Can i get a Deleted Character back?

[adamkatt]

I deleted half a million gold once. Was a couple yrs ago and even then it was not a big deal... Dont delete and reroll characters when sleepy, yep thats what i lernt!

[parvo]

Hah! Too funny...

[Ranmaru2]

Actually they probably do still have the character in existence under your personal space on the server just in case they ever need to roll back the servers to a specific date. It would be rather stupid for them not to back up characters and data. You could always call account support and plead your case to them and see what happens: http://www.ddo.com/ddosupport/account-support

[Xioden]

It might be idiot-proof, but it's sure not a secure method. I hope none of you ever run into a situation where your characters are deleted by someone other than yourself. Beware of the malice of thy wife!

[Durion]

DDO used to not even have the "type in character name to confirm deletion" feature, it was added when people were 1 stroke deleting them. I guess they could make it alittle more fool proof, maybe about 50-60 boxes popping up 1 at a time with "Are you sure you want to delete this character you just typed out?" and "Are you absolutly positive?" OP, I'm not poking at you, its the people that want more. they always want more. If Turbine DID institute a feature like Windows Recycle Bin, they'd want another back-up to bring their stuff back when they "emptied the bin." Can someone find me ANY POST where Turbine did anything and nobody complained?

I am sorry you lost your items though, hopefully there wasn't anything that'll be too hard to replace, like a Bloodstone or anything.

[Jay203]

Why oh why should windows have this thing called a recycle bin? For user error. It allows you to get back what you accidentally deleted.

Just because a user makes an error, does not mean they should suffer because of it. People WILL make mistakes, and we should do what we can to help.

didn't you know? the whole thing requiring the player to type in the name of character is acting like the confirmation of EMPTYING RECYCLE BIN, you do it, it's gone

on another note, why oh why does windows give you the option of just instantly delete permanently by holding shift before you press delete?

besides, if they really allow the whole detele-then-bring-back, then what's to stop users from using that to put their character "on hold" to free up a slot and then bringing the old character back? =_=

[Letrii]

It might be idiot-proof, but it's sure not a secure method. I hope none of you ever run into a situation where your characters are deleted by someone other than yourself. Beware of the malice of thy wife!

Never give wife account info or leave game running with an angry spouse around.

[markusthelion]

???...You have to enter the characters name to delete them. How do you delete something like that without meaning to? This makes no sense.

/facepalm

[Uska]

Pretty hard to accidently delete the wrong guy since you have to type the name in and all, now I did accidently delete somone before I checked his bank

[Vanda]

An recovery function would be a great way of freeing space for try out characters, or using mules.

We get a rolling 7 day recycle bin.
I get a 8 free mules and I can 'delete' one each day and then recover the one at the longest period.
I hope I never am gone for too long, but hey, I could just call up and complain for them to extend the retention period.

Mostly unrelated, I have on more than one occasion had to recover mail for people that organize all their mail in their deleted items folder in Exchange....

[rjedi]

Yeah i know really stupid of me but i was sleeply which did not help AT ALL

but i lost a +3 thundering longbow of Puregood, Bloodstone, Lots and lots of Cakes,
Some neat swords that i thouhgt i would never use but was in the action house


But thank i will try the support and see what i can do

[Ganak]

Nope, because they're too lazy to implement a character backup for accidents like so.

Uhhh....totally untrue.

Turbine regularly backs up data any other company hosting solutions on network servers.

A typical, simple situation would be: Backup data is stored at an offsite by a third party. To restore data costs a fee to the third party (say $100 for perspective, could easliy vary to a higher number). Take also Turbine technical staff locating the files and adding them to a production environment (staff time costs pushing into the hundreds of dollars. For offering this as a service, add on support and marketing costs. Furthermore likely a poor return on investment for all the money it would take to setup a service. Keep in mind this is a purposely simple layman's explanation for a scenario likely more complex and expensive to the business that has a responsibility to its employees, investors AND PLAYERS to be profitable in order to stay in business delivering an outstanding game.



OR implement a check and balance system to prevent accidental deletions like we currently have in place (type the character name) and ignore the one-offs. It is OUR responsibility to maintain our characters. We have no one to blame but ourselves if we delete our characters.

[Kromize]

In short Kromize....no. Its pretty darn idiot proof as it is. Next you'll be asking for Turbine to supply us with knee pads so we don't "accidentally" bang our knees against our desk

Just trying to give a little support to those who make such mistakes, and you guys get all stuck-up and talk about how idiot proof it is. Have some mercy for the so called idiots then, cmon.

[Durion]

Yeah i know really stupid of me but i was sleeply which did not help AT ALL

but i lost a +3 thundering longbow of Puregood, Bloodstone, Lots and lots of Cakes,
Some neat swords that i thouhgt i would never use but was in the action house


But thank i will try the support and see what i can do

Wow, I wish I had a bloodstone, especially after only 3 months of play, let alone 3 years.

[Kromize]

OR implement a check and balance system to prevent accidental deletions like we currently have in place (type the character name) and ignore the one-offs. It is OUR responsibility to maintain our characters. We have no one to blame but ourselves if we delete our characters.

What if somebody really hates us, and brute-forces our password, then deletes our characters?

[Sirea]

What if somebody really hates us, and brute-forces our password, then deletes our characters?

Well, just don't make your password something like this.

[adamkatt]

Never give wife account info or leave game running with an angry spouse around.

Ouch!!

[Wizzly_Bear]

Just trying to give a little support to those who make such mistakes, and you guys get all stuck-up and talk about how idiot proof it is. Have some mercy for the so called idiots then, cmon.

No.

What if somebody really hates us, and brute-forces our password, then deletes our characters?

If you're going to play the hypothetical game do it right. Something like...

What if they give us this feature but it causes the world to end as soon as someone uses it?

[rjedi]

Wow, I wish I had a bloodstone, especially after only 3 months of play, let alone 3 years.

A friend of mine that was playing got one and gave it to me and since it min level is 14 ( i think ) i could not use it yet So i gave it to my pack mule

[SINIBYTE]

Ok, I need to know the name of the character...