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Horizons Account Deletion Process

Silent85Silent85 Member Posts: 77
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How long is it before horizons delete your account after faliure to pay your account as I have done that (DAMN SWGimage) thanks in advance

Oskeosuw Ionsuw

Chief Of Communications, Ahazi Server

Oskeosuw Ionsuw

Chief Of Communications, Ahazi Server

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  • Silent85Silent85 Member Posts: 77

    can anyone help me out here?

    Oskeosuw Ionsuw

    Chief Of Communications, Ahazi Server

    Oskeosuw Ionsuw

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  • AdrealAdreal Member Posts: 2,087
    no idea, but most mmorpgs it takes a while. I've quit one for almost a year and then have come back and my character's still there...

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  • SutexSutex Member UncommonPosts: 150

    its my understanding that EQ has never did a char deleation yet for any char. over lvl 1 even if the account has not been paid..

    I quit DAoC for a year one time and went back and my chars. were still there.

    But they normally say its 3months.

  • AdminAdmin Administrator RarePosts: 5,623
    Yes, it is simply bad business to delete characters.  It really helps a game company to get old customers back if they know they can re-enter the game where they left off.  I know that when I started playing DAoC again I only did it because I could jump back into my high level character.  On their end it costs nothing to keep that little bit of data on your account. image

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  • Regal_TRRegal_TR Member Posts: 249
    Actually it does cost them money if they need to upgrade to add more database space...

  • AdminAdmin Administrator RarePosts: 5,623
    Yes, but the cost of that is so minimal it would be in the pennies (per account) - which is why I wrote it off as virtually costless ;)  The data required to store your account is probably well under 1MB...which is a TON of information.  A good DB server like the one I use for this site (SQL Server 2000) can store many terrabytes of data, for a very cheap price.


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  • Clever_GloveClever_Glove Member Posts: 996


    Originally posted by Admin
    Yes, but the cost of that is so minimal it would be in the pennies (per account) - which is why I wrote it off as virtually costless ;)  The data required to store your account is probably well under 1MB...which is a TON of information.  A good DB server like the one I use for this site (SQL Server 2000) can store many terrabytes of data, for a very cheap price.

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    I wouldn't be so quick to call MS-SQL a good DB. ;)

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  • LypheusLypheus Member UncommonPosts: 82

    Apart from labelling SQL Server as "good" I agree with this. To add to the point, for PC specific details (i.e. isolated information which does not affect the world around it), you can easily export these to a backup DBMS and re-import then at a later date.

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