Pre-season account purge

Sigma476·Oct 20, 2014·5 votes·1,028 views

What do you think about removing unused accounts to allow other people to use the name? Not deleting their game data, but disabling the account and renaming it to a generic name like "SummonerXXXXX". The accounts would still exist, the owner would just have to select a new name if and when they tried to log in. If this were done to accounts that had not logged in for the past two seasons it would free up hundreds of account names for people to use.

What do you all think? Should the original account owner always have the name, or should accounts be treated like ELO, and drop after a period of inactivity?

10 Comments

NavaruneOct 20, 20142 votes

They already do this occasionally, sometimes coinciding with a name change sale.

Desmond LawOct 21, 20142 votes

http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/news/game-updates/features/summoner-name-clean

Sigma476Oct 23, 20141 votes

I'm glad they're implementing something like this. Now we just need a way to see what accounts have recently lapsed so we can start sniping cool names :)

Rustling BushOct 20, 20141 votes

this has all my yes

Deep Terror NamiOct 20, 20141 votes

If you have your sights on a name that is being held by an inactive account, submit a support ticket to request them to open the name up for you.

That being said, them automatically doing it on the names with the longest inactivity sounds like a good idea.

Hyrum GraffOct 20, 20141 votes

They already do this! If an account is inactive for [Summoner Level] Months, the name becomes available for you to take with a name change!

ShinigamiOtakuOct 20, 20141 votes

they already do this. I think they said the account has to be inactive for 2 years before they free up the name

CyrrusOct 20, 20141 votes

I like the idea of a mass purge rather than just once and a while!

AithosOct 21, 20141 votes

They already do this, although it's an absurdly long period of time for level 30 accounts (2.5 years or something iirc) so meh. I'm still pissed someone took my name, I literally created it and have been using it since 1998 :(