Will deleting old, unused characters help free up server space?

[Jijifli]

Yeah, I hear that.

Kind of figured if everyone subscribed deleted one unused alt, it could help, it certainly couldn't hurt right? But I can't seem to confirm whether or not it would help anything so. XD

It wouldn't help at all.

I know it's evened out more somewhat in recent times, in terms of created characters (not played, created) Balmung actually had the lowest population of all NA servers, yet it was always locked away because players who had Balmung character actually logged into them.

So deleting unused characters would do nothing, at all, in this scenario. At best nothing would happen, and at worse it would only help by people quitting because Square is deleting characters for people and that's a very slippery slope to do, since that'll give people the fear of "They'll just delete my main eventually if it suits them better." Then they won't even play at all.

[KarstenS]

i got like 12 or so alts on shiva alone. so yes people have alts

Wasn't there a limit of 8 chars per account per world?