If we pay $15/mo for access, why is there a cooldown on a service option like undeleting, anyway? Ive never seen a good reason given for this.
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Why are you mass deleting characters that you regret deleting is a better question.
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Whats the reason youre restoring and deleting a character so often? Sounds sketch
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Might have something to do with having an unlimited number of slots essentially if you keep cycling through deleting and undeleting characters for something.
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How could it possibly be sketchy? What is there to even do thats sketchy?
I’ve been trying to shuffle around my classes to figure out who I am re-rolling as allied races so I don’t end up with too many duplicates, but sometimes I change my mind on that. I have a large number of deleted 80+ characters on various servers (which I purged over the years) that I would like to see restored and transferred into one server as well.
@Kirela: How would that even work though? Why would that be “unlimited” if you lowered the timer down to like 5 days instead of 15? That makes no sense. It’s like saying you can still have unlimited slots …every 15 days. It’s not like I am deleting them and restoring them every day… but 15 days? 2 times a month? I feel a lowered timer makes more sense. There’s still no good reason not to lower the timer.
@Snikrot: who said anything about mass deleting? See my above reply.
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Are you going to level an 80+ restored character to 120 more than two times a month? Just restore them as you go?
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I like to play various levels of battlegrounds, so I will eventually get them to 120, yes? Does it even matter if I max them out or not if I want to use them? My overall account slots aren’t anywhere near full. I deleted a bunch of people off moonguard before to reroll on another server, but I find it would be easier to restore the ones I like so that I can keep my reputation gains, BOP items, etc. And now that we have heritage armor, and I don’t have any max level Alliance, I would like to see more than 1 restored to work on and transfer. Still haven’t heard a good reason as to why this is being restricted.
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It is because it isn’t meant to be used as additional storage. While you might have all your slots taken up the continual deletion and undeletion of toons pretty much has the same effect. The wait time is there as a deterrent. It simply isn’t meant to be used in the way that you are using it. Deleting a character is meant to be a permanent thing, Blizzard understands that mistakes happen and implemented a system that allows us to fix those mistakes, however it was never meant as a system to cycle through characters.
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I still haven’t heard a good reason as to why you keep deleting characters that you don’t want to delete.
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It isn’t meant to be permanent or it would be permanent and GM requested restorations would remain a thing.
@snikrot: can you not read? I’ve given a pretty lengthy explanation. Not going to keep repeating myself to justify it to you. Even if you don’t find it to be a “good” reason, 15 days is excessive for people who pay this much for a game this old.
It was always meant to be permanent. Again the restorations are because Blizzard understands that mistakes can be made. You asked why and I gave you the response that Blues have given over on the CSF when this question has come up.
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You deleted characters to reroll on another server, but you say your account isn’t anywhere near the character cap… so they were unnecessary deletions. Just don’t delete characters you might want to play later.
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Originally WoW never had this option for players to restore their own characters. Blizzard’s GM would have to review the case to see if they can be restored so they decided to put the self restore feature for players to use on their own, but with a cooldown to help show some value in your characters. If you plan is to make a character and play them to max just to delete them, then later regretting it and restoring them, that is not really showing much value in your character you are playing so to try and dissuade people from making tons of characters and leveling them up and then delete them and then regretting their choice on that, they put the cooldown in. Also to prevent abusing any kind of possible exploits if some may have find one.
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You have a limited number of character slots, what you’re doing is circumventing that limit. That’s one of the reasons for the restore cooldown.
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Your basically asking for something (whether it’s a server or the GM that has to do the restore) to do extra work because you were indecisive and/or irresponsible. None of this is on Blizz and as Mourningg stated… it’s meant to be a deterrent so you’re not bothering them with a ridiculous amount of requests to restore characters.
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Right and that doesn’t change what I said. If it was meant to be permanent they would have GM exceptions, not a 15 day cooldown regardless of reasons someone wants to restore.
@Khorbyn: How is it unnecessary if I intended not to play on my original server anymore because its dead? I don’t want to play on that server but I want to play those characters. I was going to reroll them but it’s losing a lot to delete and redo them. I don’t know what’s difficult to understand about that.
@Snikrot: No I am literally asking them to do LESS work by allowing for a shorter restoration cooldown? I mean lol, I am telling the guy saying “its meant to be permanent” that this is not correct because they keep these characters in a restore bin forever, so far as I can tell, so I can’t even reroll and re-use my name on the same server anymore because of this lack of permanence.
Diyandiya: Again. I am not at my limit so that has no application to me whatsoever. How am I circumventing my limit if I am not even at the max?
@Hadrimmdar: Blizzard is not intending for restoration to be use for restorations? Kay
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you’re the one not understanding. Blizzard did not intend for the restoration feature to be used that way.
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Wut… you can pay to transfer them, or you can leave them there and recreate them on another server… deleting isn’t necessary if your account isn’t full.
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They used to do that, however to reduce the amount of contacts they get from people that do this kind of stuff, they made it so players can do it themselves without having players have to wait like a day or 2 to get a response from a GM to either say they are going to restore the character or not. So doing this makes it so you have that control.
I don’t know what you want to hear then… what I’m telling you is exactly what the Blues have said when these same threads have been opened in the CSF. It simply isn’t meant to be used the way you are using it. The deletion of a toon is meant to be something that isn’t taken lightly. They don’t want people to delete toons and undelete them. The system is a compromise, as such they put in a cool down for undeletion.
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