Hello there again!!
Still my guild mebers or me didnt get any single matterial back from the whole guild bank items lost…
big gratz to that company that respect the persons who give them food to eat and pay their salary…
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Everything has disappeared except for the gold. As of now, I have gotten 0 (zero) items back.
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I’m starting to suspect a bigger problem 
… missing items here, lost reputation there, disappearing collected transmogs, currency vanishing during transfers, or gold going missing when trying to retrieve it from the warbank. Problems with the auction house…
It sounds like the databases are breaking apart slowly, bit by bit. 
And what we see in the forums is only the tip of the iceberg. Only those who noticed a loss, cared enough about it, and reported it… 
How would you even know if an old transmog appearance you don’t care much about disappeared from your collection?
And if you know, would you bother to report it? 
Who actually notices the loss of something like old reputation, or other minor data?
Or will notice if some items are gone, when they come back after 6 month or more?
I’m starting to feel terrified that something is ‘eating’ away at the data in the background… or something like this… 
Yeah, I’m probably just imagining things and overthinking it, being too negative. 
Maybe i’ve got some “trust issues”… reason unknown … 
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Reduce Quality Assurance.
Reduce Customer Service.
Lay off experienced developers that actually know the game.
Use cheap offshore developers and AI to maintain and enhance your game.
What could possibly go wrong?
Unfortunately this goes for a lot more companies than only Blizzard.
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I don’t think you’re overstating it. I don’t think it’s necessarily something eating away at their (our) data though, I think it’s more likely that it’s an old system, with old foundations, that has never been properly underpinned or reinforced, and they’re just building more and more on top of it, adding weight and complexity whilst, simultaneously, cutting down on the number and/or quality of staff who might have been able to do something about it.
The main question really is … do they have the time, money and ability to actually get in there and do some proper core fixes, or is it all going to collapse? Personally I no longer have the trust I once had in Blizzard and feel that, at any moment, it might go critical and then offline for a considerable length of time/forever - so I’m no longer investing the time or, more importantly for Blizzard, money, that I once did.
Hopefully they’ve got a team in the background somewhere working on WoW 2.0.
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Re : WoW 2.0 - I really do feel they may have a team working on WoW 2.0.
Gilded brutosaurs aside, the reality is that the gold sinks exceed the ‘gold gain’ with the recent changes (hugely reduced gold generated from actually playing the game). And Bran ‘found a bit a gold, gee thanks 2g). Repair costs and transmog through the roof. People can make gold on AH but that is just transferring money between players (minus AH cut each time).
Looking at bug report threads in US forums, tickets for all kinds of losses are being responded to with ‘Yes, absolutely we see that you have the achievement, but the mount has gone from your list of mounts. Unfortunately we can’t make changes, but please post in the bugs forum so the developers can fix it.’. Similar responses for data losses across all aspects of the game. (as if the devs have time to hand-fix bugs on a per player basis).
The few devs left must be in a horrible work environment. GMs (well GM1.0) barely exist, and CS here are left to ‘pick up the pieces’.
I thought they were planning to monetize WoW further (mandatory token purchases if you cant afford to repair gear). This in-game economic collapse will be accelerated by the lost gold from the Guild Bank deletions (interestingly, our guild leader got a full 100% wipe of guild bank, 0% restoration, and, as a bonus, a FULL 100% personal bank wipe too!). They weren’t hacked either. The gold in the AH remained, their other chars weren’t touched etc.
With the ongoing losses in pretty much ALL ‘state’ information, and with a seemingly new policy of ‘tough luck’ to those losing achievements, honour, mounts, currency, reputations, this game’s future isn’t looking bright.
Overwatch 2. Overwatch 1, just heavily monetized to fit in with today’s ‘macrotransactioms’. It is so sad to see WoW going this way.
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I’m in the process of reading the book “Play Nice” (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Play-Nice-Future-Blizzard-Entertainment/dp/1538725428 ) and that’s quite an eye opener. Although I’ve not finished it yet, it clearly shows the slippery slope Blizzard have been on for a good long while.
I also recently watched a comedy series on Apple TV called Mythic Quest (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythic_Quest ) which also felt like it had some basis in what is/has happened at Blizzard (especially relating to monetisation).
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Kurn had another video, its a short one explaining this issue well.
Go ahead and share this with your friends, communities you joined and sites you post on.
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Just watched that and was coming here to post … very well done video.
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I don’t need to add anything, it is already being said.
That was just a tiny search, there are hundreds.
What we need to do is make as many posts as possible, contact as many journalist outlets as possible (IGN, PCGamer, PCMag, Metacritic) and blanket as much social media with the crimes committed by Blizzard (Microsoft) which for some reason is going wildly unnoticed. If you think my use of the term criminal is laughable or too strong, watch the video attached to see what kind of thing has been stolen first.
In this beautiful summary:
They have lost a lot of subs over this, but I believe they should be held accountable and make recompense for a change. So use your voice.
Gotta be worth a shot.
Peace
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let’s be honest. Nothing important was lost. Few people overreacting over few lost material stacks.
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Get a life.
It’s just virtual items.
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I hope this will teach a very important lesson about backing up your data before doing a deployment.
I’m not so sure about that. If you could turn the lost items for their in-game gold value (vendor/AH) and you could buy tokens with said gold, it turns more or less other than just virtual items.
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Haters/Blizz employees were always going to be first, I wish you long life and happiness in all you do.
Please do keep feeding the algorithm though, its what is needed. Thank you.
Read TOS, you are not owner of you character let alone other things.
Which in itself should be a cause for some alarm, but it isn’t, because we all just play the game and assume things are going to be fine, and if disaster strikes, then Blizzard will fix things and help us out, because they’re a nice company and we’re nice customers.
But then something like this happens and the reality comes crashing down and suddenly there’s a realization that one’s consumer rights are pretty terrible and that Blizzard aren’t your good friend who’ll help you out in a jolly!
And then you remember that some years ago some players had all their professions wiped out completely and nothing happened with that either, and there was the time when people wanted to refund StarCraft II and had to take Blizzard to court over it, and the other time when…
So maybe we should be a little more outspoken, upset, and critical about the fact that Blizzard gets to screw us over as much as they do as far what we’re actually paying for is concerned…
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Few hundred? More a few thousand 
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Under the terms of the Eula blizzard/microsoft is resposible for our banks sequrity . blizzard/microsoft breached the sequrity with their own bugged software , they have admitted this in several posts on this forum so that now the onus is on them to put things right with each and every guild who’s bank has been effected by this major whoopsie on their part , it just shows how bad the corruption is in this game now when they allow botts to reign suppreme in the isle of dorn and scammers making millions of gold pieces on the auction house , i say shame on you blizzard / microsoft you have shown your true colors over this situation all you are interested in are dollar bills from our subs .
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To clarify, I tried to increase visibility by putting this post into the main forums. It was deleted and repackaged here by Blizzard.
Hence why this seems out of place, it is.
Sorry about that, but not my doing.
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