Remove the One time character restore rule!

[Woggers]

There is really no need for a character to be deleted multiple times. You can cancel your sub, uninstall, etc, come back a year and a half later resub and everything will be as you left it character wise. If you have a personal house, you'll lose that though.
If its drama that is causing you to delete your character, stop doing that and just do one or more of the following; server transfer, name change/fantasia.

[myahele]

Changing server, name, race and gender will not work against a stalker -or anyone- who already have your lodestone ID since that remains consistent despite all of the aforementioned changes.

[Lexia]

Changing server, name, race and gender will not work against a stalker -or anyone- who already have your lodestone ID since that remains consistent despite all of the aforementioned changes.

Why would person want to restore a character if this is the reason it was deleted for?

[Rennies]

People do receive threats of physical violence on this game. Because my friend decided to do some content with me instead of some other guy, that guy threatened physical violence against me. It's rare, but it does happen. I've also had one of my friends have lies spread about them to try and damage their reputation in this game.

Oh, yeah, I've had people spread lies about me. But that's not really relevant enough to consider deleting your own character. The blist function exists for a reason, as does the report function. And if someone believes anything they're told, they aren't worth being friends with.

[Sho86]

I just wanted to chime in on this too. I did the mistake of deleting my main character on XI a very very long time ago. When I came back to it about a year later, they were willing to try but couldn't find it due to which content ID was being used for what (if I remember correctly.) I ended up making a new copy of my main for about little more than half a year because of that, at which point they changed their system apparently and were able to recover it finally. After that fiasco I learned my lesson and do not personally delete any characters of mine no matter the reason. Its actually kind of fun too since on some games I had alts that I didn't touch for years, then came to find an item in their inventory that could no longer be obtained, making it rather valuable on the market of that game.

[Vidu]

I wouldnt say its a "rule" they're having here - its a courtesy and they're telling you "We are going to do this ONCE for you. We're going to dig into our data once to get something back you throw away."
They wouldnt even have to do this and its not a feature that should be treated lightly - depending on when you created the character it might get into conflicts with names, its taking away time for that guy who's doing the restore, restores arent always easy and smooth etc.

I fully understand that someone can do something like this in a very emotional situation, I've seen it happen. But, personally - and this might sound a bit drastic here, bare with me, please - there have been times when deleting my character would have felt like a "mini"-suicide. And when I felt tempeted to delete my character I stayed away from the game. And its the best advice I can give anyone - if you feel the urge to delete your character, step away, clear your head, come back tomorrow and see if you still want to or if you cant just walk away. Dont do stuff like this an expect a company like SE to pick up your pieces for you... So, no, I dont feel like anything needs to be done here - unless on the side of the people deleting their characters multiple times.
Dont kill your character if you dont want them to stay dead...

[Bloody]

Half of this thread... I don't even.... /facepalm.

If you really are the dramatic type who rage-deletes characters over stupid little things repeatedly, you really believe you deserve extra attention to fix your problems? That's definitely what seems to be the core idea. As for the person who found out it is account-wide, yes they should probably alter this slightly. But seriously, if you are short-sighted enough to repeatedly discard your character of your own volition, you get no sympathy.

As for hacked deletes, there should be more leeway for this, but to prevent abuse there should be measures to prove account hacking as well.

[Cleftobismal]

I don't understand. . . . Deleting a character = Forever gone. . . Just because an exception happens doesn't mean it should result in entitlement. . . When you delete a character you forfeit your right to continue your progress. You must start over like the rest of us mere mortals who make a new character. No Exception.


I'm sure that deleting a character may be beneficial for anyone who is on a gaming therapy. But do realize when you delete it, do send your hopes of it coming back to the trash. Because the point of deleting a char is definitely not aligned with the idea of it coming back. I'm sorry to say the following, please prepare yourself . . . . :


Start over. Don't delete your character again. And please get a grip on balancing your life and a video game.

[CompSci88]

All I can see from this thread is OP vs Everyone else. Now, OP, think for a moment, why would they change something on one person opinion?

[Chiramu]

How many years have MMOs been out? How many MMOs have you played OP? It's not like a single player game where you need to restart because you've forgotten what you were up to. Why would you ever delete your character if you have an attachment to them? The only characters I've deleted have been ones I don't care about(from WoW and test characters in FFXIV to see how races run/emotes etc).
It's just like in RL, would you really throw away something that you've loved for the past few years?

The request from this thread just sounds like a "get out of jail free" card, OP was stupid multiple times and wants SE to bail him out all times.