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by olsgaarddk 1614 days ago
This reminded me of a recent experience on WeChat. I hadn't used it for a few years and recently tried to log in.

I was told, that my account had been deactivate due to inactivity and that it was against my agreement with Tencent not to use WeChat regularly. After that I had to check a checkbox promising to log in regularly.

Luckily I haven't paid for WeChat, and I don't need it anymore to keep in contact with friends, so I was far enough removed from the situation to laugh at it.

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To be fair, there is a known problem of social media / messaging accounts being hacked and reanimated by botters / scammers long after the actual account owners have stopped using them.

But it makes no sense at all for games.