Some people that play runescape maybe in the Military, and what if they got called out to go over seas. (Ex. You are a US Marine, and get called to go to Iraq for a year). Should your accounted be terminated because you were on duty? Or even if you just quit because of school, or part time job.. Think that is fair to them? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. People have paid Jagex money to keep there servers running, and they decide to quit, they dont deserve to get deleted. Your runescape Information is probabley 1 KB of space in there SQL, or Oracle DB (Dont know what they use).. IT TAKEs up very little space.. 1000 KB - 1mb
10000 KB - 10 MB
100,000 KB - 100 MB
1,000,000 KB - 1 GB
Lets say there are 3 Million registered Accounts taking up 1 KB Space.. 3,000,000 Divided by 1,000,000... = 3.. 3 GB Space is all we probabley take up... Now wow? Jagex cant afford a 40 GB hardrive for $40 USD?? I think not.. This is why they dont do it