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World of Warcraft: Preserve Legacy Character Names Before It's Too Late
SBFord
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World of Warcraft accounts that have not been accessed since 2008 and before will see the names reclaimed by Blizzard to free them up for other players to use. Those wishing to hold on to legacy account names will want to log into each character in order to preserve the name.
Our goal with this great name liberation is to make sure new and returning players have a large and varied pool of names available to choose from—so log in now if you wish to preserve your unused characters’ names for your journey intro Draenor.
Source: World of Warcraft Community Site
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After i read this, i checked my battle.net account for when my WoW sub expired and found that i could activate a 10 day MoP trial.
Clicked the button, logged into the game which was still installed on my pc, logged out after checking my old chars and running some circles in Dalaran and Orgrimmar.
No matter how hard all mmorpgs in the last ten years failed, i guess there is just no way back to WoW for me.
So, basically, you just screwed new/existing players out of potentially getting those names that you will never, ever use again?
Classy move, champ.
You are kidding right?
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Interesting, but im curious.. what made you quit wow back then?
Your loss, rofl. Big time.
Uh no.. aint a dumb move considering it was YOUR dumb move for leaving the game in the first place. If you aint playing then fuck off - we get the names then.
+1
More than likely anyone who hasn't been playing the game for the last 6+ years not only doesn't care, but probably doesn't even remember the names of the toons on their account anyway, and is unlikely to come back anytime soon. In a way i am a bit surprised that Blizzard aren't just clearing out old unused accounts rather than just reclaiming the names, as i doubt the previous 'owners' have any proprietary interest anyway.
Oh so true
My first reaction is waaaaah I don't want to lose my precious names in a game I haven't played for over a year. (although I don't think I am affected by this)
But then I calm down and admit to myself my lifestyle has changed, and I have no place for a time sink such as WoW anymore. Shame, some great memories came via this game than no other game has given me since.
my top MMOs: UO,DAOC,WoW,GW2
most of my posts are just my opinions they are not facts,it is the same for you too.
There is laws to uphold , they can't just delete your characters, i havent played in 4 years but it dont change the fact i have titles, mounts and so forth you can no longer get in the game.
Yes ill most likely never return to WoW but ill take use of this 10 day free MoP trial on my account to preserve all my char names, why ? , because their mine, simple, i've used those names for characters since back in UO, don't see why i should give them up to some punk who still plays WoW ;-)
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AHAHAHAH!! nice one!!!
On the other hand some people who have no intention playing the game login to keep their name. Hoarding name in a game they don't or never going to play, classy online trolls.
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Not necesarely. There are games I have not been playing for 3 to 5 years, some logged from time to time to single alts, .... but could happen I could return some day. Also I have been playing Alliance only on Wow for something like 6 years, then continued more actively also my horde alts (and many time like to have same names for certain alts).
So i do not see any problem from Blzzard being POLITE to warn and ask. On the other side I'm sure behind this is also calculation to attract somebody back. :-)
Smarter move would to add last names that in conjunction with the first name makes a unique name. That way you dont take away people names. It also give people freedom to reuse the same name many times with a different last name.
Bingo! Too bad the MMO industry can't hire people who can actually think outside the box.
1. My account wasn't inactive since 2008, so my names wouldn't have been deleted anyway.
2. None of my character's names is in any way special in a way that them being unavailable would affect the experience of the active playerbase. Although i'm still one of these players that like to think a while when creating a character and try to come up with a decent name for a char. On none of my accounts there are any "XxXDestryarXxX"s or "Sephiiiroth"s.
To not derail the thread with my personal "why i quit" story, i will PM you later about that. Thanks for your interest