Suprodo a dit :

Some sites/ games delete inactive accounts to keep the servers from clumping up with too much memory so players can experience minimal lag in-game. I absolutely support the deletion of inactive accounts that fall under the requirements such as:

• No email tied to the account
• Less than a week played
• 50 or less gathered cheese

If Transformice were to delete inactive accounts and free them to the public, I think it would be brilliant to keep those old usernames locked away only for users who change their usernames. It could motivate players to spend some money into the name change, which is also good for the admins.

• People don't want to play Transformice all the time so they play another game.
• They would not have a computer anymore with the account on it for some reason, but then they get it again.
• People had to go away from the computer for long for some reason cause other people won't let them.

tiaratown a dit :

I don't support it. What if the people who are innactive come back later? Have you thought about THAT? :D

taxical a dit :

I think that the "NAMES" of unactive account should be changed and free to be taken, but the accounts no. They should just change the acc's named to A252526 or something, all accounts that haven't logged ons ince 2013 or something

Fewfre a dit :

Since my thread got closed for being to similar (not surprised), posting my suggestion for this here (note: this suggestion DOES NOT delete accounts, but simply frees up names):

Should inactive usernames be up for grabs?
Topic: Should inactive accounts have their username (display name) up for grabs, both for new players and in anticipation for the upcoming name-change update?

Active (must meet at least one criteria)
-Logged in within 6 months of last login date
-High stats (over 50 cheese?)
-High total play time (over 5 hours?)
-Fraise purchased (real life money invested perms the account)
-Email validated

*All of these must be false for an account to be considered inactive; thus if even one of these is true, an account will be safe*

What happens to these accounts
These accounts would still exist (not deleted), just their name would be taken. Think of it like a reverse name change; instead of a name of your choice, you get some random jumble of numbers or something for your name. Or maybe your old name would have some special character added before it (kinda like how extinction accounts have a "+"; maybe a "-"), and upon logging in these players would be prompted for a new name (a free name change for the hassle; not that many of these accounts would ever log in again in theory). How they would log in depends on how the update is done; many games have your original username stay the same, with just the "display name" everyone sees changing. If Atelier 801 chooses this method, then removing names would be easy. There's a few ways this could go, all while preserving the original account.

The Logic
The criteria for inactivity are meant to ascertain what users have truly invest themselves into the game, and are most likely to log in again at a later date. And by only taking the game and not deactivating / deleting accounts, this prevents players from losing their account, but instead just their name. While this still might suck, it isn't hard to meat at least one the the above criteria, which would make your account safe from this. This also wouldn't remove your name by default once all of the criteria is met, but only make the name available to be taken; until then the name would remain safe.