Removing unaccessed lvl1 characters

[Ksenia]

It doesn't impact me. If I made an Alt it was for the retainers so they made it to 17 but I would guess most just wanted a name.

EVE Online kind of did this after 8 or 9 years I want to say? It was tied to names and what they did was took inactive characters with a certain amount of skill points and renamed them 'Amarr citizen 123456' or Caldari citizen 123456 and so on. They could rename here to Hyur Midlander 123456 etc but I really don't know if there is a need or a point.

[Annah]

I remember when they did this in City of Heroes. It did not go over to well.

I remember seeing "Player01999291," "Player033122798," "Player 03719992113," etc after they implemented the changes.

It did not bode well

[MomomiMomi]

Admittedly without actually checking for sure, there are only about 40,000 lore names for each of the lalafell tribe's females.

Lalafell lives matter. Think of the lalas.

[ExKage]

Probably because they want to have a specific (popular) name, but its taken by that lv1 char

Life is simply unfair.

If that is the reason.

[Niwashi]

I have a couple level 1 characters I log into occasionally, but all I've ever really done with them so far is try out outfits and occasional roleplay. You don't need to level up for that. Would you include those as well? If you truly mean the "never logged in again" part, then it wouldn't apply to them, but if you extend it to any character that stays level 1 for a long time, then it does. I wouldn't want those characters deleted, nor their names taken away.

Though I haven't actually gotten involved in a roleplaying community here in this game so don't know how much it applies here, I know in some other games there are roleplayers who deliberately keep their roleplay characters at level 1 because it suits their image of them best. If there are people who are doing that here, they shouldn't have their characters taken away.

[Welsper59]

I have a couple level 1 characters I log into occasionally, but all I've ever really done with them so far is try out outfits and occasional roleplay. You don't need to level up for that. Would you include those as well? If you truly mean the "never logged in again" part, then it wouldn't apply to them, but if you extend it to any character that stays level 1 for a long time, then it does. I wouldn't want those characters deleted, nor their names taken away.

I'm pretty sure that's what the OP meant. I doubt anyone could logically argue for deleting characters that are used for whatever reason even if they are lvl 1.

If SE has no issue with it, then that's that. First come, first serve is the rule of thumb in those cases. If they feel that at some point in the future, names have become limited, they may elect to have a deletion protocol of inactive characters. Some games have done this in the past, although with XIV, because of the 2-name system, the chances of running out of meaningful names is exponentially slimmer.

[File2ish]

SE used to delete inactive characters (or content IDs?) in Final Fantasy XI (think it was 90 days?), but they stopped doing that a long time ago. Probably aren't going to see them deleting inactive characters here even if they are level 1, haven't logged in for months-years, and haven't even done anything aside from the first quest to get in the not instanced part of the game.

[Masquerade]

I really wanted to make a dragoon named Lavitz Slambert from the epiiiic classic PS1 game The Legend Of Dragoon, and there is already one on each server.
Only half a handful of them are over level 40. The rest are level 1-10. (most being only level 1)
Shame when a good names gets taken by a player that no longer plays the game anymore, or wasted the name during a free-trial account.

But I don't think the deletion of the character should be based on how often they play on it. But maybe the deletion of said 1-10 leveled alts on an account that has not been active for X amount of time.

*edit*
I know in the game DC Universe Online there are name collectors. They snag the names from video game character and names out of Pop-Coulter and then sale the rights to the name for in-game currency. Is that something that commonly happens on in this game?

[Ametrine]

LAAAAVIIIIIIIIIITZ!!!

Sorry, okay I'm done.


I've never heard of name selling. That is a new, and incredibly skeevy, concept to me.

As for the OP's suggestion, I don't know if I'd be cool with that.

It's very possible an old player may decide to return to the game after seeing the latest expansion, only to log back in for the first time in a few years to see everything poofed away from inactivity.

That would turn off players so fast.

[Sicno]

And I'm referring to lvl1 characters that only made it as far as the opening cutscene only to NEVER log in again. I'm finding this more common on alts, as opposed to people who've played on trial (I'd assume playing on trial will get you well beyond level 1.) and subbed as a result; that's how I ended up playing XIV.

I'm aware character removal in general is a touchy subject, probably having been implemented in other MMOs, but the way I see it, it's a level one character, fresh to the game, that say, hasn't been accessed in months to a year, maybe even more. Why bother? It can free up potential names and space (although I can't say how much space a character with no sufficient levels even takes up.)

What do you guys think?

...And how exactly are those lvl 1 characters bothering you?