Deleted Characters Being Reviewed

What could they possibly have used as the used as the qualifications?
Clearly it wasn't anything reasonable like creation date or, you know, whether or not the character was actually an Ultimate Adventurer.

I think they used the date of acquiring the skill, but put it like way back in April. Might be some Korean programmer entered 10-4-11 instead of 4-10-11 (or vice versa). Not enough data in the deleted chars list (too many people saying "shortly after UAs were created") to be sure, though.

As for the debate as to whether or not they can restore characters, I'm pretty damn sure they could.
But, if they do, then it becomes clear that they've lied every time they've ever said they couldn't.
What's more, it would also prove that they could have restored all of the characters affected by the recent/ongoing hacking wave to the state they were in before being hacked instead of offering up piss-poor compensation.

Actually, it wouldn't.
They can't roll back individual accounts or characters.
But they can roll back the entire database.
The database snapshot from this morning before the maintenance, or from last week for that matter, surely includes these characters. People have also testified that in previous rollbacks they got deleted characters back.

They need to restore to that savepoint and then think up some better criteria to ban (not delete) by. Just in case, you know, they net the wrong fish again. At least bans are easily undone on an individual basis.