I appear to have lost my primary ladder characters in Diablo 2 for some reason.
Normally they expire after 90 days without being played, and I haven’t had much time to play it lately, so I’ve just been logging in every once in a while just to reset that expiry timer. I was cutting it close this time, but still within the limits — after logging in, each character displayed an “Expires in 5 days” warning below it.
Except that when I actually tried to select a character, a popup window declared “The character ‘Soandso’ has not been used in 3 months and has expired.” Way to keep your schedules straight, Blizzard.
Oh well. I generally don’t go back to older characters once a new ladder season starts anyways. The current season has been running for a while, so I don’t want to risk starting new characters only to have them cut short by a sudden ending of the season, so I’ll just wait until the start of the next ladder season before playing again.