Non-Persistent?
Call me picky, but I prefer MMORPG policy that ensures you keep your characters, complete with names, items, etc., even long after you’ve left the game. I realize this is a drain on resources, but data storage is cheap. When it comes to names I believe there are better solutions to name-squatting than recycling.
If my characters are not persistent while I’m gone, I feel less compelled to return.
I was a bit surprised to get a couple of emails from Blizzard earlier this week, changing some of my character names. They’re usually better at the persistence than other companies. There’s obviously been a mistake in sorting out which names were available first, because these characters were created ~2004-2005. So why am I getting “oops this name was taken” emails as if I’d just created the characters recently? What’s odd is I haven’t heard of anyone else having their character names recycled by Blizzard this way.
I filled out a gm-feedback email, but never got a response.
Sure it’s not a phishing exercise? I’ve seen reports of a few similar scams to that recently… although if they had your account name, that seems less likely.
The email headers checked out and no strange links, plus I’d think it’d be an odd phishing attempt to use donotreply emails (not that it would surprise me if someone did).
At worst if the sender was spoofed it could be a practical joke to make me wanna re-subscribe to check on my characters, but that’s not going to happen right now anyway.
And d’oh, Donna I think that’s the worst temp Gravatar icon yet that it generated for you. It’s all… looking very unhappy.