Say goodbye to lost armor and move on.

I posted on the bug forum that I had lost a very valuable belt when the patch was done. I also posted a ticket on the game with the GM. Asking if I was going to get my gold back.

I was thanked for telling them about the problem, but no mention was made of restoring my item or my gold.

I know two other people who report lost items. (Equipped then gone.....) If I look at my WOW as a small sample, I know about 10 players real well. Of those 10....two have also had items lost. That means that nearly 1/3 of the people in my sample lost items. If that is any indication, then with 12 million accounts, that means the potential is there for 4 million accounts to have lost items. If each account has multiple characters, that could mean 8 to 30 million lost items. How could Blizzard even begin to identify and replace these items?

As I reflect on the sheer magnitude of the potential loss, I suspect that Blizzard is not going to address it, and we can all kiss our items goodbye.

Still I can't help wondering what I am going to lose when 4.04 comes out. I shudder to think. I can only hope that maybe my characters will still have a weapon and a pair of pants.

(Except for the costly bug, I do like the new WOW.)