Who made the executive decision to delete characters on an mmo made by one the biggest game companies, soon to be owned by microsoft itself. How does that makes sense at all? To me, it doesn’t. Losing a great portion of customers… because uhhh, they wanted them gone?
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Imagine if cloning was never offered. For example Season of Mastery didn’t offer cloning, you could only transfer to either Era or Wrath, not both.
It does not make sense to you because you think the characters were deleted. They were not. The server they were on transitioned to TBC (along with everything on it). This was a natural progression, same as it was in 2007.
The era servers you see today are not the same servers you played era on in 2019. They were newly created when TBC released, so that players could clone their characters on them, should they choose to do so.
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So we reached the second stage.
Im looking forward to reading posts when they reach the bargaining stage.
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Currently most are still on Denial. Even though it’s been 8-9 months.
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Who made the decision to not clone his character while it was available?
YOU! Good job Einstein, now live with your decision and get leveling.
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Yawn… Another one.
I see most of you are still in denial, like mentioned above. While I have some regrets for not cloning my characters (I genuinely thought Era was permanently dead), I have accepted that this is where I am and I’m currently leveling. Level 55 now!
Oh, and it’s good fun. Try it, OP. You won’t get the cloning service back because there is literally nothing to clone.
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Try telling that to Líínk. They are still in the first stage too. Even though I have given them proof.
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The data exists. There is always a way to recover data even if those are deleted, the same way that police can recover data to reveal malicious or illegal activities. It comes down to the company’s decision making and how they value that decision.
If the cost of implementing the existing technology to recover the data worth it and can provide profit then there is a chance that they will consider it. It is a popular demand nontheless.
I luckily managed to clone my characters back then but sadly my friends and guildies did not receive any e-mail about the dead line so now some of them are leveling a new one normaly or by buying boosts (there are hundreds of boosters in era) or waiting for a fresh seasonal server.
Well, we the og’s that stayed in era from day 1 and supported it when it was deserted, we hope that you guys manage to find a solution asap. Looking forward to have all the old friends back.
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Popular? I see the same 6 people talking about it.
The data is permanently gone, accept it and move on. Blizzard have said it is gone and they only keep backups for a few months, the item restore system proves that. Data recovery only works if the data isn’t overwritten.
The only thing I see Blizzard doing wrong is not sending out any emails about it. But if you were active during this time you would have seen that it was available.
The only other thing I could they they could have done was to activate the characters in both versions but that would have those who paid for the service up in arms about it.
The Classic Era version of the character will be permanently deleted and unavailable for cloning.
imagine believing that lost data can’t be recovered in 2023.
- laughs in police investigating economical crimes 
imagine judging the popularity of an wow topic from wow eu forum posts and ignoring the serious platforms. Hillarious.
Well, was a good laugh. But in a serious note i believe that we need to encourage players to return to Era instead of claiming uneducated arguments like “data is lost” in 2023.
Data was supposed to be lost for original vanilla due to blizzard gifting a the server that contained the said data to a charity. But here we are again after ignorant "wall of no"s and unknowledgeable forum doomers.
tldr: its 2023. You can recover every deleted data as long as there is demand for it and profit from it. Anything else is lack of tech knowledge.
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All we established was that you don’t know how proof works
As I said, if it’s overwritten then it’s gone. If something else is over the sectors then it’s unrecoverable. You think they don’t reuse disk drives? Surely they also do a full wipe of them before reuse.
We didn’t say lost we said DELETED, on purpose.
The data wasn’t lost for Classic, it was on every disc ever sold for classic. They said they didn’t have the server side programs.
Yes, your lack of knowledge.
You mean Proof that Blizzard said the data is deleted and you just ignoring that? I gave that proof multiple times.
Both of you are just going against all the available evidence. Just show me one piece of evidence to show that Blizzard still have the data, just one piece from an official Blizzard post and I will concede your point. If you cannot then you need to concede mine.
Would it be nice if they offered it again? Yes.
Are they going to offer it again? We don’t know.
They said they were going to permanently delete the classic era characters that weren’t cloned. If they did or they didn’t nobody knows.
So, go level meanwhile and clone if they offer it again.
I would say 99.99% no.
That’s the best thing to do in my opinion.
I was not aware of this deadline.
My main interest has always been Classic Era, I did not clone my characters because I was under the impression old servers were basically dead.
Now that I know I can return to an active game I missed a “deadline” so I cant play… and hostile people saying “we should have known better”.
I hope that blizzard values players here, and returns this service to people who have supported this game for years.
I played wow since 2004… and this is something blizzard never did in the past as far as I know… allow us to recuperate our chars.
Thanks.
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So you waited for someone else to revive the dead servers. Best thing you could do for a dead server is to go play on it. If enough people do the same, it won’t be dead anymore.
But if everyone waits for someone else to go there first, it will remain dead.
So you left Era to die but now when others brought it back to life you want an unavailable service to be brought back. Sorry no sympathy here.
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Exactly.
These people bet on the wrong horse, mocked folks for keeping their characters on the “dead” era servers and now blindly follow where their streamers point them.
Of course that kind of crowd will never accept their own error.
Hilarious!
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They didn’t delete your characters though. They deleted the optional clone you refused to purchase.
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Imagine believing that you can overwrite and delete any data and not being able to recover them in 2023. Living in a cave confirmed.
Another day of laughs.
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