Quote Originally Posted by Klive View Post
Honestly, if I was SE, people without an active account would not be my biggest consideration. They are not paying or playing, they are going to miss opportunities. Does it suck for them when/if they come back, yes. I'm rather sure SE find the players currently playing and paying their game, thus supporting SE, to be the bigger concern. Asking them to worry about people not playing, or even paying, for their game is asking a lot.
It's in their best interest. Since you've started talking about sales point of view, have you thought about the fact that people currently not playing are less likely to come back if they know they will land on a completely random server, separated from all their friends and basically forced to start anew? I know for sure I wouldn't come back.

So if SE doesn't care for non-paying players, not only do they lose potential customers, they also show the community they don't really care about it. Why do you think the JP side of the forums exploded in flames, even though they are usually calm and polite about everything?

And why do you think YoshiP made that post? Because of us raging? Hell no, they are afraid the JP community will give up and leave.