(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); I saw people talking about this in the rumored name change for PS4 thread. What good would a name change do if most of them are taken? I figured it's be worth a shot to start a petition.

Personally I have a name I'd like to get back that I haven't played on in 4 years.

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To me it seems a good idea as a lot of names are unfortunate registered with the intent of selling them on, so you get a lot of accounts that are redundant due to the owner not finding a buyer etc, these accounts could be used for legit gamers who want that name, to me i think a 5 year period of not signing in and having below X amount of trophies would suit better as some people have said already if i didn't sign in for 2 years due to moving house or limited time, i'd be pissed as hell if i lost my account with my 36 platinums that i worked hard to get.

However maybe there a possibility they could default all active names to a randomly assigned SONY name like "Inactive" and that would release the name to be used again without deleting the account, when the original owner of the account logged in again they would be able to choose a different name.

They already do this for some accounts

LOL @ people who actually think Sony wil simply delete an account because someone was too stupid to think of a good name in the fist place... They should've thought of a better/different AND/or different ID, you knew you was going to use it for a long long time dumbasses. Think.