WoW Will Soon Prevent You From Restoring Deleted Characters

As someone who was there during the early days of World of WarcraftIt’s always surprising how much players can do themselves in terms of services. If we deleted an item or character back in the day, we’d have to contact a Game Master to get the items back. These days, it’s a much more slick affair, with online tools that let players press a few buttons to recreate items from scratch. At least until now, because Blizzard will soon be temporarily disabling the character restoration service.

It’s all about the system. When World of Warcraft: The War Within launches, a brand new war party feature will allow MMORPG players to share their character progression. Transitioning from how the game works now to this new shared system seems like a complicated process, which is why Blizzard is disabling the character restoration service during the transfer.

“In order to prepare all characters for the transition to the new system, which will take place during the pre-expansion content update, we will be temporarily disabling character restoration,” reads a Blizzard post. “For those who would like to restore a previously deleted character, it is recommended that you do so before the pre-expansion content update. Once the pre-expansion content update goes live, character restoration for your World of Warcraft account will be unavailable for a few weeks.”

This means that starting with the launch of the pre-expansion patch and for a few weeks after, it will no longer be possible to use the existing web service to restore characters. Whether or not you will be able to message a game master to recover your character in the event of an accident remains to be seen, but given the company’s past performance, it will be worth a try.

There is no launch date for the pre-expansion patch not yet available, but it looks like it will arrive sometime in July. If you want to know more about this temporary restriction, you can head over to Blizzard’s website for more details.

While you wait for the expansion, why not keep up to date with our guide to the WoW The War Within release date, or spice up your game with our recommendations for the best WoW add-ons you can install.

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