Stolen Names, Just for Fun or out of Spite...
First of all, I don't know in what section of the forums this should go, so I'm hoping for someone more experienced in whining to come in and nock me on the noggin for being such a n3wb.
I want to know if there's a procedure or a way of punishing those people that like to steal the names of other players, just for the fun of it or out of spite for someone. By stealing I mean the following; creating a character with a well known name in the realm and never ever logging in or using the character. Is that allowed? I mean, isn't there some sort of punishment for those people?
I played in Deathwing and I won't say I was popular, but my character's name was known. Then, when the Lordaeron realm opened up I was excited and decided to make a toon there as well. I proceeded to create my character, same look as always and the name as well... just to find out it was already taken.
Someone logged into Lordaeron before me and created a toon with dare I say MY name.
I continued to create my character despite the fact that my name was taken, I added the character who took my name to my friends list and waited....waited...and waited for him or her to log in. It never happened.
Is there any way, at all, to reclaim the name?
I bet it has happened to some of you as well, and I'm pretty sure you'd like your name back.
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There was nothing like that. All that happened was the mentioning of the possibility a clean-up might be made occasionally with characters of level 10 or lower. No specifics, no date, nothing about "popular names," not even a statement that it would in fact be a thing
Warmane's premium membership grants exclusion from database clean-up of inactive accounts, and taking from the guideline there is no exception made for Lordaeron regarding this feature.
Would you please confirm that characters of level 10 or lower will not be deleted in Lordaeron provided they belong to a premium account? Thank you very much in advance!
PS: Just for the record, I am not a name hoarder, in fact, I do not even reach the 10 character limit. However, due to work and a busy life, I can't play all my characters at once, and I would not like any of them to be deleted just because a few so-called "popular names" got stolen, as it is subjectively claimed by some, despite the fact the legitimacy of the concept itself is still arguable, since character naming is FCFS anyway.