What can be worse than a bank being plundered by thieves? It’s when that vault is robbed by the very game code that’s supposed to defend it with its life.
World of Warcraft’s guild banks apparently aren’t quite the secure institution they were made out to be. Blizzard admits that shortly after The War Within’s release, some items began disappearing from guild banks thanks to “an unexpected bug” stemming from a cross-realms guild technical update. The studio said that it tried to restore items over the past few weeks, but not all could be retrieved.
“For the last few weeks, we’ve been packing up the missing items that we’re able to identify as lost by this process, and we will soon mail those to the guild leader character for each affected guild,” Blizzard posted. “Due to how some of the data was lost, we’ve reached a point where the result will be an incomplete restoration for some guilds, and we do not have a way to restore the remaining missing items for them.”
Players on Reddit are pretty upset about it, understandably; the situation has already dragged on over a month already with little communication, and now some players and groups are finding out their stuff is just gone forever with seemingly no compensation. People are reporting missing huge numbers of items worth millions of gold – in some cases, everything from their guild banks – including old rare items. Other players still claim to be missing things like reputation and characters.
“Well that’s one way to combat inflation,” one player quipped. Yikes.
