I'll pay $500 to bring my Era clone back from your archived data. Ball's in your court, Blizz!

[Zipzo-fairbanks]

Wasn’t around when they were offering it, otherwise I would have! Didnt even know about it!

[Asma-mankrik]

@Eyr-whitemane

there is no archived data. it’s GONE.

Why then with the update last Tuesday for Era did some players report that uncloned characters were showing up with the “restore” option? Which they were able to utilize.

@Kynsa-mankrik

As for the cloning, here is what I saw

Of my 8 original Classic chars, 2 of them were showing up under area to “undelete” along with my one of my deleted HC chars. I picked one at random and restored it and it does appear to have all its items. Unfortunately if I could clone/bring back a character I would have chosen one of the ones that wasn’t there.

Some things I no clue about:

1. If the closing and restore deleted functionality is the same
2. Why some characters are there and not others (2 out of 8)

From this perspective, Blizzards answer of the data is missing/gone, might actually be the truth for a lot of the characters, and its difficult to say why some might exist and if they show up for other people.

@Khufu-mankrik

I had about 5 toons and none of them were 60, I deleted all but 2 (Priest 54 and Druid 50) before that I took the option to move all my toons to TB and eventually to Wrath. When I tried Classic again a few months ago I clicked the “Restore Deleted Char” and tried to restore these 2 toons but it said that the shop was unavailable. After Googleing this I found that because I quit in TB I never saw the pay to keep your clones so I was upset that the services was not available.

Fast forward to today, when I started wow a cinematic started playing which I canceled. As soon as my char screen came up at the bottom of the active characters I am playing was my 54 priest. I thought it was a joke but I was able to log in and reset his talents. Keep in mind I didn’t even go into restore for this toon he just showed up, however when I did go to restore there was my druid who I just clicked restore and there was listed in my active char list and again I was able to log in and all his stuff was still there.

Just a couple of examples. Looks like at least “some” of the data was archived.

[Eyr-whitemane]

sounds like a bunch of hooey to me

[Asma-mankrik]

@Eyr-whitemane

a bunch of hooey

I don’t expect that you or any player would be able to accurately address this.
I’ve asked that Blizzard do so but … they’re busy.

[Jcs-sulfuras]

@Zipzo-fairbanks

$500

This pays for about 3 minutes of crew service on a single yacht.

You’re not going to convince Blizz with pennies.

[Zipzo-fairbanks]

Well who says I have to fund the entire endeavor top to bottom! Yacht trips are certainly expensive but server transfers are still only $25 lol

[Realbarth-whitemane]

Whales be out there transferring 40 characters between servers

[Aamon-arugal]

Can I have your money instead and actually put it to good use?

[Zaalg-ashkandi]

The characters are gone.

[Rombell-grobbulus]

That’s not any more useful that posting here lol.

[Arcyon-remulos]

You are talking to a wall, most of their mods given the boot. There are more mods in private wow servers than in live servers.

[Frostihunter-whitemane]

Just dont know why they deleted the data. Surely there’s far, far more characters on retail sitting there that havent been logged into for a decade plus… classic era characters could’ve sat there forever…

[Wonderdruid-whitemane]

I support this. Bring back the clones.

[Vandene-tichondrius]

This is how you know the incompetence knows no bounds. Simps keep saying “but the characters cost money to take up space hurdur” but they could have made the money back by people realizing they want an Era clone. What kind of ninny just deletes data.

[Kerokupo-pagle]

terrible idea. rewarding blizz for abusing you

[Krazinski-shadowsong]

@Vandene-tichondrius

Simps keep saying “but the characters cost money to take up space hurdur” but they could have made the money back by people realizing they want an Era clone.

Blizzard would have had to have known a year ago that Classic Era would explode in popularity.

[Nelthene-icecrown (Nelthene)]

Wouldn’t it be a lot cheaper to just pay someone to create the character anew?

[Tubbly-terenas (Tubbly)]

@Deunan-atiesh

Do you not have email accounts?

There was no email regarding the system shutdown, only to advertise the service to begin with. There was no reasonable expectation that Blizzard would have discontinued this service based on all of the other service lifetimes that are offered. Anybody who wasn’t an active subscriber and paying attention to forum announcements could have easily missed that this service was shutting down.

This is Blizzard’s mistake. They created a service that did not need to be created, they should have just let people clone for free. Then they arbitrarily shut down that service for no reason either. They could have just left it there for players to use as they wished.

[Tubbly-terenas (Tubbly)]

@Zipzo-fairbanks

Don’t leave money on the table Blizz!

Please stop.

Blizzard should not have done what they did. What they did was wrong and now you’re offering to throw money at them, rewarding their error?

And people wonder why this game is plagued with bots and gold buying

[Ruenann-remulos]

My guildies restored multiple lvl 60’s, it very much happened. We couldn’t figure out the trigger as some people who did the exact same steps (husband and wife duo) had different restore capabilities. There was a blip somewhere that caused some char copies to be saved, but not all of them.