Runescape frees up dormant accounts and old character names are up for grabs

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Developer Jagex is freeing up millions of dormant Runscape accounts and in the process making once-taken character names available again.
66m character names out of the 220m player accounts created since the medieval fantasy MMO launched in 2001 are up for grabs. Character names now available include Lord_Mage, King_Elf, Fonz, EltonJohn and GaryBarlow, because why not?
This week 20 per cent of the dormant accounts - around 13m - were released. These included Banksy, ElloEllo and Cakelord. More will be in the coming weeks.
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