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Game Forum / Role Playing Games / Diablo / August 2006BNNAFU
Logged on to bnet this morning and saw all my chars with expiration dates on them--ones I was playing yesterday were scheduled to expire in 59 days. Logged on from my other comp (another copy with a different CD key) and didn't see this. Huh? Mark.  SignatureWhile I'll admit that anyone can make a mistake once, to go on making the same lethal errors century after century seems to me nothing short of deliberate.--V. > Logged on to bnet this morning and saw all my chars with expiration dates > on them--ones I was playing yesterday were scheduled to expire in 59 days. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Huh? Check your computer date. I had this the other week - the PC date was set to some time next year and BNet was telling me all the characters were long expired (although, bizarrely, I could still open a game with them!). Then I adjusted the date on my PC to what it should be and "magically" all my characters were no longer expired. Seems that BNet uses your PC clock to determine when you last logged on and used a character. Engram >> Logged on to bnet this morning and saw all my chars with expiration >> dates on them--ones I was playing yesterday were scheduled to expire [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > Engram Doh! Thanks. I had travelled into the future and forgot about it. Actually, I was looking at the calendar on the computer to see what day of the week September 17th would be and clicked OK; naturally Windows concluded we were going to skip a month. Mark. SignatureWhile I'll admit that anyone can make a mistake once, to go on making the same lethal errors century after century seems to me nothing short of deliberate.--V. > Logged on to bnet this morning and saw all my chars with expiration > dates on them--ones I was playing yesterday were scheduled to expire [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Mark. That is just sooo Blizzard. Sucks huh? I wonder what would have happened if you hadn't logged on with them for 60 days? SignatureShaun. > Logged on to bnet this morning and saw all my chars with expiration dates > on them--ones I was playing yesterday were scheduled to expire in 59 days. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Huh? ROFL!!! I see you found this litle gem. The way that works is that the game pulls from the database the last access date, and then looks at the current date.... on YOUR computer. Just for fun, log off bnet, set you clock ahead 4 months and log back on, and all your chars APPEAR to have expired. They can still be accessed, as the delete process works on their side ONLY and doesn't look at your computer's clock. Only Blizzard !!!! Mickey >> Logged on to bnet this morning and saw all my chars with expiration >> dates on them--ones I was playing yesterday were scheduled to expire [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > Only Blizzard !!!! Shame you can't use that little trick to recover genuinely expired chars. LOL Signature-- * If I were a Klingon, I would kill you where you type. Yahoo: evilbill_agqx Web: http://www.evilbill.org.uk > >> Logged on to bnet this morning and saw all my chars with expiration > >> dates on them--ones I was playing yesterday were scheduled to expire [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > Shame you can't use that little trick to recover genuinely expired chars. > LOL Yeah, the character scrub runs solely on their database server. The SQL for it is more or less "Delete from Char_Table where days (last_acess - current_date) > 60" Mickey > -- > -- > * If I were a Klingon, I would kill you where you type. > > Yahoo: evilbill_agqx > Web: http://www.evilbill.org.uk >> Shame you can't use that little trick to recover genuinely expired >> chars. LOL [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > "Delete from Char_Table where days (last_acess - current_date) > 60" 60, eh? Always used to be 90. No wonder my friend's chars that I was keeping refreshed, expired earlier this year. :( Signature-- * I am the Jaffa of Christmas Past, ho ho ho Kree! Yahoo: evilbill_agqx Web: http://www.evilbill.org.uk |
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