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Closed Change this "24 hours deletion cooldown" thing.
make it a 10 minute cooldown and send us a confirmation email, or you could atleast introduce an option for an Accountwide IGN system or something. i know alot of people (including me) who wants to try a different class but wants to also keep their IGN and its getting really annoying.
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The 24 hour wait period is only for characters above a certain level (33 I think).
Though I would like to see something along the lines of a confirmation email.
Because of the legion system and how long these characters take to build up, I'd like to see longer wait periods or something else to protect against hacking.
I don't imagine you're building too many characters up to level 200 if you're still trying them out and then deleting them.
You've got a long road ahead of you if you're just deleting these characters instead of saving them for legion use.
My advice would be, stop getting so attached to a name and just go with anything that sounds good.
Now if you wanted to complain about character slots being too limited and hard to obtain more, you might have a point.
Account-wide IGNs will probably never happen. One way around this is to just pick a naming method.
For example, my friend has every single character follow the same Four letters for the first name, then a word that starts with S for the second half of the character.
The second word describes something about the class, like his Bishop is "Saint".
why is that? many MMO's (if not most of them) has a Family Name feature so people will know the user despite opening a different character.
i dont see how this is related to the topic. i had 3 characters at level 160 175 and 179 on my way to looking for a class to main and i didnt like any of their playstyles. they could atleast make this an optional security option in account settings or something. as far as i can tell this is an easy way for them to get my 15$ for a name change because i can think of a million other ways to handle this problem in 5 minutes, you can easily google this and see that many people also dislike this feature, and so does some of my friends.
sounds great, i'd use that right after finding a class i can have fun with.
It would be better to start playing now.
Because until you hit 5th job (Level 200) you haven't seen everything the class has to offer.
I hated my Main Class for years until I eventually worked my way up to 5th job one month.
This is actually all the more reason to not delete them. Legion makes all of your characters stronger based on your total level.
By deleting the higher level characters you're actually slowing your process in being able to progress.
You'll find a main faster if you just leave these characters where they're at.
Not to mention you won't have to go back and do it all over again later.
As far as having extra options that allow you to delete characters faster, possibly. As long as they're opt-in I don't see any issue with this.
So long as it's not possible for a hacker to swoop in and remove years of work in a matter of minutes.
At least with the current system, if they somehow get past your pin they would still need to either clear your characters manually or wait 24 hours.
well, i want to delete it now because i want to burn my new character anyway.
Waiting a day won't kill you. Most games have some kind of waiting period for character deletion nowadays anyway.
Repeatedly creating characters, putting days or weeks of work into them, and then deleting them just to recover the name, seems wasteful to me.
Here's what I'd do in your place:
Give all characters placeholder names. Like "TehuKanna" or "TehuArk".
Later, when you decide on your main, then use a name change coupon (either free from an event, or from Cash Shop) to change its name to your favored main IGN.
That way, you get to keep all the characters you've worked on, and you get to have your main named as you want.
As for removing or shortening the character deletion cooldown: the cooldown is there to protect you in case of someone malicious gaining access to your account, or in case of hasty decisions or actions you might regret given some time to think about it. As with most security measures, it's an annoyance in day-to-day activity. But if it saves you even once, it's worth it.
(I do feel that the minimum level for this cooldown could be raised. 33 only takes minutes nowadays.)
Let's be real here, having an option in your account settings on the site to forcibly terminate the account's connection to the server and/or lock it out would be far better to this end than "oh you have to wait a day to delete characters".
read my last comment.
That would be a useful tool (if only for the recurring "ID already logged in" errors), but it won't save your characters from deletion unless you're aware of the malicious person getting on your account the instant they do it.
I'd rather honestly see some form of two-pass verification that isn't a pin number.
I don't really fear being hacked, but extra protection can never hurt.
Both very valid points, and some form of actual 2FA would be great. I mean goddamn, if Roblox, of all things can do it, why can't nexon?
wont kill me sure, but not everyone has time to play everyday. this feature just took a day off my weekend and my 2x exp coupons for something that is completely unnecessary for me. i cant see how asking to delete my 1 day old character when i want to is too much to ask.
It's not like it's unique to this game. In fact the only games that I know of that don't have some kind of time delay between deletion and deletion are ones that haven't had a meaningful content update in six or more years and basically only exist to milk as much final profit out of as possible before finally pulling the plug.
You might have a bit of a point on the age of the character thing.
Perhaps the deletion setting should be adjusted.
Maybe only force the 1 day wait if a character is above level 60, when it can be added to legion.
Then also only enforce if the character is older than 1 week?
I'm sure these new rules would be acceptable for most.
Honestly though, given how important it is to have multiple characters. We really should be advocating for more security, not less.
How often do players find themselves deleting characters? In the past year I've deleted 2, maybe 3 characters.
I play almost every single day, 10 out of 12 months. It's not that big of a deal to wait one day for a feature that is rarely used.
as an old player i can understand having a wait time but there should be a method to expedidte it. for those who dont want to wait.
so what if it slows down progression in legion. getting to 200 takes a few days now.. vs months/years back then.