14 DAY TRIAL // Videos of people deleting their World of Warcraft characters are about to become much less dramatic, as developer Blizzard Entertainment has revealed plans to add an undelete feature into the massively multiplayer online role-playing game, come Warlords of Draenor.
As World of Warcraft characters usually translate into countless days of game time, deleting a character in a fit of rage (over perceived unbalances in PvP, most likely) or in order to convince yourself that you can quit the game often seems like a good idea, for a couple of minutes at least.
You won't lose your characters forever
Whatever the reason, Blizzard is committed to helping its players reverse the dire consequences of a bad decision that can instantly wipe years of hard work. The feature will be launched in the upcoming Warlords of Draenor expansion, enabling everyone to resurrect deleted characters and bring them into the world of Azeroth once again.
In order to prevent abuse, however, the developer has set up some ground rules: first of all, you can only use the feature once every 30 days, so deleting multiple characters will still bring about a pretty bad time.
There are several other caveats, too. Characters under level 10 are not eligible for undeletion, and those between level 10 and 29 will only be recoverable for 90 days. Furthermore, characters between level 30 and 49 will not be recoverable once 120 days pass, but all other level 50+ characters will be recoverable indefinitely.
How undeletion works
The feature will enable users to bring characters back from the dead in the exact same condition they were upon deletion, complete with whatever achievements, gear, enchantments and bank stash, essentially enabling you to pick up right where you left off.
Additionally, Blizzard will also hang on to the names of the deleted characters for a while, so you might not have to give them a different name upon recovery. You may even use the name of a new character, but be warned that upon restoration, the new character will have to be renamed, transferred or deleted, in order to complete the process.
The feature will be implemented in the upcoming pre-Warlords of Draenor content patch, which, as usual, will introduce some of the changes ahead of time, in order to give players a taste of what's coming and to iron out any kinks in the transition process.
Warlords of Draenor is coming out on November 13, when World of Warcraft will celebrate its tenth anniversary.