also: if you just created an account that you want to keep, you have to login twice within 24h to actually activate it. this means that you can create the account, login, logout and login again

arb

Noobville17921 Posts

July 28 2008 00:27 GMT

i have one from like 3 years ago that still works i think..havent logged into it in a while though

Equinox_kr

United States7395 Posts

July 28 2008 00:48 GMT

It's weird though, does that mean that names that would've obviously been taken years ago (common ones like say, Zergling or Zealot or something) have people still logging on every few months to keep their account? o_O

Or does it just mean that the account dies to the user who originally held it and nobody else is capable of using it?

EtherealDeath

United States8366 Posts

July 28 2008 00:53 GMT

It's really weird, it removes your account about 3 months if you have been inactive, but after those 3 months I can't remake the old account o.O so its just permanently dead. Anyone else or is it just me?

SoMuchBetter

Australia10606 Posts

July 28 2008 01:15 GMT

On July 28 2008 09:48 Equinox_kr wrote:
It's weird though, does that mean that names that would've obviously been taken years ago (common ones like say, Zergling or Zealot or something) have people still logging on every few months to keep their account? o_O

Or does it just mean that the account dies to the user who originally held it and nobody else is capable of using it?

if the owner doesnt renew it then someone else will come along and snap them up.

Shauni

4077 Posts

July 28 2008 01:25 GMT

#10

Hm, are you sure it's 3 months? Because I just tried logging into an account that I'm entirely sure I haven't used since 2006 and it worked.

asel

Germany1601 Posts

July 28 2008 01:41 GMT

#11

Well i have the feeling they expired faster in the old days, nowadays i can log into a 3 year old ID and it still exists... Anyone shares that feeling?

Cloud

Sexico5880 Posts

July 28 2008 01:48 GMT

#12

I guess that after a while of using an account it becomes permanent.

Ra.Xor.2

United States1784 Posts

July 28 2008 01:49 GMT

#13

yeah blizz probly dosent bother to check or delete accounts nowadays

RoC)Ninjah

United States238 Posts

July 28 2008 01:53 GMT

#14

No the way it works is, if the account is availible and you make it, the you must be logged in for 2 hours in a 48 hour period. If you want to keep it from expiring, then you must log in once every three months. BUT, say your ID was something silly like asdftacos3957278. If the account is not remade, and you log into it outside of that 3 month period, its still yours, then after that log in, the process repeats itself with once every 3 months.

inertinept

Bangladesh1195 Posts

July 28 2008 01:53 GMT

#15

ok heres what it is: if you have had an acct for a long time and it has a lot of games on it, it becomes permanent and wont get deleted. If it is just a shitty acct that hasn't been used for a longtime, it will get deleted in the 3months.

thats how it goes.

red.venom

United States4651 Posts

July 28 2008 02:04 GMT

#16

On July 28 2008 10:53 inertinept wrote:
ok heres what it is: if you have had an acct for a long time and it has a lot of games on it, it becomes permanent and wont get deleted. If it is just a shitty acct that hasn't been used for a longtime, it will get deleted in the 3months.

thats how it goes.

This does seem to be kind of how it works. Though there are no permanent accounts. Seems more like they just take longer to expire.

Sigrun

United States1655 Posts

July 28 2008 02:28 GMT

#17

Yeah I have one really old account with the {} brackets and nearly 2000 games. I didn't touch Starcraft for like six-seven months yet it was still there.

NrG.Bamboo

United States2756 Posts

July 28 2008 02:31 GMT

#18

I thought it was after 3 months you can recreate an account of the same name. If you have an account thats extremely old and hasn't been used for 3 months you can still log in to it unless someone else tried to recreate the account.. then it belongs to them.

This is just what I thought, nothing is for sure :p

EDIT: Because I had plenty of old accounts with over 2000 games (and some with pretty "1" ladder ratings =[ ) that were recreated by other people who wanted to fuck with me after 3 months.

Jonoman92

United States9105 Posts

July 28 2008 02:52 GMT

#19

Could've just made an account and then read that msg that comes up but yea it says it's 3 months.

bustaBust

Canada469 Posts

July 28 2008 03:07 GMT

#20

Goto "create a new account" and it tells you all the rules for that. But I know it lasts longer than the 3 months that they claim. I have an account i haven't played on in about 2 years and I only log onto every 6 months or so to keep it active. One time that accounts stats got reset then like a week after I logged onto it my old stats came back.

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