Quote Originally Posted by Devils_Lawyer View Post
This will never happen simply because by any odd chance that said lvl 1 player comes back 6 months later he should be able to rely on SE that his character + name hasnt been removed.

If a game company starts deleting inactive characters their reputation is gonna drop like a stone tied to an anvil.
Not going to say that I want this to happen, but MANY game companies have done name purges on inactive characters. That being said, those MMOs waited until their title was out for 3+ years before doing this. Other MMOs have done this by the sneaky method of server migration/merges. Aion actually renamed everyone and gave everyone a rename scroll and said "whoever logs in first and grabs your name, wins!". I even had a name "retaken" in WoW a few years ago. Its something that may happen in the future, but the far far far future. Anyone that wants a taken name these days needs to find a different surname (but please no more Legolassss, or Clooud, or SephirothXX).