should SE delete characters that were never used

[Cakekizyy]

Aren't those names against naming rules? I know they are on a lot of other MMOs I have played.

[Azrael]

Deleting characters is too drastic, I agree with the choice WoW picked, making the name free after a certain of period of time staying inactive.
You can still get it back if someone didn't use it during this time.

[Lan_Mantear]

No, thank you. I don't care how long a character is idle. If their account is active, they should not be deleted. Making a name is pathetically easy. "Legolas Ronso" there, done. "Roschak Meridian", done again.

I can understand if resources are limited, but in this case, they are not. Be creative and make up your own name.

[Titor]

For me it is less about the name and more about the storage space. Imagine if all these level 1-5's that are no longer played were deleted. All their empty inventories that are allocating space would go away. This leaves more room for active, leveled characters... A lot of limitations come down to server issues, and keeping all these Unplayed/never played characters just causes more server strain. If someone made an alt and really wants to keep it or play it later, asking to get to like level ten is not going to hurt.

[Lan_Mantear]

A lot of limitations come down to server issues, and keeping all these Unplayed/never played characters just causes more server strain. If someone made an alt and really wants to keep it or play it later, asking to get to like level ten is not going to hurt.

Server limitations is a political excuse. It is technically accurate, but is also not the complete or root reason why they don't provide us with additional inventory or the like.

It is a akin to your network provider blaming 'network latency' for the slowness of speed. When in reality, its because you were capped and didn't pay for the higher tier.

[Snugglebutt]

No character should be deleted by SE without consent of the account owner regardless of how much time has passed unless the account itself is permanently banned due to breach of ToS. Just because someone has been inactive doesn't validate deletion of their characters without consent. In terms of losing the right to the name of a character after x amount of time (which is the only limited thing in this following list which might be considered a restriction on others)...that is more of a grey area as they won't lose their items including limited time event items or legacy items, gear, achievements, mounts and minions, the amount of leveling and progress they have made and all of which they should retain in case they ever did come back.

For me it is less about the name and more about the storage space. Imagine if all these level 1-5's that are no longer played were deleted. All their empty inventories that are allocating space would go away. This leaves more room for active, leveled characters... A lot of limitations come down to server issues, and keeping all these Unplayed/never played characters just causes more server strain. If someone made an alt and really wants to keep it or play it later, asking to get to like level ten is not going to hurt.

You should not demand SE deletes other peoples characters without their consent just because they haven't played in a while, anymore so than me demanding they delete yours without consent just because I might not like your avatar. You would not want SE deleting yours if your honest just because in the future you may take some time away and playing other things or something in your life comes up which takes precedence, you would want your characters and everything they have achieved and gained if you ever decided to come back and the same applies to everyone else. Even with server issues it is in those cases SE's responsibility to increase server capacity and it is not acceptable to delete peoples characters without their consent provided they have not broken the ToS (botting/RMT etc). I have very low level character alts on this account which already have items from events that will not happen again, saying delete under x level is not acceptable to me either.

I have characters in a game called iRO for example dating back all the way to around early 2000's when it was still P2P, despite not playing it for a span of around 7-10 years and it now being F2P and also now on Steam; I can still go back and start playing again on them and I did for a period continuing from where I left off and the same applies to my old WoW characters. The same should be the case with this one. If iRO had deleted those characters I would not have gone back, I would not have started playing it again and I would be VERY pissed off at them for deleting my characters. If you want to argue the merits of losing a character name after x period of time that's fine but deleting people's characters without consent whom have not broken the ToS and by proxy not permanently banned should not be up for debate. Having to chose a new name if been away for years is one thing but having nothing to come back to because SE deleted your characters is something else and that should not be allowed to happen.

[Titor]

I mean they already will delete my house if I unsub for two months, which is literally the biggest investment I ever put into this game or any game to be frank. The house is actually worth more to me than the avatar. But no one cares about taking that from me due to server limitations. Lol. I can remake an avatar in a few minutes, but I could never get the location of my house back if I lost it, which I worked so hard to get and would be impossible to get again.

Also, as far as I know, to get event items the quests are like level 15 (or higher), so your low level alts are probably over my suggested threshold of ten anyway.

[Corfish]

What about cases like this? These characters have been lv1 since 2013.

If only he had the foresight to stop all the Kirito's and Asuna's.

[Lexia]

I would say if a character under level 30 and has not logged in and been a year or more it pretty safe to say that person not coming back.

[Lexia]

No character should be deleted by SE without consent of the account owner regardless of how much time has passed unless the account itself is permanently banned due to breach of ToS. Just because someone has been inactive doesn't validate deletion of their characters without consent. In terms of losing the right to the name of a character after x amount of time (which is the only limited thing in this following list which might be considered a restriction on others)...that is more of a grey area as they won't lose their items including limited time event items or legacy items, gear, achievements, mounts and minions, the amount of leveling and progress they have made and all of which they should retain in case they ever did come back.

Well if I understand right SE doesn't need the consent of anyone to do anything since person doesn't actually own the game or their characters and they just "license". Anyways I don't think anyone asking for people to delete leveled characters that have built up playtime.

You should not demand SE deletes other peoples characters without their consent just because they haven't played in a while, anymore so than me demanding they delete yours without consent just because I might not like your avatar.

This is just taking a example to the extreme, please don't make it into something more then it really is.