Timed Name Release

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Originally Posted by thunderbreak

No, originally I suggest that all the inactive account after a period of time should have the name released so people who wants those names and have an active account will have a chance to get it, especially a new player who never had a chance to pick that name earlier. And if the person come back give them a free name change. Then everyone told me to go to hell lol.

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Please don't put words in peoples mouths.

On topic: There have been times where I couldn't play and stopped payment on my account. If I had come back and not had my name I would have been livid.

Like others have said, it's one thing to release the names of account who have a 0% chance of coming back (banned accounts), but for someone who has been an upstanding citizen of this community? A lot of people spend quite a bit of time on their names and characters. They shouldn't be punished just because they have other things to do than play at that point in their lives.

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Originally Posted by Mettaur

Please don't put words in peoples mouths.

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Please don't take everything so literally. Have you seen how many reject posts and how many likes they got? What do you think they are trying to tell me and my proposition?

Someone disagreeing with you and then giving a reason why they feel that way is not necessarily telling you to go to hell or whatever, that is taking opposing points of view too seriously.

You are giving your opinion and they are giving theirs, its as simple as that.
Sure, some could have disagreed more tactfully but coming off a little brusque and telling someone off are completely different things.

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Originally Posted by thunderbreak

Please don't take everything so literally. Have you seen how many reject posts and how many likes they got? What do you think they are trying to tell me and my proposition?

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They were telling you that they think it's a bad idea.

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Originally Posted by Mettaur

There have been times where I couldn't play and stopped payment on my account. If I had come back and not had my name I would have been livid.

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Well, how long did you leave? If you're saying that you left for 6 months and couldn't renew one month to refresh whatever policy SE has on purging old names then I say you didn't care enough about the name to begin with. Even if that's not the policy SE actually has.

If SE had a policy saying it will release names on accounts receiving no payment for 6 consecutive months and I cared, I'd fork up the fourteen bucks and not think twice about it.

its been first come first sever for taking names on mmo for the longest time.. so your just going to have to find another name or reserve it upon the game release. i have a name on hold on my account when i get 10$ for a name change.

I'd be fine with them doing what some other websites I've used do with usernames: if someone doesn't log in for a year, they send that person an e-mail notifying them that because they haven't logged in for a year, their username is now classed as "inactive" and will be deleted in 30 days unless they log in.

That would give people who are still interested in playing the game the chance to keep their names and weed out the ones that really and truly are abandoned. Because, let's be real here, if you haven't logged in in a year or more and you don't respond to an e-mail, you're no longer actively playing. Why shouldn't an active player be able to use the name?