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Subject: Will auto account deletion ever return?

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There is an account i've wanted for a while, it has never made a post, the only day it logged on was the day it was created and the gamertag attached is a dud one.

I just find it annyoing that it is being held on to even though it has no use at all.

  • 12.09.2011 2:18 AM PDT

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So you want to make another account with the user name of an account that is currently not being used?

I don't think it will be coming back any time soon.

  • 12.09.2011 2:22 AM PDT

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Posted by: ian11214
There is an account i've wanted for a while, it has never made a post, the only day it logged on was the day it was created and the gamertag attached is a dud one.

I just find it annyoing that it is being held on to even though it has no use at all.
The community does not have the answer you are looking for. I would suggest contacting Achronos via private message, but don't expect him to share more than he did in the following post.

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  • 12.09.2011 2:41 AM PDT

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  • 12.09.2011 2:43 AM PDT

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I can't help but wonder if it was disabled due to Bungie going dark, and them understanding that a lot of people will choose to not visit for at least a year or so, and that when they do return, they'll probably want to have their accounts still available.

  • 12.09.2011 2:49 AM PDT

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Posted by: SteroidKloud
It should never have been imlemented in the first place. My account was hijacked and when I got it back through more than a year of calling and figuring out it had been deleted. I was like NOOOOOOOOOOOO. It was an Elder Mythic member called Jesse Federico. You may remember it.

RIP. 2001 - 2009.


There there, its ok. I lost Bungie1 the same way :(, now someone else has the name >_>.

RIP. 2001 - 2005.

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[Edited on 12.09.2011 3:02 AM PST]

  • 12.09.2011 3:01 AM PDT

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Posted by: SteroidKloud
It should never have been imlemented in the first place. My account was hijacked and when I got it back through more than a year of calling and figuring out it had been deleted. I was like NOOOOOOOOOOOO. It was an Elder Mythic member called Jesse Federico. You may remember it.

RIP. 2001 - 2009.
Wow. You've been around that long? And here I thought you were only around a year or so. :\

  • 12.09.2011 3:25 AM PDT

Don't -blam!- with Kerser!

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Posted by: SteroidKloud
It should never have been imlemented in the first place. My account was hijacked and when I got it back through more than a year of calling and figuring out it had been deleted. I was like NOOOOOOOOOOOO. It was an Elder Mythic member called Jesse Federico. You may remember it.

RIP. 2001 - 2009.
Wow. You've been around that long? And here I thought you were only around a year or so. :\


Haha. Yeh. I have been here from the beginning (Of Halo). Many newer accounts have. Alot of things tend to go wrong though.

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There there, its ok. I lost Bungie1 the same way :(, now someone else has the name >_>.

RIP. 2001 - 2005.

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  • 12.09.2011 4:41 AM PDT
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Posted by: SonicJohn
I can't help but wonder if it was disabled due to Bungie going dark, and them understanding that a lot of people will choose to not visit for at least a year or so, and that when they do return, they'll probably want to have their accounts still available.
This is a good reason. This and Achronos' wanting to preserve the history of members that have passed on.

Either way, I don't know why that feature was ever put in to begin with. I mean, the posts are still there, just not the names (Anonymous User (Deleted)). Having a name can't be that much of a hindrance on the servers, so why delete the name but not the posts under that name?

  • 12.09.2011 5:08 AM PDT

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There's no way to solve your problem. Achronos doesn't really help on these situations and I highly doubt that the system will change anytime soon.

  • 12.09.2011 5:29 AM PDT

I'd hate to see some of our friends that have passed away lose their accounts. Even worse would be someone grabbing them trying to be funny or to piss people off. I know that sounds horrible, but people have done much worse.

  • 12.09.2011 5:30 AM PDT

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  • 12.09.2011 7:08 AM PDT
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It would be cool if we could just change our usernames within a limit of how many times we can do it.

  • 12.09.2011 7:40 AM PDT

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Posted by: halo3genius
It would be cool if we could just change our usernames within a limit of how many times we can do it.


Pretty sure upon promotion to Ninja you are offered a one time opportunity to change your username.

  • 12.09.2011 9:59 AM PDT
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Posted by: halo3genius
It would be cool if we could just change our usernames within a limit of how many times we can do it.


I wish I could change my user name. I hope bungie makes it an option in the future.

  • 12.09.2011 10:01 AM PDT

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We as a community do not know the answer to that, we don't decide Achronos does.

  • 12.09.2011 4:21 PM PDT

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Posted by: ian11214
There is an account i've wanted for a while, it has never made a post, the only day it logged on was the day it was created and the gamertag attached is a dud one.

I just find it annyoing that it is being held on to even though it has no use at all.


I'm having exactly the same problem.

  • 12.09.2011 4:26 PM PDT
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I am not having this problem.

Also, RIP my old account. Abandoned for one that I liked better.

  • 12.09.2011 4:31 PM PDT

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  • 12.09.2011 4:34 PM PDT

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Posted by: halo3genius
It would be cool if we could just change our usernames within a limit of how many times we can do it.


I wish I could change my user name. I hope bungie makes it an option in the future.


nope. they have good reasons for not doing that

  • 12.09.2011 4:38 PM PDT

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  • 12.09.2011 4:39 PM PDT

I lost an account from May 2008...I don't miss it.

  • 12.09.2011 4:51 PM PDT
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Posted by: zoobkillerninja

Posted by: Elem3nt 117

Posted by: halo3genius
It would be cool if we could just change our usernames within a limit of how many times we can do it.


I wish I could change my user name. I hope bungie makes it an option in the future.


nope. they have good reasons for not doing that


Actually they never gave a flat-out no and Achronos mentioned it as a possibility that may occur in the future though he has no current plans of integrating username changes for users at the moment. So your statement fails without any proof.

[Edited on 12.09.2011 5:19 PM PST]

  • 12.09.2011 5:13 PM PDT
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It would be nice if accounts autodeleted yet their usernames would remain on their title bars after deletion (while still clarifying the user is deleted). This way the name you want to get would be open, yet no history of the older *your name* would be deleted.

  • 12.09.2011 5:33 PM PDT