What forces you to play to look into it?
If you cared back then you would have sought out your answer. Coming back years later and complaining isnt going to help.
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Alright but I dont really care about your guys. I want my guys, don’t see why you care so much about my characters.
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Just putting some hope out there!
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You don’t know if it’ll help or not. You’re just afraid it will so you won’t be able to have your weird flex that you still have your characters.
You’ll realize eventually that it doesn’t matter to the ones asking for the service back, matters more to you us not getting them back.
Either way for as long as theres people wanting access to what they’ve already earned these posts won’t stop.
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It’s too late bro you had almost 2 full years to clone. Make a new char
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We have prior threads asking for this and I have no objection to the asking.
I am lazy though and will repost a previous response:
I find it a bit difficult to believe that they purged all the data pertaining to the snapshot taken of characters prior to the TBC pre-patch. But maybe they did really dump that data. I don’t know. It sounds as though even if they had it they are unwilling to take action at this time.
Maybe they are waiting for increased demand so they can monetize it.
LOL @that though as I remember the outcry when they initially introduced cloning with the original fee.
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No domt got the time to invest like i did, I’ll gladly pay a sub just to post asking for my deleted character so I can olay again.
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Oh yeah, in all honesty the time i spent away was putting myself in a really good position in rl albeit forfeiting more of my free time.
Its well worth it for me to pay a good few hundred bucks for each of my characters I want back.
I’m not here to haggle with them like the bums who originally were complainkng about 35 bucks…hell I cant believe WoW is still inly 15 bucks a month after almost 2 decades. If it was 35 bucks a month id still be paying that to login and play for a few hours here and there.
Now even if I buyback my time invested in my characters for 400-500 bucks each it’s still a deal for me. My problem isnt money just time now.
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No I’m just making fun of you for something that is clearly your fault and you feel the need to whine about it publicly. I wish you would have chosen to copy them over the last 2 years. I really do, but you didnt and its no ones fault but your own.
You can always just open a direct line with blizzard via tickets or customer service.
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There was no notice for the ones that werent playing at the time.
Anyway, we all appreciate your continued support. We’ll continue using the channels provided to us.
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News articles and press releases dont require a subscription. There was notice. You just didnt notice lol.
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Pretty terrible notice. They should have emailed people with characters to notify them of the changes. Not force you to actively seek info out.
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Why not just wait for fresh?
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That’s fair. I agree they should just put a lot of stuff on the launcher as well. I dont disagree they should have done better telling people.
I’m just baffled by the fact it was around for soooo long yet people act like they never had a chance. I get it things happen in life but if you didnt do it when it first was announced and then didnt care for over a year… I stop feeling bad for you at that point.
The Character Clone service has been retired. All clones that were not activated before July 26, 2022 were deleted. Customer Service cannot restore deleted clones or transfer active clones to different game versions
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I can see both sides. I cloned to Era day one. I warned all my friends who played but had since quit.
None of them cloned because they thought they were done. Only down the road did they decide they wanted to come back. I still fee bad for them, but I warned them.
Who I really feel bad for are the people who quit before the end times, had no idea about “cloning”, or that the default was to move your character to TBCs ending/WotLK, came back expecting their “forever classic” characters to be around, only to find them force moved to what was basically WotLK. That decision made no sense to me.
Had they:
- Email notified to alert those not playing blizzard games
- Default kept undecided clones on Era
None of this would be a problem. If they had only done one of the two things, there’d be less of a problem.
They did neither. They didn’t inform people who were not actively logging in to the game or forums or following news sites, and they forced moved your Classic forever character to a fleeting expansion pack.
Really poor decision IMO. Not to even get into the fact they forced people to pay to play on both Era and Xpacs.
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I just came back to classic after a year or 2 expecting to be able to clone my warrior and play but no bueno. I would gladly pay 100$ to get my boy back :(. I have been playing retail since and have never seen a thing about them removing it on the launcher. (where 90% of us get our info from on blizz news) This was a mistake by blizzard. I think the longer they were to hold on to them the more people would come back and pay for the service.
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Doing my part and bumping this,
Lost out cloning my characters because of health issues, would love to pick up where I left off!
Please Blizzard!
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It is not an expected behavior to stop playing WoW, and then to come back and find out that your characters were deleted. It sucks big time, and is not something that has ever occurred in all the years of WoW history. It wasn’t something that people were looking into for “answers” because we didn’t know it was a possible outcome. Why would it be? Paid service or not, it doesn’t break the bank to keep wow classic character data around on a server (and if it was significant, then clearly there are enough players to justify whatever costs are associated). This just comes down to ATVI not respecting a player base who plays old IP. It’s not good for shareholder meetings when there is more hype around OLD content than there is around the new.
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Your characters aren’t deleted though. They’re on wrath realms still level 60
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If you’re trying to just play end game vanilla so badly then you might aswell just wait for fresh. Don’t think end game content is going to be too popping on era servers.