Originally Posted by
pollysaid
Actually that's not true. I made my account in 2005. Abandoned it with nothing on it, the pet wasn't painted, basically no avatars. Literally nothing. I came back end of 2011. How it escaped the purge, I have no idea. However, I did want to play again years later and I'm thankful it wasn't gone even though it was basically empty because it was still my account. It meant a lot to me that it was still there.