Do wow characters auto-delete after non use?

[Pha]

and if so how long?

[Waalt]

I've never heard of such a thing and highly doubt it :P If you've randomly lost a character you've probably been hacked

[Pha]

Well i just built a godly computer and was going to play, it has been about 6 months... but i dont see my character on wow heroes

[Vober]

I dont think so. I made a horde shammy on a random server about 2 years ago. Never touched him and he is still there. You might have gotten hacked.

[Vasz]

They dont.

[0smo]

if you freeze your account they will keep data alive for 6-9months (to lazy to look up)
after that, yes your account + chars is gone

[Warod]

They were in the beginning of wow. They removed that before BC if i remember. And they only deleted low levels characters after months of an inactive Account, not an inactive character.

if you freeze your account they will keep data alive for 6-9months (to lazy to look up)
after that, yes your account + chars is gone

This is untrue as i am just back from a 7 month break.

[rabbimojo]

They don't list inactive characters on the armory, last I heard.

[Jartin]

Well i just built a godly computer and was going to play, it has been about 6 months... but i dont see my character on wow heroes

The armory probably just hasn't updated them since you haven't logged into your account for so long. No armory update = no wow-heroes update.

[Warod]

They don't list inactive characters on the armory, last I heard.

True. After about 3-4 months i couldn't see my characters on the armory when i checked on them. (Wanted to make sure i wasn't hacked lol)

[Thryri]

No they don't. Had a lvl 7 on my friends acc back in vanilla, it's still there.

[Abandon]

if you freeze your account they will keep data alive for 6-9months (to lazy to look up)
after that, yes your account + chars is gone

That's completely wrong. Your characters will never be deleted, and neither will your account. The only time a character is permanently deleted is if you delete it yourself, and then after a few months it is purged from the deleted character list. So unless you deleted them before you quit, they are still there.

[Brickwall]

Well i just built a godly computer and was going to play, it has been about 6 months... but i dont see my character on wow heroes

The reason why you can't armory/wowheroes them because after couple of months of inactivity they stop refreshing/keeping data of you characters on official armory (from which pages like wowheroes get data).

Don't worry, your characters are safe.

[Bigsilly]

They don't list inactive characters on the armory, last I heard.

^ and if your armory is inactive, then so is wow-heroes

[Dreadmoore]

they do not delete your characters ever, despite the length of your absence. You could leave for a year and come back and they would all still be there just as you left them.

[citrus]

nope

[Pha]

ty for your informed responses, really not worried now, A+ troll free.

[Bossmonkey]

if you freeze your account they will keep data alive for 6-9months (to lazy to look up)
after that, yes your account + chars is gone

Your stuff is there forever. They never delete your characters.

[jimitva]

Friend stopped playing in vanilla, his chars were still there.

[Vober]

if you freeze your account they will keep data alive for 6-9months (to lazy to look up)
after that, yes your account + chars is gone

Come one guys, You fell for the troll -.-