Runescape Account Names

[bam y0u dead]

I've got a few accounts which I created a long time ago (around 2003). I just logged into them for the first time in over 6 years and it's made me create new usernames for them - does anyone know why this is. Slightly frustrating as the names were quite rare before

 

[Makkara]

Name clean ups got rid of inactive names a few years ago. Another one happening early this year.

 

yup they did a name wipe for inactive names.