Grinding Gear Games has joined a recent group of developers freeing up inactive character names. With the launch of The Awakening expansion this Friday, GGG will be taking a sledgehammer to the list of 50 million character names, freeing up inactive names so that newer players can get their hands on unique, unused handles. Character progress won’t be lost, however affected characters will be required to rename themselves once they log in.
The duration appears to be set to one year.
These inactive character names are generally simple common ones that we’d like to make available to our current players. When The Awakening launches on Friday, old names will be available. If you take the name of an existing character, then that user will be prompted to rename their character when they later try to log in to it. If you have logged onto any character on your account in the last year, then their names cannot be taken.
(Source: Path of Exile)
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