Quote Originally Posted by Mettaur View Post
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.
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.