But that's the thing, you can't assume either way based on your personal opinion.
That said, I know that anytime they announce a purge, since it's not actually done every thirty days or anything close to that, there are pages worth of people saying they're excited because they've been waiting x amount of time to get a specific name. So by everything I've seen, which I admit is nothing close to hard data, it's still really popular.
Also, as someone pointed out before, if you make it free it makes people so much more likely to do it and to increase the workload to the point where money will be lost. By making people pay for it, automated or by hand, it means that the amount of people is down some and even if it's still a massive amount of people, no money is lost in the process.
And then, honestly, there's also the security issue. If someone hacks into your journal and renames it, then you can't ever get it back because renaming takes out any ownership you ever had. So if renames were free, sadly hacking into journals might be even more common or at the very least, ever getting your journal, and all it's content, back would be nearly impossible since the first thing they'd do would be to rename it. The cost off puts renaming it, maybe even for long enough that they can get their journal back. It's no the reason behind the cost but it's a reason I would always bring up to say no to free renames.
Re: ~jumping in here.
That said, I know that anytime they announce a purge, since it's not actually done every thirty days or anything close to that, there are pages worth of people saying they're excited because they've been waiting x amount of time to get a specific name. So by everything I've seen, which I admit is nothing close to hard data, it's still really popular.
Also, as someone pointed out before, if you make it free it makes people so much more likely to do it and to increase the workload to the point where money will be lost. By making people pay for it, automated or by hand, it means that the amount of people is down some and even if it's still a massive amount of people, no money is lost in the process.
And then, honestly, there's also the security issue. If someone hacks into your journal and renames it, then you can't ever get it back because renaming takes out any ownership you ever had. So if renames were free, sadly hacking into journals might be even more common or at the very least, ever getting your journal, and all it's content, back would be nearly impossible since the first thing they'd do would be to rename it. The cost off puts renaming it, maybe even for long enough that they can get their journal back. It's no the reason behind the cost but it's a reason I would always bring up to say no to free renames.