Changes to contest rules/policies

[Mirage]

Then both should have kept their own accounts and paid for them seperately. Accounts are not supposed to be shared between multiple people, whether they are married, brothers and sisters, friends, or aquaintances.

Why not? Married people share just about everything else in their life, sometimes including bank accounts with real money. Sharing a MMO game account is probably one of the least significant things they share in their lives, so it was probably an entirely natural thing for them to link both POL accounts to the same SE account, seeing as it lead to easier management of both accounts.

Not only does this make sense to do for married couples, but also if you are a parent, paying for game access for several kids. There's no reason to prevent one of the linked accounts from participating in events when they have a perfectly fine reason to link them, other than being a completely square person without any ability to be flexible or understand other people's side of a story.

[Vivik]

Contest should be available to every PoL account no matter how many are under one SE account. I have my mule and my main under the same SE ID and I too think it's pretty dumb I can only enter contests on one of them. It's not like I'm not paying for both, why not be able to enter on both?

and Analhelm please don't start your ridiculous tirades up again. You were just becoming bearable and I thought some of your previous posts had a snippet of merit again.

[Apie]

To answer the question, we got the security token (put our accounts under 1 SQEX acccount) the day it became available for purchase, WAY BEFORE they had any contests with that restriction. If we would have been told that we would have been limited in the contests, we would have never merged. We did what square said, get one to make our accounts more secure, didn't know it would screw us in the long run.

[Alhanelem]

Contest should be available to every PoL account no matter how many are under one SE account. I have my mule and my main under the same SE ID and I too think it's pretty dumb I can only enter contests on one of them. It's not like I'm not paying for both, why not be able to enter on both?

and Analhelm please don't start your ridiculous tirades up again. You were just becoming bearable and I thought some of your previous posts had a snippet of merit again.

I haven't "started up ridiculous tirades."
You're being very rude at the moment, making this personal like that.

We did what square said, get one to make our accounts more secure, didn't know it would screw us in the long run.

Though it seems like an exaggeration to me to say you're "screwed" by not having 2 chances to get a moogle suit / insert random event trinket here, I would have to concede that there was no way you could have known ahead of time how it was going to be set up. I would find it reasonable in this case that you should be granted an exception to seperate the accounts.

[Mirage]

SE granting exceptions? That's a good one.

We're more likely to see a global policy change than that.

[Mirage]

You claimed that SE accounts are not intended to be shared between married couples, without having any official sources backing you up. This implies that you think you know something that others don't know.

[wildsprite]

I agree with the OP, something should be done about this policy even if it is to allow some accounts to unlink and create new ones

and Alhanelem really needs to stop speaking up with opposition on every thread, he goes into threads and speaks opposition on things he claims he doesn't oppose and he does it often, its as if he is trying to start these flame wars he claims he is not

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[Sarick]

I gotta agree that I'm getting tired of Alhanelem +1 posting on every thread with his inevitable opposition to whatever the OP is saying.

A agree of all the players this some players seem to poke their nose in everything. Things that shouldn't affect them directly. They still try to stop others from getting rewarded fairly. Like others have said each account cost the same monthly fees they pay it shouldn't be locked to what region they're in or how many FFXI acounts are attached to the SE management account. The limit should be per FFXI account not just SE account. These aren't mules on a FFXI account they are separate accounts under an main payment management system.

If the accounts are fully merged cut the for extra FFXI andFFXIV fees or something. Obviously SE wouldn't give up money so the policy is wrong. The policy cheats full account PAYING people who merged their accounts END OF DISCUSSION!

Alhanelem is fighting a losing argument!

The majority of players obviously disagree with him. It's difficult to tell if some people come here just to upset people or have an alternative agenda. Ether way a lot of players talking really bad bad/ignoring them because of the comments they make on these forums. Alhanelem really shouldn't try to defend this bad policy and screw with others who pay extra for the right to own multiple accounts. It just shows how rude and unsympathetic people are to others who pay money for as Alhanelem said "In game trinkets!" If those trinkets are so minor it shouldn't matter if everyone was allowed to win per FFXI account.

[Alhanelem]

stuff

Perhaps you didn't read the GM's post above, but it's probably not a good idea to rekindle the flames. That's all I'm going to say.