You were leaving a game or entering a game, at that exact millisecond someone's namebot was trying to pick PvM and it got nipped. Happened to me five times last season when I ran a namebot. I kept getting my own names and killing my characters right after reset. :/

I am almost entirely sure this is not the reason.

If it were true certain names would essentially never be safe to use due to massive attempts on them.

None of the names I lost this route had even been taken into a game.

I'm saying his namebot may have picked them up. not someone elses.

HELL YEAH

Hello Giovanni,

Thanks for contacting Blizzard Technical Support, my name is Jon. This email is regarding the error report we received concerning your Diablo II Realm character. We thank you for your patience as we investigated this issue.

If you were previously receiving problems with your character, we urge you to try it again. You should be able to join/create games with this character on Battle.net, if not, please reply back with the error message you are receiving and we will investigate further.

Please note that the error may have involved a corruption in the character's data. In order to fix the corruption with some characters, items may have been deleted from the characters' inventories, stashes, corpses and/or experience points and levels may be lost. Any lost items or experience points cannot be restored. We apologize for any such losses and for any inconvenience that this may have caused you.

Again, thank you for your patience.


Sincerely,

Jon D.
Accounts and Technical Support
Blizzard Entertainment
http://www.blizzard.com/support
Feel free to contact me back for help regarding this or other issues.

-----Original Message-----
From: jerr99@yahoo.com
To: web.support@blizzard.com
Sent: 8/7/2011 7:25:11 AM
Subject: Diablo II Character Status Request

1. Name -- Giovanni
2. Account Name -- Arreat.
3. Character Name -- PvM
4. Realm -- USEast
5. Category -- Player Not Found

This post was edited by Oat on Aug 8 2011 04:56pm

You have to delete and remake your hero kind person of D2JSP. Good luck man.

character files get corrupted sometimes. You got lucky they were able to get it back. In the past they wern't able to recover them. I'm guessing they finally looked into this issue when there was a mass problem (relative) during the last reset and dozens of characters had this issue.

I am surprised they were able to recover this character (if they did)

Once someone else has the character all they are going to do is get the same kind of email from the new user since you can't have both on the same realm.

Seems like a vicious cycle waiting to happen in my opinion.

Although perhaps his error was non related to the normal glitch since his character was a daily used toon.