[Question] Why did they switch...

[cbk1994]

The reasoning I remember hearing was trials were registering all the good account names and never even playing. Rather than let the trials change their account name, they made community names (since changing an account name would reset in many, many errors occurring on different servers).

It's a really stupid reason, and it's not worth getting a good community name if it costs you all the problems the community name system presents.

[salesman]

Trial accounts without ever having a subscription should just be deleted after x amount of inactivity.

[Crow]

Originally Posted by salesman

Trial accounts without ever having a subscription should just be deleted after x amount of inactivity.

Yep. That would be way better. And it was still not a problem. Stupid account names are better than this ****ty system.

[cbk1994]

Originally Posted by salesman

Trial accounts without ever having a subscription should just be deleted after x amount of inactivity.

That would still cause problems with some scripts, though. Imagine creating a new account and finding it jailed on Era by some crazy staff member for 5 years.

[Crow]

Originally Posted by cbk1994

That would still cause problems with some scripts, though. Imagine creating a new account and finding it jailed on Era by some crazy staff member for 5 years.

Hmm, that's an argument. How about a global event occuring on every server when an account is deleted? Sounds a tad stupid, but it might be possible, eh?

[cbk1994]

Originally Posted by Crow

Hmm, that's an argument. How about a global event occuring on every server when an account is deleted? Sounds a tad stupid, but it might be possible, eh?

I wouldn't be opposed to something similar to this.

[salesman]

Yea, that would be a problem.

Better to just make people create salesman2 then instead. Anything's better than the current account system.

[Frankie]

Originally Posted by salesman

Trial accounts without ever having a subscription should just be deleted after x amount of inactivity.

I thought it was already like this.

I remember trying to register the account Frankie, but I never could years and years ago. about 2 - 3 years ago I was able to though.

[Hiro]

Originally Posted by Frankie

I remember trying to register the account Frankie, but I never could years and years ago. about 2 - 3 years ago I was able to though.

because they deleted all of the old inactive trial accounts that people were hording but not upgrading, shortly thereafter the new account system was put in place