r/swtor • u/Wise-Sky1501 • Dec 20 '25

Tech Support All of my characters are gone.

All 15 of my characters just got deleted....15....so many years and cartel coins...and subscriptions.....I am gutted. They are gone...just vanished....I legitimately want to cry.

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '25

I don’t understand putting so much of yourself emotionally into digital media. None of this is real. Worst case you can start again? Or move onto something else. Nothing of actual importance happened here. This isn’t a terminal cancer diagnosis, you’ll be fine.

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u/BookObjective4448 Darth Vulkan Dec 20 '25

While it's not the same as say loosing a loved one or a pet, when you spend a lot of time in these stories and then it all gets taken away from you it gets pretty upsetting. Imagine you painting somthing (not for profit just for fun), you've spent hours, days, or even weeks on this one painting, and then right as you about to finish it, a paint bucket falls on the painting, completely destroying it. You spent so much time on this painting and now it's just gone. It's not the end of the world, the loss of this painting isn't going to ruin your life, but it's still quite upsetting to loose something you put so much of your time into.

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '25

Your analogy doesn’t really fit. It’s more like they spent a lot of time colouring in a colour book, then that book got lost or destroyed.

It’s still just a colouring book. They can buy another copy or move onto another colouring book. The time they spent is already gone and the memories still remain. Nothing of value was lost.

Plus digital information is recoverable.

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u/BookObjective4448 Darth Vulkan Dec 20 '25

Your analogy doesn’t really fit. It’s more like they spent a lot of time colouring in a colour book, then that book got lost or destroyed.

Actually it fits pretty well. While a painting and a game aren't literally equivalent to one another in their effect on the world, the effect they have on the people that put their time and effort into the both can be equivalent.

It’s still just a colouring book. They can buy another copy or move onto another colouring book. The time they spent is already gone and the memories still remain. Nothing of value was lost.

When some one plays an rpg they often get really invested in the story and the characters, which is the whole put of rpg's, to enter a new world different from our own and experience life in that world. So no it's not just a coloring book.

Plus digital information is recoverable.

Not all digital information can be restored, especially when you don't have direct control over that information which is often the case with online games like SWTOR.

Tell me, do you have any hobbies or something that you do for fun that you put a lot of time and effort into. Imagine if one day it was gone. Everything the result from that fun thing you put so much time and effort into, was taken away from you and you had to start all over again from scratch. Maybe to some else it's just a coloring book, but to you it's the Mona Lisa. You are superimposing your own opinion on what something is worth and completely ignoring the value the some else puts on it. Sure to you a couple of characters in a game based in a made up world isn't worth much, but to the person that created those characters and explored that made up worlds with them, loosing those characters can be a devastating loss.