I am being punished for circumventing a system that for 20 years up until very recently was a perfectly acceptable way for shrewd players in the community to change their name of their character.
The way the character undelete function works is as follows.
- Delete character.
- Ask a friend to make a new character.
- Request a character undelete.
- A list of deleted characters shows up with a clickable button to allow an undelete. (At no point does it inform you that attempting to undelete a character with a name recently taken by a friend will cause them to REPEATEDLY get a 24 hour lockout on attempting to undelete the character again.)
There is NO warning where there should be.
There is NO option to request for the original character be deleted.
This is either not working correctly OR this is deliberately designed to punish players who attempt to circumvent this system - which is fine if you’d like to put the company up on a pedestal where it’s not only about making a profit and where they treat their employees correctly. I’m happy with this then…
I believe this absolutely feels like this is sinister on your guys part to not assist me with something I’ve clearly not deserved to experience twice as a punishment for attempting to do something and thinking it was over after 24 hours (For example: “You’ve served your 24 hour lockout, you may now rename your character to whatever”)
I do not believe that this kind of action should be punishable at all.
A simple popup window detailing “Hey, your friend made a character in order to circumvent a character rename. Please delete that character first” would suffice nicely.
And what if in an alternate scenario where my friend was being mean and sinister after I had jokingly deleted my character for example, and they make one to prevent me from playing?
I’m not saying this is the case in this particular scenario but it could definitely happen!
In a case like that would my character just be useless? Unusable?
Please can you assist me with undeleting my warrior manually so that I do not have to sit through another 24 hours without playing.
I don’t even want to rename the character anymore. I just couldn’t afford to pay for the rename in the first place and it was aesthetically displeasing to me.
I would highly appreciate any other assistance from the community with regard to the matter in order to not be forced to wait to play during these new Classic Serve rush hype.
(For the record. It is not Deathwang I want renamed. I like that name :D)
Thanks
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I was the guy who assisted with this. There is no way to directly interact with customer service to get this resolved either. Come on Blizzard! This guy has been buying and playing Blizzard games since Warcraft 2! Please restore his character asap so that he may continue the anniversary experience. The conflicting named character has been deleted my side and therefore there should be no problem now.
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You tried to game the system and failed you deserve being locked out for 24 hours
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I bet your big response made you feel big lel
Too bad I already thought of that and correctly assumed different eh :D?
Blizzard Entertainment also has bright-eyed women commit unalive because their colleagues sexually harass them.
I guess technically they and cosby just gamed the system lol
Thank goodness a multi-million conglomerate has someone who desperately wants to feel right about something equally as unconstitutional as both punishing someone and creating a system that punishes instead of prevents.
I’m certain you’ve put some thought into your reply though.
May you continue to drink the kool-aid
Honestly, the lesson here is don’t try to circumvent or play the system in any way shape or form because there is no human behind Blizzard Customer Support anymore.
Anything slightly weird is up to flag and you then enter automatic loops of bans/lockout with no way to talk to real human.
This of course doesn’t apply to streamers and professional botters who run free without a care despite being mass reported from day 1.
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This is in fact partially the issue I have as well.
I find it unconscionable that Blizzard Entertainment is capable of “NOT EVIL” on a strictly as they damn please basis.
The fact remains that this was neither a punishable offense nor was it reference or even enforced back in the day.
This has now turned into an automatic process in which a player (Who may I remind everyone, pays for this game) and then has to deal with the gall of a game master saying:
“Firstly, I wanted to take a moment to express my heartfelt gratitude for your incredible dedication to WoW. I have noticed that you have been playing for years, and that is truly an amazing feat. We are honored to have such a dedicated player as yourself. Furthermore, we recognize the time, effort, and passion you have put into the game over the years, and we cannot thank you enough. 
”
This is borderline sadist stuff.
This system would have worked EXACTLY the same without ANY staff interaction by simply greying out the option to rename until the character on the friends account is deleted.
Instead this is instead a punishment with no value chalked onto Blizzard’s profits for the effort.
That’s my problem.
My problem is that them saying “Sorry but this system is working correctly” is effectively an admission of sadist behavior.
This is the equivalent of putting a plate of hot food in front of a dog and then brutally kicking them when they go to eat it instead of just leaving the food on the table where it belongs until you want the dog to eat it. It’s basically entrapment with extra steps.
A simple message saying “Hey. Please don’t try to circumvent buying a character rename” works just as well
No further questions, your Honor. My client pleads guilty and agrees that any punishment is deserved… 
Seriously, you knew it wasn´t ok before you started, decided to do it anyway, and are now searching for anyone to blame that is not yourself.
Your choice of usename, while mildly humorous, also merely underscores your explicit intent to unnecesarily provoke and skirt rules “because you think you can”.
