Should Riot delete old inactive accounts?

School Shooter·3/26/2017, 10:31:20 AM·3 votes·649 views

There are thousands of old inactive league accounts with highly sought after names. I've created a very small list so you understand the gist of what I mean when I say highly sought after.

These are only 4 of the thousands of names across each region which people would be dying to get their hands on. (Note that I only used examples from OCE)

My suggestion: Riot should create a system where if an account hasn't been used for an entire season an email goes out reaching to the owner of the account informing them that the account will be deleted in a month or so. Something like that. That way at the start of each season active members of the community have an opportunity to snatch up a name which they would like, but haven't had the option to take due to inactive accounts like the ones I posted above. (Also Riot if you do decide to implement this feature all I expect as a finder's fee is the username "Ahri" on OCE Ahri )

TL:DR Riot should delete old inactive accounts so we can change our usernames into ones which have been taken

9 Comments

Lapis3/26/2017, 10:35:33 AM4 votes

They do though. Well, they don't delete them, but the names become available after a certain amount of time. But the reason you can't have "Ahri" is because Riot reserves the names of champions. They don't want people having those names. Probably to avoid miscommunication during games?

Chembaron Yamada3/26/2017, 10:54:53 AM3 votes

They definitely shouldn't delete Accounts just for being inactive for 1 year. Some people spent money for skins and that stuff. It is one thing getting permabanned because your behaviour was breaking the contract with Riot games. But being inactive for 1 season is not breaking the contact.

Open up your name to other players who are more active than you and making you change your name is ok, but deleting the account is absolutely wrong.

Reformed Kensei3/26/2017, 12:18:51 PM3 votes

Should or shouldn't. I Garen tee you they won't do it.

TakeAGuessNerd3/26/2017, 11:04:58 AM1 votes

I personally disagree with this idea, let's say a person want to take a break from league because say school/work, they spent money on that account, and changed email. If they were to come back to league only to discover that their account is gone would it be fun for them?

What I think could be a better system is that inactive account's summoner name would be taken should they be inactive. As in, the username becomes available again, and if the original account wants to play again, they could simply choose a new name.

zrWQMdGHtY3/27/2017, 4:50:07 PM1 votes

I pref if they delete perma banned accounts so I can use my forum nickname ingame again xD

Nayru Din Farore3/28/2017, 1:05:54 AM1 votes

they should delete inactives, but maybe remove their summoner names so they log in and have a rename token, but i think deleting the permanently banned users is a good idea.. item 2050 item 3070

4NoxiousHours3/28/2017, 1:12:05 AM1 votes

I never heard of games deleting inactive accounts but I have heard about games re-naming inactive accounts so that the old name can be used free