Removing unaccessed lvl1 characters

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No it's not. I've had my LOTRO characters for nine years, and several times taken long breaks from them while I focused more on this game instead, but I'm no less attached to them for that. For Guild Wars, it's even longer and with more multi-year breaks (though admittedly I'm not as attached to that one). Most of the games I've been playing longer than that are single player, so a bit different, but there's still lots of games I spend well over a decade on. Just because you may not have been playing games for long doesn't mean other people don't. A mere three years is barely any time at all.

I mean what you're describing is a different situation than what I described. You played those characters. I don't think it's an unreasonable assumption to believe that people aren't attached to level 1 characters on a game they haven't picked up in a very long time.

Since it is as simple as can be to add an extra vowel, an extra consonant, an apostrophe, or whatever else to make a name the same but unique, there is absolutely no need to remove existing characters for the vain convenience of others.

You know as well as I do that that's not what people want to do with their names. It just looks dumb. You can't tell me that Caaitlyn or J'ohn wouldn't raise a few eyebrows.