But, I digress. To my main point: Is there really any reason to actually play/keep an Eternal Realm character?
Time.
The largest draw of an eternal character is that it has permanence which tends to be more aligned with a person’s perception of their time relative to the games they are playing. Seasonal play is for the player that wants to play for a week or two and move on, which is a good model, but eternal play is for people who either enjoy playing very little at a time or who enjoy playing things that do not reset over time.
Keep in mind that 99.9% of gaming is “eternal” and seasonal gaming is really tied down to very few games with most of them having “eternal” overlaps, i.e. you earn a collectable during the season and keep it forever into eternity for all seasons in the future.
But I do wish there were a happy medium where you could select something at the start, a little checkbox, that says “Delete this character when the season ends.”
Like, yes please.