I have a million words to desribe this sort of behavior, but none of them are usable on these forums or in-game…
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I’ll take that humble pie now thanks.
"Warm Greetings playename**,
[Good day ! Here is GM gmname** at your service : )
I appreciate your patience while waiting for a reply! I hope that this message reaches you in good spirits.
I’m sorry to hear that you’ve encountered the problem that you’re unable to restore the deleted Lv.29 Warrior “charname**” due to the cooldown time has triggered instead of restoring the deleted character.
We’ve received some report from fan about this issue, it isn’t working as intended which the team are working towards the fixes as quick as possible. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience caused. "]
My character was just undeleted.
Despite being told it couldn’t possibly be done.
Please let this be a lesson in the future of blaming someone for something that might just be considered an unfair punishment
I call Fake news
Blizzard GMs have both templates in proper english and a functioning spell-correct utility, and also generally do not use smilies in their communication, but I was willing to give you the benefit of the doubt until this line.
Proof or it didn´t happen.
Sorry, but some of us are just not 15 anymore and can smell juvenile bull 
a mile away, because there´s always some kid who thinks he´s the first to invent the wheel, but we´ve already seen it all 
Please let this be a lesson in not making dumb up just because you want to be right and think nobody will notice 
lmao alright fam if that’s what you think you’re absolutely most welcome to believe it.
Though my issue is resolved and those feces-talkers were wrong. And whether you believe it or not is irrelevant since I got to continue playing my warrior. And I was right.
You’re welcome to fabricate whatever system of believe you want. But a GM responded to me and I was right 
Kinda unfair to be punished for this, there’s not even a paid option to change your name on Classic Era. They sell one for Cataclysm “Classic” and Retail but not for Era, SoD or Anniversary.
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This entire post makes no sense. That simply isn’t possible anymore, your name is reserved for about 3 months when you delete that character, your friend can’t reserve that name. I’m glad you got it sorted out but I’m pretty sure this system circumvent stopped working many years ago.
Actually they do. Recently had a ticket with some weird smilies in them.
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I don’t know why I’d lie about GM-Reply clout in the first place.
I simply omitted my name, character’s name and GM’s name for the sake of privacy. The previous post he made to me also had grammatical errors but I don’t think that’s wildly unbelievable.
In any case. Probably shouldn’t necro the thread but I thought the guy so vehemently believed his own side of the story it almost became political.
Thanks for the confirmation about GM emojis
all things considered, that’s a pretty smart way to name change for free
ofc they stomp it out as soon as they sniffed it tho, because they prefer if you pay xx€ to simply change a string in their database
Yes it is … or at least should be. Blizz says: Other players on your realm will be unable to use your previous name for 90 days. (source https://eu.battle.net/support/en/article/12005 - about name changing … but I remember reading that the same went for delete - somewhere else I found 30 days for deleted characters). On your own account you have no such limitations, but also you canntot undelete the first without either deleting or renaming the second.
He never told us the level of the toon or his timeline either; so maybe he was above level 50, and waited over 90 days … but from the post it sounds like it happened in a day or so on the Anniversary servers. Then it’s impossible unless Blizz botched something
Also the time between undeletes are 7 days, not 24 hours.
Read about the name reservation system in this articlee from Blizz - It’s for all versions. … it implicitly says this method is OK (You may be asked to rename your character at no cost if its name was taken by another player on your realm), but only at levels over 50 is the name reservation period of 90 days shorter than the undelete timer.
Obviously not on Era (Classic) servers! Those articles, even though they talk of WoW Classic too, does only seem to work for Retail and maybe Cata.
Because I just tested. And was able to do the same - I deleted level 23, friend rolled new of that name, I tried to undelete - and it did reproduce this exach error on the Era servers, including the 24 hours wait.
EDIT
My guess is that this is some sort of residue aka. bug from when they did something to prevent re-naming this exact way somewhere in TBC Classic.
I remember helping guildies change names this way, and then one day, we could not any more.
If your character is over lvl 30 when doing The rename trick you’ll get timer
Nope, mine was 23. I got same error and timer as OP.
Now come on man.
You called me so many mean things and then you delete your reply post?
I guess I’m also not the only one with this issue. Clearly.
And clearly this isn’t as heinous a problem that you originally thought.
Don’t you think it would be big of you to man up and admit that you overreacted? And that clearly my GM response post was clearly legitimate.
If you really want I could ask a GM in game to reply to this forum just to confirm that what I had posted before was in fact truly the case.
Maybe instead of acting like a completely negative degenerate on forums you offer up some genuinely helpful advice. Hence the existence of forums such as these.
So what’s going on?
If you delete a character, friend takes your name, you won’t be able to recover the character for 24-48 hours?
What used to be before is that the name gets binded to your account for 30 days if your character is lvl30 or above. I wonder if they changed it to lvl25. Anyone tried deleting a lvl25-29?