Title sounds dumb (and possibly this whole post too). I can’t find the right word for it.
TL;DR: Please add a big and shiny and scary button that allows players to delete everything they have in Legacy (Progress, account-wide unlocks, all characters, stash, glyphs, runes, all items found, etc). Achieving similar effect as to joining a league/season but staying in legacy.
Long and boring version:
Hello, this has been suggested before I think, but I couldn’t find similar threads. I’m probably one of the very few people who prefers to play on legacy but wants an option to wipe everything whenever I feel like doing so.
I know people will just say “just go participate in the new league” or something. But I have some issues when it comes to that:
Quite busy IRL, so I doubt I will be able to even make that much progress. And even if I do, it’s most likely going to be the season is coming to a near end or something.
Related to #1, when the league ends, if I’m not mistaken, all characters made during the new league will be moved over to Legacy.
Related to #2, when it’s finally moved, it’s going to get mixed with my Legacy stuff having so much outdated/removed/changed items and crap ton of items in the storage, and everything my Legacy has accumulated over the years which I’m trying to avoid.
I “could” sell/drop all items in my storage and delete all existing characters in Legacy to achieve a similar effect. But I do have a LOT of items and it will take forever to clean up. And I don’t think it’s possible to delete everything anyways since there is no way to remove/spend crafting materials.
Some people might say “just play SSF”. Which I am not a fan of, as I want to be able to share the loot and other stuff I found across all my characters. I also mainly play CoF (Circle of Fortune), so “trading” isn’t something that I am concerned. Or “just play offline” which I also can’t do because I plan to play with friends.
I really would like to continue playing whenever, and without having to worry about league/season expiring or coming to an end. I have some friends too who also do not have much time to play and feels the same way as I do regarding this matter. The point of this post is for me/us to experience a “fresh start” no matter how long it takes to progress due to IRL circumstances. Also Legacy has already been convoluted with stuff…so yeah.
For example, Grim Dawn has an option to delete cloud saves. But I know Last Epoch handles this thing in entirely different way because servers and stuff. Or is there another method/ workaround that I am not aware of to achieve something similar to start over?
It doesn’t have to be really instant, having to wait a few business days to process the account to delete and wipe all progress would already be a good news. Although I doubt something like this could be implemented soon as there’s few days left until the update. But it would be really nice to have a feature like this in the future.
Personally, I think it’s a good idea. Especially because you can’t even do that on your own.
In PoE you could simply dump all your stuff and delete the characters to start fresh, even though it would be a huge hassle to do it.
But in LE you can’t do that. You have no way to dump your crafting materials. Nor any reliable way to spend thousands of them.
The only issue I could see with this would be stuff that was for sale in MG, but other than that it seems like a pretty straightforward database cleaning operation. Shouldn’t be too hard to do, although it’s probably not high priority either.
Alternatively, an easier way to do it would be to let legacy players create “leagues”. You would create a new one and you’d have a new stash for that “league”. Probably not as good because that doesn’t free any database space, quite the contrary, even with the character limit.
Either way, I see nothing wrong with making this happen, eventually.
Oh, I missed that part in the wall of text. My bad.
Yeah, not a bad idea, as long as it will be hidden/distinct good enough that someone doesn’t accidently delete their characters.
EDIT
This, I think, would be great to have in general, similarly to PoEs system of community leagues. Especially if next update would be in another year (let’s hope not).
I think it’s a good option to have. But if they’re unwilling to do this, the least they could do is allow tab deletion. This would make deleting all your stuff 1000x easier. I’ve suggested this before, and its a no-brainer. But for whatever reason, it’s not a thing.
i like giving player choices but i would want there to be a huge safeguard.
for starters you dont “reset legacy” only. its an account wide reset.
this feature is actually HIDDEN under some advanced settings at the character select screen.
you will also be required to manually type “I Agree” as part of the confirmation.
IT DOESNT END THERE. you will have to wait for a specified time. 2 days? 2 weeks? a month? depends on EHG. during that entire time if you chose to play the LE, whenever you get to character selection screen there will be an overlay message at the top “Account Pending Reset” with the time left shown. a button is available to cancel the reset (has a confirmation verification too).
once the period is over, the account is reset. the only thing that remains are any mtx rewards/purchases.
why all the hassle? this is for the benefit of EHG staff to prevent “friends” resetting a persons account forcing them to beg EHG for help to restore their account.
Yeah, safeguard is a must. That’s what I meant by “big and shiny and scary button” Because people will always find a way to “accidentally” delete their progress or something… (Like how???..)
This is also a good addition. Having a visual feedback is always a good thing.
IT’S JUST A PRANK BRO.
The prank:
In all seriousness. Glad to see more people that want this kind of feature. Being a filthy Legacy player like myself, this is something I really need. Legacy can get pretty convoluted over time. Having massively-changed, removed, reworked or added items adds a feeling of “it’s totally messy now”. Sometimes, I just want a simple reset button.
I don’t really like to promote my own post or do something similar even in real life, but if you find this kind of feature helpful, please vote the topic so EHG will hopefully notice and consider if it gets more and more recognition.
Thank you all for the feedback. Goodluck with the new update soon!
This I disagree with. Yes, safeguards are important. But if you want to avoid being pranked, there are easier ways to do this. Like having to confirm on the website, after introducing your password.
But having to wait days or weeks without being able to play LE at all, when al you want is to actually play LE, just with an empty stash/inventory, seems to go counter to that.
Not the same thing.
Firstly, if you still want a shared stash but you just want to start with an empty one, you’d join Solo Account Self Found. But that only works once. If a year later you want to reset again, you can’t because the mode always uses the same stash.
Secondly, you can want to get a fresh start but still play with friends. Or join MG. They’re not exclusive.
i understand that but for EHG’s best interest they will definitely want to make sure that they have 100% zero liability for the account reset.
based on my suggestion the player COULD still play albeit theres a notification message at character select screen just to remind them its pending a reset
Sure, but there are other options that are still safe. Your suggestion would be good for deleting the account, not for character clear.
Using 2FA and having to confirm on the site would be plenty safe.
Or they could just create “stash realms”. You create a new stash realm for your character and now you have an empty stash and new characters for that realm will share that stash, but if you want you can go back to the previous realm and your other characters are still there (as long as you don’t go over the character limit overall).
i specifically mentioned that instead of clearing a character, it would be an outright account reset feature. thus the tedium. the OP seems to be happy enough with my suggestion tho so i guess i’ve got nothing further to add
Hi, originally I wanted it to be just for Legacy only so the account isn’t entirely locked. Also maybe so that the player can play a little bit in Season while waiting for process to complete (Although this kinda doesn’t make sense).
Yeah, surely there would be an issue of somehow deleted account that wasn’t authorized or were done by the actual account owner due to whatever reason. You are right, I also don’t want the blame to fall to EHG due to player negligence in taking care of their account. So implementing this would be tricky. Maybe add a 2FA or email to verify and stuff, I don’t know.
Since we’re talking about risks and waiting time anyways, I think this would be the best solution (Sorry I kinda read this part late). This way, there will be no need to wait, no need to risk deleting account progress and stuff. Just allow players to have a “Legacy” of each major update to keep things clean. I have no idea however though if this is going to be expensive on EHG’s part. I mean, “new season = new database” kind of thing. Even if they have to limit the number of times you can do this per major update which would’ve been already fine. Maybe 2-3 times maximum. No one’s gonna and would want to reset 10+ times just because the tutorial boss didn’t drop them a unique item, right? right???.
Because people will always find a way to “accidentally” delete their progress or something… (Like how???..)