Delete inactive characters

Greeting fellow eorzeans and Square Enix,

my suggestion is that characters that remain inactive for a set period of time would be deleted, so the name could be freed for other players who actually want to use that name for an active character. I'm suggesting this because the name I wanted since I started playing this is being used on a level 1 character, which is clearly inactive. It's so frustrating that I, an active player, should not get the name I want because an inactive character is using it. Square Enix refuses to delete the character, saying that it's against their terms. So that's why I'm suggesting changing the terms, so that characters that are inactive for too long are deleted, similarly to what happens to Free Companies' Masters, who lose their leadership after a set period of inactivity. Everyone who agrees with me, please give your opinion, to see if Square Enix really gives it a thought.

Thank you for reading and good game to all my fellow eorzeans!

I disagree. We all make alts for our own personal reasons. We pay for our accounts. We are entitled to these names.

Im guessing its a character name from something because I have never heard of this issue. Someone coincidentally choosing the same name I made up is unlikely.

On topic: I agree with jilly, I make characters for w/e reasons I have at the time and that person might play just as much as you, just not on that character.

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Originally Posted by Vlad_Dracula

Greeting fellow eorzeans and Square Enix,

my suggestion is that characters that remain inactive for a set period of time would be deleted

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What if I need inactive my account for a time because IRL duties? It's not a good ideia, sorry

How about? No. You don't delete a character. What you do is take away their name and when they decide to log back in they are forced to change it.

Happened to my character in City of Heroes and then SWTOR. You NEVER delete a character, that's hours of someone's time. And still when companies do this they give a heads up to old players before this happens. So that doesn't mean your beloved chosen name would be freed.

No! You can't have Cloud Strife!
You can be xCl0uD $trifex instead!

Seeing as how we have to use both a forename and surname, the likelihood that someone has the exact name you want is pretty slim (outide of names taken directly from say another game or sn anime or something).

Say I take a break from the game, long enough for all my characters to become "inactive". When i finally come back all of my characters would be gone and i'd have to start from square one. I'd quit the game entirely. It wouldnt be in SE's best interest to delete players' characters. They did it in FFXI for the first few years (for apace concerns iirc) but stopped.

No. If that name is that important to you, transfer to a server where it isn't taken.

Regardless of any sort of naming issues, deleting the characters is a line that would cause people who end up hit by it to quit the game. Sometimes people have to stop playing for a while, come back months sometimes years later. But if their character they put alot of work into is gone? Bye bye.

Also you are using one of the most popular names in fiction for your character right now. If you were going for a version of that name you shouldn't be surprised if its taken, and even if that level 1 didn't have the name someone else probably would have taken it by now. My name is from a game itself but I wouldn't exactly be asking for characters to get deleted in hopes of being able to use it.

Comparing an entire character being deleted, to just a character losing their FC leadership due to being inactive is a bit unfair. I've seen people in game rage because they had to use ' or '' after their name, or even something like 'Errza Scarlet' as their player name JUST so they could have something based off of a game/anime/popular name from the past/ect.

It honestly looks like you're kind of pissed that someone got the name before you could.

I think this should be a case by case scenario and SE could maybe handle that name change by forcing the inactive player to rename their character when they start playing again.

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Originally Posted by JillyBean

I disagree. We all make alts for our own personal reasons. We pay for our accounts. We are entitled to these names.

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While I largely agree with you, I might point out that a name could be held by an inactive account that's not currently being paid for.

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Originally Posted by Mokikoza

I think this should be a case by case scenario and SE could maybe handle that name change by forcing the inactive player to rename their character when they start playing again.

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And what about players that hit a rough time IRL and can't play the game for a half year or more, but really want to keep playing the game when they can afford it again. Would that be long enough to count as 'inactive' and being forced to lose their name, just because they got thrown a curve-ball?

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Originally Posted by Bacent

And what about players that hit a rough time IRL and can't play the game for a half year or more, but really want to keep playing the game when they can afford it again. Would that be long enough to count as 'inactive' and being forced to lose their name, just because they got thrown a curve-ball?

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No, I guess I also should have put that if the person is level 10 or below, and inactive for 2 years. Something obvious that is.

How about instead copying a name from fiction that's already taken, you have a delicious lore-friendly name instead?

(Like my amazing lore-friendly example, oh boy
/sarcasm)

Hate to fan the fire against your suggestion but this is a plain bad one at that. To ask that SE to delete an "inactive" character? That should always be the paying customer's choice, not the choice for SE. The only characters they should ever delete are RMT caught in the act.

The point that everyone seems to be missing is that I'm not speaking about main characters that people took the time level up, or even alts. What I'm talking about is about these level 1 characters, that have been clearly not in use, and were probably made just for fun. I also have made lots of these characters just for fun and to try on other races and genders. But after I had my fun, I deleted them, since I have my main character and that is the one I want to spend my time in. I agree with what you say that you are paying for an account that has the right to create lots of characters, I just think it's a bit selfish to occupy a popular name (yes, it is a name from a popular character), with a an inactive character, that is still in level 1, with starting clothes, which shows it hasn't been used. I'm playing this game for some time, and when I created my character, this character was already occupying the name and was exactly like it is today.

But of course everyone is entitled to their opinion and this is mine. I see there was no point in creating this thread, since I won't be getting any supporters. Good for everyone of you for getting the names you wanted, but like someone said in this thread, I really am pissed for not getting the name I wanted, but I am pissed because it is an inactive level 1 character.


P.S. I created this thread because SE gave me no other alternative... I didn't ask them to delete the character, I asked them if I somehow could get in touch with the owner of that character, because I would like to ask him/her if he/she wouldn't mind deleting it, as I wouldn't mind if I still had one of the characters I never used.

You asked SE if you could get in touch with the owner of that character? You know that they'd say no on every level, right?

If you didn't get the name you wanted, you'll just have to grin and bear it, elongate it, add a ' mark to it. But if you use a name that's 'popular' in any sense, you may night get to use it.

Heck, in Runescape (Lawl runescape) when I played I was addicted to Naruto, and I was beyond upset I couldn't pick 'Garra' as my name, and had to make due with Garra98765.