game, what would be the point of maintaining a subscription so you can post here? Facebook’s free, so are any number of 3rd-party WoW sites.

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Because on here I can talk about Sylvanas.

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They never go away, even if you delete them (you can get them restored.)

Blizzard wants you to come back, over and over, one of us, one of us…

Yay! 6 am and I can buy beer now (hate stupid archaic laws here, as well as getting off work at 5:30 AM and food stores being closed when I GO to work, stupid changes as an essential worker…)

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Is talking about Sylvanas worth $15 a month to you?

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Yes it is.

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Poor blizzard and here they thought they had to go to the expense of making a game to have people pay them. They could have just charged for access to the forum.

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Edit: I was wrong. Characters over 50 apparently stay forever.

This is not true. If you delete characters they only stay in the restoration section for a certain amount of days. 90 days I think. Then they’re gone for good.

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Knock yourself out, it’s your money (or possibly Dad’s, I suppose)

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No,some people cancel their sub at times their toons are still there unless they tell blizzard they are quitting.

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If characters are inactive for more than a couple of expansions, they may lose the lock on their name.

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