What the heck...

[munroebagger1]

So, I recently moved all of my non-ladder items to 2 new accts to retry some character builds, but have not yet permed all of the characters. I have been logging them all on just long enough to reset the counter back to 10 days for the past two weeks. I logged on today to do it again, as I have not been on those characters since the end of last week.

All of the characters on the first acct say they will expire in 6 days, except one, that had the already expired message!!! I know for a fact that he was logged on and should have the same reset date as the others, but I was so pissed I erased him to make room for another char at some point and didn't even want to think about the items he had...

Then I logged onto my other non-ladder acct and yet another single char had the expired message, while all the rest had 3 days left. At this point I got upset and just decided to double-click the character (the choose character button was greyed out as that option is not available to an expired char)and lo-and-behold she entered the realm. I then made a game with her, and exited and her counter has reset back to 10 days!!!

I have already sent an email to Blizzard, with the understanding that even if they do reply, they will probably not do anything about it. I just wanted to see if anyone else has had a similar thing happen. Maybe the exact same thing and they also contacted Blizzard and got their char re-instated (wishful thinking...)

[BigBadBrett]

I have had a similar problem. Emailed Bliz but I could not seem to get my point across. As you do, I had exact dates and so on.
I've never heard of them resurecting a charactor, but good luck.

[theBlackKnight]

Your computer clock is off ^_^ Try updating the time for the time zone you are in, because if your computer clock is off, then the reset message will be off.

[Alywin]

At the early days when 1.10 was just out, I once noticed that, if you only log in and stand in the notice/ channel screen without actually joining a game, even though the expiry date "appears" to be reset to be expiring in 10 days, actually it DOES NOT extend the expiry date. I noticed such thing because, I played in midnight --- Before midnight, it seemed to expire in 10 days, but after midnight (when the expiry date counter works) it just said it would expire in 4 days (following the original expiry timetable neglecting my "superficial" log-in).

So, have you really used your characters to actually JOIN a game?

Frankly, I don't know this rule still applies now (or just because it was a bug experience for me at the early days of 1.10). But hope my experience might be helpful to you.

[Alywin]

Your computer clock is off ^_^ Try updating the time for the time zone you are in, because if your computer clock is off, then the reset message will be off.


By the way, no offence. I just wonder if its clock is off, then logically there should be a universal effect to all characters, but not restricted to one or two characters.... Of couse, I don't know the exact programme mechanism of the timing thing....

[munroebagger1]

Thanks for the advice ya'll. I will wait and see what the mighty Blizz has to say about it, but for some reason (maturity...pshah) I just can't seem to get worked up about it. Can't remember what the poor guy was carrying, and as i have been focusing on ladder for a couple weeks, does it really matter? I do suggest that anyone reading this follows Alywin's lead though and log into a game for a minute or two just to be on the safe side. I will find this thread and repost when I hear back from Blizzard in case there is any info that would be good for the collective...