Not sure how to word this or where to start...
But when I log in and I have nobody else online this is what I see.
(and believe me.. the farther down, it doesn't get any better)
I will start off where I hate when Jagex decided to reset the names of inactive accounts.
I miss seeing the names of all my former friends who haven't been online in 7+ years.
I would see their names and that alone would spark my memory and brings me back to the times we spent on Runescape together.
Can't do that now.
Me and player [#CFSWJ49HHD] don't go way back...
Miss seeing the username of my friend who has passed away and that sucks alone.
I am a person who I guess is a hoarder. I like the remember the good times and hold onto it.
That's why I have never removed anybody off of my friendslist. (there has be several exceptions over the decade)
Even people like I said, who haven't been online in 8 years. A few even 9.
I know they won't be back but I can't let go.
Even after Jagex removed their usernames. I still have a hard time deleting them.
I can't tell the difference if it's just their username that has been recycled or if their whole account is delete.
My old school friend recently had his first ever account re-activated.
A account he hadn't had access to in 8 years. That account was still around in Jagex's system.
Was a barely used noob account so there was no logical reason that they would still store that information.
So that makes me believe that unless your account get's deleted for rule breaking.
Then it's never gone.
With that being said...
What if I remove these invalid names today and one of them comes online for the first time in 8 years tomorrow?
That's what I hold on to.
I shouldn't. Nobody is coming back.
