Released back in 2004, World of Warcraft is one of the widely played multiplayer online role-playing games by Blizzard Entertainment. This is the 4th installment of the Warcraft series and it has entirely redefined modern MMORPG games. Although the game is somewhat stable and works smoothly, many players have been complaining about various bugs and issues with the game.
Lately, according to multiple reports, players are not able to log in to a character due to this error. Fortunately, there are a few options available if you are not able to access your character in WoW. Let’s learn in this guide, how you can fix the World of Warcraft “A character with that name already exists” error.
How to Fix World of Warcraft “A character with that name already exists” Error
One of the main reasons why you are receiving the “A character with that name already exists” error is that the WoW character is not logged out from the server properly. However, there could be some other possible reasons behind that. Here we have covered all potential solutions suggested by the Blizzard support team to fix this error.
1. If you already have an alternate character, use that to login into the game and then exit from it.
2. At times, particular add-ons interfere with the performance of the game, and eventually it affects your login ability. If this is the case, try this tactic. When you receive the “A character with that name already exists” error, then exit from the game and uninstall the add-ons you’ve used earlier.
Then open up the Blizzard Battle.net desktop app, click on Options and select Show in Explorer (For Windows) or Reveal in Finder (For Mac). Then go to the World of Warcraft folder. Rename the Cache, Interface, and WTF folders to CacheOld, InterfaceOld, and WTFOld respectively. Once done, relaunch the game and the error should be fixed.
3. If nothing works, you may need to wait until the servers remove that character from their database. It usually takes around 30 minutes of inactivity.
4. If that doesn’t work too, the last option you have is to visit Technical Support Forums or contact the Blizzard team.
Hopefully, one of these steps will help you to fix the World of Warcraft (WoW) “A character with that name already exists” error.
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