[Thor]

Let's say they have that delete option. If Matt thinks he has the slightest chance of coming back in a near or far future, then he won't delete his account, won't he?

I'm willing to take that chance, with all the time and money (for some of them) they have put in this game, I'm sure none of them would be capable of pressing that delete button.

And no, our accounts and character are not our property, if they were, we could do whatever we want with them, take them home, sell them on ebay and etc and we can't do that. Everything in here is Zen's property and it's for her to decide, really...

Tell you what, name me 3 games on the net where you do have the option of hiding somewhere when you stop playing without having your account deleted and I will stop arguing about this, until then, I still think the retirement district - who was an original idea, at first - doesn't have his place anymore. And there's not only top levels in it either as far as I know.

Take Travian for example (the game TW was copied from, it's all the same except for the graphics), in that game, if you quit, you can delete your account but if you don't, it stays there for others to farm your resources, period. Nobody has ever sent a complain to the admins they wanted to be preserved from being attacked because they were only on a 1 month break...