Multiple Login/Character Transfer

[Mirage]

Multiple logons per account is a potential loss in profit for SE. I could share my account with 5 friends and play with them, just claiming that we all live in the same house but have unique external IPs because our ISP is cool like that. It would bring the income per player from 12.95 a month to ~3 a month.

[Almalieque]

Multiple logons per account is a potential loss in profit for SE. I could share my account with 5 friends and play with them, just claiming that we all live in the same house but have unique external IPs because our ISP is cool like that. It would bring the income per player from 12.95 a month to ~3 a month.

I understand your concern, but that is easily remedied in the similar way that I provided a solution for the character transfer.

1. Allow players to pay multiple monthly charges (i.e. 12.95) for the ability to simultaneously log on with multiple characters.

2. Each additional monthly charge allows an additional character to be logged on simultaneously. For example, a player with four characters on one account can pay two 12.95 monthly charges for the ability to log on with any two characters at the same time.

That literally took me 15 seconds to think up. Besides, people already share their accounts and contrary to user agreement interpretation, the game is designed for internal/home sharing. In any case, that's neither here nor there. The concern of sharing is easily remedied with the aforesaid solution.

[Dragoy]

Besides, people already share their accounts and contrary to user agreement interpretation, the game is designed for internal/home sharing.

Hm, I can't see how the agreement could be interpreted in any other way, than “sharing the account credentials is allowed only between an under-aged child and their legal guardian”. Though I am of course aware of players interpreting a lot of things from the agreement in any way they want to. xd

Or rather, they don't interpret them at all. ^^;

I also never got the feeling of such a design being there... but well, that's me!


As for the suggestion, I'm not sure if I understand it right.

You want to be able to transfer Content IDs from a PlayOnline account to another?
I don't think I would support that.

Being able to log in with more than one character at a time on the same POL account, I probably would support. Without any changes to billing, it would obviously be a loss of money to the company. It's unfortunate that the game is so much about multiple accounts in the first place, or even multiple characters just for the storage.

I would possibly also support being able to deliver the certain items to other POL accounts, instead of characters on the same one. That is, as long as they are on the same SqEX account.
I'm not sure the restriction makes any sense since one is supposed to be one person on that account, and they can't, for example, take part in certain contests on more than one of those POL accounts. I guess there might be a bit of a contradiction somewhere there.

But I digress!


Transferring characters from a PlayOnline account to another: no thanks.

Being able to log in on multiple characters of a PlayOnline account simultaneously: yes please.

[Almalieque]

Hm, I can't see how the agreement could be interpreted in any other way, than “sharing the account credentials is allowed only between an under-aged child and their legal guardian”. Though I am of course aware of players interpreting a lot of things from the agreement in any way they want to. xd

Or rather, they don't interpret them at all. ^^;

I also never got the feeling of such a design being there... but well, that's me!

The game is designed to effectively do everything with one character, yet you are able to have up to 16(?) characters on an account. There is absolutely no reason to have that many characters (mules included). With the game being developed as a group effort as opposed to solo, there is no enticement to want to redo missions/quests just to have a separate character. The intent is a family plan. I doubt SE intended a family of 4 living together to have 4 separate accounts.

You want to be able to transfer Content IDs from a PlayOnline account to another?
I don't think I would support that.

Why wouldn't you support that?

Without any changes to billing, it would obviously be a loss of money to the company.

It would have to be changes to billing. There would be enough people participating in it to make up for any production charges.