Return the Clone Service MEGATHREAD

[Upright-ashbringer]

@Mainman-boulderfist

You sure are a strong internet warrior, keep it up!

a strong internet warrior with foresight!

[Valanel-silvermoon]

They could have activated their character(s) on Era for free. But no they wanted a new continent, a new race, a new class and thought it would be more fun.

[Dottie-thunderhorn (Dottie)]

They did have the whole of TBC to choose to be on Era, TBC or pay to be on both.

Now Era is busy again they want what they can’t have and didn’t do when they had the chance.

[Thalissa-dragonfang]

I wanted then, but I wanted not pay greedy Blizz to have it. I only move ONE character to TBC-C … I regret long ago - when we get Wrath-C on last, easymode patch. Wrath-C so not fun. He still not max level in Wrath-C.
I like my one character bach - and now I even want pay for him. Sigh.

[Dottie-thunderhorn (Dottie)]

I know a lot of people want that but unfortunately the data is gone and cannot be brought back.

I think Blizzard would have brought it back if they could as they love making money.

I am not saying I don’t want it to come back but believe Blizzard when they say they permanently deleted it. I also think it will be far too difficult to copy the data back from wrath, even for those who never touched the character in wrath or TBC.

[Upright-ashbringer]

@Valanel-silvermoon

They could have activated their character(s) on Era for free. But no they wanted a new continent, a new race, a new class and thought it would be more fun

TBC had already killed WoW in the past. Obviously it would do so again.

And yes, for choosing TBC over Classic they now dont have their characters. Sweet justice.

You should be punished for choosing the falsely so called expansions over beautiful Classic. Get it in your heads, the expansions never expanded upon the games. They only did damage.

[Thalissa-dragonfang]

I still think they waiting. Maybe until announce Cata, as they know many Classic fans not like Cata. Then say something like: “While prepare Cata we found old clones. Ta-daa. Now new service to clone for 10 €. Happy to listen to our customers.”

[Nuniel-mograine]

Same here. Please bring back the cloning service. I am willing to pay money for that.

I came back after a long break partly due to a health condition and basically everything I had in WoW classic is gone.

I am devastated.

Why did you purge my Classic Characters?

Hello, after reading recent reports of people having the same complaint, I felt encouraged to be heard as well. So here’s my story. I’m a returning WoW Classic Player. Or so I thought. After a Long break due to a health condition, I logged back into my Live - World of Warcraft Classic Account, only to find out, that all my characters were moved to Live - World of Warcraft Wotlk and everything I had on Live - World of Warcraft Classic has been deleted. Strange enough, but they were also random…

[Dottie-thunderhorn (Dottie)]

Maybe you should have paid when it was available?

Sickness doesn’t mean you can’t check up on the game occasionally. Believe me, I’ve been quite ill sometimes but I can still look at forums and the news section.

[Valanel-silvermoon]

Yes when you are sick you have even more time to check forums, log in the game because you don’t work, are stuck in bed.

[Nuniel-mograine]

@Dottie-thunderhorn

Maybe you should have paid when it was available?

Sickness doesn’t mean you can’t check up on the game occasionally. Believe me, I’ve been quite ill sometimes but I can still look at forums and the news section.

I don’t deep-dive into news on games I didn’t play for months. Imagine that.

I did know about the cloning service. But the fine print conditions are not something I did careful research on because it made no sense in the first place to just lose my stuff if I don’t act on them.

[Dottie-thunderhorn (Dottie)]

@Nuniel-mograine

I don’t deep-dive into news on games I didn’t play for months.

It’s not a deep dive, it’s two minutes reading the news titles.

There was over 14 months to clone and near the end the price dropped by 75%. This was featured in the news section.

[Nuniel-mograine]

@Dottie-thunderhorn

It’s not a deep dive, it’s two minutes reading the news titles.

There was over 14 months to clone and near the end the price dropped by 75%. This was featured in the news section.

Again, if I would have known that my classic characters will be deleted, I would have acted. It’s not like I only care now.

[Dottie-thunderhorn (Dottie)]

They are not deleted. They moved on. Personally I don’t think you cared until Era became popular.

[Nuniel-mograine]

@Dottie-thunderhorn

They are not deleted. They moved on. Personally I don’t think you cared until Era became popular.

What’s even your point? I had to put in a break and until 2 days ago I indeed was super happy that things in classic are once again gaining steam to give it a try once again. That’s what I care about: reconnecting with my buddies and continue playing while it’s hot.

[Nerz-transcendence]

@Dottie-thunderhorn

unfortunately the data is gone and cannot be brought back.

The same way as the classic client was gone? Why would they delete the data. Yeah, it would probably take a lot of work to restore those backups (I’m quite sure they still have somewhere), but ppl are willing to pay a lot of money.

We missed the deadline, because we didn’t keep up with the news about a game we didn’t play at the time. Yes it’s our fault. I still think it was a bad call from Blizzard to disable cloning.

[Nuniel-mograine]

@Nerz-transcendence

We missed the deadline, because we didn’t keep up with the news about a game we didn’t play at the time. Yes it’s our fault. I still think it was a bad call from Blizzard to disable cloning.

Thank you.

[Dottie-thunderhorn (Dottie)]

@Nerz-transcendence

The same way as the classic client was gone? Why would they delete the data.

Yes, it was gone, they remade it using the Legion server software.

They deleted the data, just accept it. There are no backup from over a year ago.

[Valanel-silvermoon]

This is a live service game, you cannot just load a “save game” from years ago as if it was a single player game.

[Nuniel-mograine]

@Valanel-silvermoon

This is a live service game, you cannot just load a “save game” from years ago as if it was a single player game.

Of course you can, if it’s not deleted.

That is the whole point of this petition.

I can even log into my retail account from like… double digit years ago and still continue playing because I never deleted those characters. But not with the original classic mode, apparently, although I never deleted those characters. And the only thing that caused that issue was not paying ransom money some time ago.