Purge Dead Accounts!

[humbleroller]

Purge Dead Accounts!

Sorry, Im not sure if its been a week or not since this idea has been posted. Probably not.

I came up with a great character name a while back, tried it, **** its taken. I sent in game mail and it came back to me.

There must be some very fair way to remove accounts and free up some cool character names from accounts that are clearly dead.
Im talking about the ones that never made it off of Korthos. Free2Play accounts than never paid any real money and didnt like the game and are not coming back.
Send them an email first telling them that if they dont log in within 30 days their account will be erased. If they care then they will be back.
I am talking about people who havent dropped a cent into this game.

I dont claim to have the perfect formula but there must be something that can be done that is fair to all.

Those of us with Altisis and Multi-Character Playing Disorder need those names.

Also, can we have hyphens in first names please ?
And can the price of first name changes be dropped from 995tp to something more respectable please ?
Even if it can only be done while LR/TRing.
It wouldnt be available in the store if it was too hard of a job (search'n'replace in the database probably)

PPP. Please your Paying Players.

I guess I wont be spending 600 TPs on a new character slot now and another 600 to upgrade to a Greater Tome of Learning.
Your loss Turbine.

[biggin2]

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People come and go. I was a VIP for 4 years, took a year break and now I'm back again. Had my account been deleted there would have been no way I would have started over. Now if there were a way to put in a request for a name, have the person emailed then they could sell you their name for say 500 TP, 300 being transferred to the seller with Turbine getting a cut, everyone would win.

[Lonnbeimnech]

Maybe next time you could come up with the great name before someone else does?

[PsychoBlonde]

They could just do what some games do and allow people to give their characters whatever display name they want to and associate all of those characters with a unique player-name. There's really no reason why every character needs to have a "Unique" name.

[Catteras]

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There are a lot of disgruntled folks around here as it is, it seems. To take a summer vacation only to return home to find my account deleted would certainly lead to pitchforks and torches. Horrible idea. Absolutely horrible.

Everyone has to deal with his name being taken. Work around it like the rest of us do.

[Icywave]

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There are a lot of disgruntled folks around here as it is, it seems. To take a summer vacation only to return home to find my account deleted would certainly lead to pitchforks and torches. Horrible idea. Absolutely horrible.

Everyone has to deal with his name being taken. Work around it like the rest of us do.

That exactly!

[redspecter23]

If Turbine decided to clear all player names from accounts that haven't been active in say 5 years or more, I wouldn't be against it. There is zero reason to purge entire accounts just because a name is taken. Clear the names to free them up and then if the 5+ year inactive player comes back, they can rename themselves. I'm not saying they should go ahead and do this. I just wouldn't have any issues with a player that hasn't logged into their account in over 5 years having their name go back into the pool.

[Mahalko128]

There should definitely be a forced renaming process for lengthy inactivity so that others might receive the name from those that no longer play, like an inheritance to those more deserving.

[Jasparion]

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There are a lot of disgruntled folks around here as it is, it seems. To take a summer vacation only to return home to find my account deleted would certainly lead to pitchforks and torches. Horrible idea. Absolutely horrible.

How is this in any way related to the OP saying to delete years old accounts which never made it past Korthos?

[Memnir]

I say give em ten years after the last log-in on account record.
Granted I am utterly not in favor of any purging of old account... but I think a decade of inactivity might be a clue they're not coming back. And, in another year-plus-change- we'll be at the ten year mark from launch. Seems like that'd be the time to start purging, not before.

[SirValentine]

Purge Dead Accounts!

No.

Those of us with Altisis and Multi-Character Playing Disorder need those names.

Or more creativity.

Also, can we have hyphens in first names please ?

There's a winner!

/signed to hyphens in names

We know Turbine has the tech to allow this, as there are currently names with hyphens and digits in them (folks renamed when forcibly server-transferred).

[Qhualor]

once in awhile you see threads from players that come back after a long period of time, even 5 years. I wish there was a fair way to free up names, but I don't know what that could be. there could be a time limit and if not logged in than the account loses the name only not the characters, but I doubt that would work. whether or not someone pays into DDO or not, F2P or not, shouldn't have any bearing in character names.

[GreenGurgler]

I get the idea, but what would Turbine get out of the deal?

Why would it be in their interest? And dont automatically say $$$ because there would likely be a very limited market for it once the shakedown occurs and somebody gets their shiny new Drizzt, Bruener, Strom, etc... And the arguments made for money Turbine could make could just as easily be argued the other direction.

And I think its pretty obvious why an account deletion should NEVER occur. Perhaps the lose your name after X many years of inactivity but even that will cause ill will if players come back from extended break only to find their names gone.

The way they chose their naming scheme so many years ago was a failed plan but they have stuck to it and I doubt that will change in DDO's lifetime.


I just dont see what good Turbine would get out of it and lets face it if it isnt good for Turbine, it isnt going to happen.

Just my 2 copper

[MalkavianX]

I say give em ten years after the last log-in on account record.
Granted I am utterly not in favor of any purging of old account... but I think a decade of inactivity might be a clue they're not coming back. And, in another year-plus-change- we'll be at the ten year mark from launch. Seems like that'd be the time to start purging, not before.

Ten years minimum. Even then, what happens when someone comes back after ten years and is super ****ed that their account has been purged? Or even something as simple as their names being changed? I know I would be quite p.o.'d.

I think people should learn that just because they came up with a name, it doesn't mean that someone else didn't also come up with the same name. Try and make a unique name. If someone else already picked that name, try something radical and unheard of... pick a different name!

Problem solved!

/close thread





P.S. I've been playing for a few years now and I have yet to be stumped for a name on any one of my 40-some odd characters.

[Ungood]

Keep looking till one sticks.

[humbleroller]

well i can tell by some of the replies that some people cant read, or choose to read the words they think i mean.

i was talking about Free2Play accounts that havent been touched in over a year.
if you spent a single real cent you would have gone from Free2Play to Premium, therefore safeguarding your account.

[Memnir]

well i can tell by some of the replies that some people cant read, or choose to read the words they think i mean.

i was talking about Free2Play accounts that havent been touched in over a year.
if you spent a single real cent you would have gone from Free2Play to Premium, therefore safeguarding your account.

I read it. I just think that regardless of pay-label, 10 years is a better number... if at all.

Because, and I hate to break this to you, most of the "good" names you are thinking this would free up were nabbed by folks who paid for the game when it was first released in 06- so they'd never qualify as F2P anyways. Just sayin.

[humbleroller]

it was a really good name though!

i develop a deep connection with my characters and maybe its a bit OCD of me but if they cant have that name then they arnt the same character.

i have 3 characters that need renaming (its either that or deletion) but ill be buggered if im going to spend 2985 tps just to do it.

[Memnir]

Thesaurus.com helps me quite a bit when naming characters. Quite a lot of good names still abound out there - just need to uncover the right one. I make alts all the **** time, and am still finding great names. That's why I think a decade is fair if they do a purge at all. As a person who has seen friends return who've been away for five or more years - I don't think we should ever purge names. But... if they've not logged in for ten years or more, something could be said for the likelihood they're not coming back.

[Qhualor]

it was a really good name though!

i develop a deep connection with my characters and maybe its a bit OCD of me but if they cant have that name then they arnt the same character.

i have 3 characters that need renaming (its either that or deletion) but ill be buggered if im going to spend 2985 tps just to do it.

http://rinkworks.com/namegen/