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Characters are gone. Have unistalled and reinstalled several times.
I was playing over the weekend, had access to all my original characters. When I tried to log in today, I got a windows error telling me that the game was not designed to be run on windows. Unistalle...
likely logging in on a different account , swtor do not delete characters
if need call swtor support when the lines open and they can help locate the missing characters for you
