Can we please get player names "released" from inactive accounts?

[Advance]

Hello!

I had recently tried contacting HiRez about this issue. What issue you might ask? Plenty of names are locked to peoples accounts who haven't played more then 1 game in over a year. Why is this problem? Some people much like myself, have specific gaming names they use from game to game. For those of us who stream under these names, have friends under these names, and a reputation with the name. It makes it extremely annoying.

Assuming, a few things, I feel it should be easily possible to do this, while being fair.

Players under level 5, or evel level 10, who have not played in over say, 6-8months. Probably don't plan on returning anytime soon. (While I can't speak for all of them, we can assume many of them won't) Some may be waiting for release.

I feel that, as long as the account hasn't had any gem purchases, is under level 10 or 5, and hasnt played in 6-8 months. Their names should be "released" should a current and active player request it.

This practice isnt something new. It's been done by a just about every single MMO (WoW, Rift, and others) its also been done by another Moba game. League of Legends.

This idea not only helps players like myself who are stuck using a different name, due to an inactive account. (in my case the account has 2 total matches played, and is a year old. Only reason I didn't get the name was he joined 3 days before me)

This also generates money for HiRez.

In theory, if 1 out of every 10 players, has a different name then they wanted, and say, 5 out of every 10 players who dont have their name, are lost to inactive accounts, if all those players were to buy 400 gems for the name change, thats a good chunk of the total player base buying gems for the name change.

For me, that seems like a win win.

It makes more sense to me, to take care of, and cater to your current active players, then to gamble with the chances of a returning inactive player.

What are your guys thoughts on this?

[XTG_7Z ¯\_(ツ)_/¯]

1. Runescape started doing something similar to this, years ago.
2. You should probably post this over on Reddit where it may be seen by a HiRez staff employee(where as over here on Steam, none of them bother to look what-so-ever).
3. You could also try bringing there attention tot his over on one of there official Twitter's. But I don't think Twitter will allow essays. Lol.

[ayebeesea]

Crap idea because in many cases people will return and wonder what tf happened to there account, for example last summer i downloaded smite and played it for about 50 minutes and then uninstalled it because at the time it wasnt for me, fastforward to christmas of that year a friend got me to play and with his help i figured out how to play and have played ever since and have 1000+ hours

T.L.D.R- no

[Willy]

Originally posted by ayebeesea:

Crap idea because in many cases people will return and wonder what tf happened to there account, for example last summer i downloaded smite and played it for about 50 minutes and then uninstalled it because at the time it wasnt for me, fastforward to christmas of that year a friend got me to play and with his help i figured out how to play and have played ever since and have 1000+ hours

T.L.D.R- no

Would it really have been a massive problem to make a new account in that situation

50 minutes couldn't have netted you any gains worth keeping

You wouldn't have been losing much

[RoofCat]

No.

Seriously no. Most people put at least some money in Smite. You can't f. up paid service easily.

[Project 39]

I think accounts that have been banned and stayed banned for more than a month or two, otherwise there's a chance the personcould return

[Gonzo_o0]

6 to 8 months of inactivity is way too short for this to happen to somebody's account, even if the account only has a few games played. There's a chance mistakes would be made in the process and would result in more work fixing them only because someone wants a different username. A personal game account is the equivalent of their online identity or persona, which you certainly understand since that's the whole point of your post. So the question is: why erase this account and not this one?

If Hi-Rez decides to do something like this, which could ultimately be a good idea, they're gonna bulk erase tons of accounts at once to save work after having notified all the players in advance that such a process is going to be performed. It doesn't guarantee zero mistakes but it's probably the only way that both parties can be satisfied to a certain extent.

[SpinningRat360]

hey pick a better username, be original for once

[XTG_7Z ¯\_(ツ)_/¯]

Originally posted by Grel:

hey pick a better username, be original for once

How about Grel1 or Grel2? Maybe Grel2017 or Grel1990. Hell, even Grel3033 is a better, original user name.

[ayebeesea]

Originally posted by Willy:

Originally posted by ayebeesea:

Crap idea because in many cases people will return and wonder what tf happened to there account, for example last summer i downloaded smite and played it for about 50 minutes and then uninstalled it because at the time it wasnt for me, fastforward to christmas of that year a friend got me to play and with his help i figured out how to play and have played ever since and have 1000+ hours

T.L.D.R- no

Would it really have been a massive problem to make a new account in that situation

50 minutes couldn't have netted you any gains worth keeping

You wouldn't have been losing much

except for the fact that i had convention 2015 tyr, maybe dont assume ♥♥♥♥

[High Functioning Zombie]

Originally posted by timmy the thicc ♥♥♥♥♥:

Originally posted by Willy:

Would it really have been a massive problem to make a new account in that situation

50 minutes couldn't have netted you any gains worth keeping

You wouldn't have been losing much

except for the fact that i had convention 2015 tyr, maybe dont assume ♥♥♥♥

its ok that skins sucks anyways,his new skins are much better also maby instead of deleting the account you cant chage there name (add a number behind it or . or somthing to make it differnt) tho the name ive been using has naver been taken before so i dont know how you feel about this