Remove the One time character restore rule!

[Masekase_Hurricane]

The connection is this, Why pay for a character to get 50+ if you had one and deleted it, Why not just allow a restore of that character instead of telling people to go buy a jump potion.

Waste of resources and pointless I would rather they fix important things. If you want to delete your character more than once then more fool you. I left game for a year and a half took game off computer never touched it.

If you actually cared about the cost of it why would you delete it? Also you keep comparing to 11 which is silly, FFXI only allowed it once the player-base dropped as they probably had more room to back up. Also I can say for a fact it wasn't 3-4 years in, as a friend tried to come back two years after wow came out in 2004 and they couldn't restore their character.

Also direct from 11 site
http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/crs/

* We cannot guarantee that the character you would like to reactivate can be restored.
* In the case that restorable character data does not exist, it will not be possible to reactive the character.
* Even if you are eligible for this service, there may be rare cases in which character reactivation is not possible.

[Bloody]

I really don't think people in this thread understand what bigoted means....

Also, being a LALALA person is not having a discussion, OP. It's called willful ignorance. Blindly believing your idea is superior to a contrary argument despite severe discrepancies in logic and evidence, while repeating only the same few points, is not participating in discussion.

Edit: Also, you can edit posts to include additional thoughts instead of chain posting.

Also, if you want to be more credible, try addressing some of the points brought up with counterpoints. It might help. Might.

[Neri]

One of the your post stated that you did no such thing as deleting your character. And now another post of yours said, yes you did delete your character...

I think you should just calm down and think what you are trying to post here.

[UltimateAoe2]

They don't go threw the trash for a character, The data is tied to the SE ID till its deleted by SE them selfs all they do is match details to what your requesting restore and whats closest on the id file.

You really don't know how game data is handled, do you? Once deleted, data can be kept for a small time frame. After that, its scattered. MERELY impossible to restore after that.

To contribute:

If you think about deleting your character because you just want to escape an abusive group or relationship, you have far more problems than that.
Personal experience, I've been harassed and such. Been out of a bad relationship. Learn to cope in other methods than deleting your character for no reason.

How you derailed this thread to a jump potion thread is beyond me. Gather your words before posting.


And for the love of god, use the edit/quote function correctly.

[Felis]

I realize companies do things differently, however even WOW has a character restore client side, you do not even need to bother with a ticket.

Client side? That sound like open to exploits.

[Seig345]

I'm not sure that the Far Eastern dress and the jump potions are good analogs to your request regarding the Character Restore policy... Both of these items had already been designed and implemented into the game, it only required a few switches to make the dress available in our version, and will be just as simple when they add the jump potions too.

Asking for character restores to be unlimited would require more dedicated hardware that is not currently implemented. The cost for that hardware would be far higher than it was/will be to simply add something they've already created and designed to a separate version of the game. Hand-holding what few people who repeatedly delete their characters and then regret it (sorta sounds like repeating the same action while expecting a different result, to me) is unlikely to drive the kind of numbers to motivate them to make such a large investment. On top of that; whatever emotional reasoning people would have for deleting their character would become utterly pointless with such a change. You wouldn't be really deleting anything, you'd just be 'hiding' the character from the Character Select screen.

The jump potions don't rationalize investing in additional hardware to change the restore policy. Without the jump potions, the "repeat-deleters" that would come back if they could have their characters back, only for the data to be lost before they changed their mind, would not have returned anyway. The jump potions at least gives them an option, some of which will inevitably take the option, leading some to return to Eorzea where otherwise they would have not.