RvW is on point with most thing. I just never understand why "deleting" an account is needed. WHat people really want is to clean the account. Or perhaps 'Closed account' is a better term.

To explain, I will use chess.com as an example.
Clicikng on a profile gives you this http://www.chess.com/disabled_account
Otherwise their username is kept, and post, games etc. displays the username. Next to their username is a symbol, representing a closed account. (Say instead of the Clan logo on WL,)

I do not intend to get my previous account back guys, so do not worry im fine with it, and i think RvW may have the answer: delete an account in warlight is not possible because of game datas. But anyway I am pretty sure to have read somewhere that you have a right to delete your account anywhere on the web, and that websites not providing this right are against the European Law, if I could have deleted my account it would have been better, but instead I only could make sure to lose my password and game id to be sure i could not log on it.

How about hiding account from site and simply use a secret link plus password to reactivate ?

This way, if you really want to get back account, the staff would share secret link.
About deleting information, I am not sure.

Many mmos have trade acounts threads that are legal.


At most, complete deletion will just keep the meta data as level and progression while wiping all else. Unless you also wnt to return to level 1.

An even better solution is to store info on offline hard drive/server if concerned with privacy. 5,10,20 years is deletion. Some MMOs delete account after 6, 12, 24 month.

Some MMOs will delete account and permanent purchases after a month.

Edited 9/21/2015 02:10:52

But anyway I am pretty sure to have read somewhere that you have a right to delete your account anywhere on the web, and that websites not providing this right are against the European Law

WL does not follow european law, so whether that's true or not (I've no knowledge on about that) it doesn't matter. Warlight is based around american law, and you've no 'right' to delete your account afaik.

argh Muricans are evil!

Edited 9/21/2015 02:08:15

But anyway I am pretty sure to have read somewhere that you have a right to delete your account anywhere on the web, and that websites not providing this right are against the European Law

It's not the account itself, only the privacy-sensitive information. For instance, a few weeks ago a dating-cheating site got a lot of publicity because their "premium service" (where you had to pay money to get your information deleted) didn't actually delete things. Under European law (to which that, American, site wasn't subject anyway), they couldn't have charged money; anybody could simply have told them they wanted to use their legal right to require the deletion of personally-identifiable information (such as email addresses and real-world addresses, probably date of birth too, etc.). The remaining stripped and mostly-empty account (possibly still containing non-personally-identifiable information, such as for instance account creation date) would still remain however.

Keep in mind that European law cannot apply to non-European websites (if anybody knows any US politicians: please talk some sense into them; the way it completely and utterly violates the concept of "jurisdiction" and abuses "meh, we'll still get away with it" explains a big part of the current unpopularity of the USA, even among its theoretical allies). In a way, consider yourself a "tourist" when visiting non-EU websites; when you actually go on vacation to the US, EU law doesn't apply either.