PSA: Gamigo is purging inactive RIFT characters from the Reclaimer shard – here’s how to save your toons

Gamigo has initiated a database cleanup process that will remove inactive characters from RIFT’s Reclaimer shard. The publisher has framed the upcoming purge as an action driven by account maintenance and data privacy standards.

Players who have dormant characters on the Reclaimer server must log into their accounts to prevent their characters from being permanently removed from the shard's rolls.

Protecting Inactive Characters

To keep characters from being wiped during the database maintenance, players simply need to log into their RIFT accounts. In a statement reported by MassivelyOP, Gamigo outlined the reasoning behind the cleanup process:

"As part of our continued commitment to data privacy, we will be clearing out our Reclaimer database of characters from accounts that have been inactive for […]"

Logging into the game flags the associated account as active, ensuring that any existing characters tied to that account on the Reclaimer shard remain safe from deletion.

Unspecified Thresholds and Deadlines

Several specific details regarding the character purge remain unconfirmed. Gamigo has not publicly detailed the exact duration of inactivity required to trigger character removal, leaving it unclear how many months or years an account must be dormant before its characters are included in the sweep.

Furthermore, an exact deadline for players to log in and preserve their data has not been specified. Because the precise timeline and inactivity thresholds are unknown, players seeking to preserve their RIFT characters on the Reclaimer shard are advised to log into their accounts as soon as possible.

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