Removing unaccessed lvl1 characters

[Niwashi]

I don't understand, why is it not fair? After 3 years, I'm willing to bet most people wouldn't even know what names they reserved. That's assuming they come back at all. At that point it's not even someone's character. It's some data that nobody has accessed. Three years is a LONG time for a game.

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.