Quote Originally Posted by Dragoy
I certainly can't say what their intentions were, but I don't think I would see the 16 slots per account indicating that.
It most certainly does. As mentioned, this game is designed to be played on one character. There is no reason to create another character outside of having a mule and/or crafting, in which both could have easily been handled without having an entire new and fully playable character.

While there might be exceptions in where people start duplicate characters on the same account with the full intention of playing both, that is the minority. The family plan concept is a prevalent practice that benefits everyone. Just as your local phone, cable, dish, etc. company discount multiple users within the same household, SE did the same exact thing.

If SE truly wanted a 1:1 ratio, then each character would be full price. Major companies such as Google and Sony even allow at least 2 downloads of digital purchases. Other organizations use MAC filtering to prevent sharing. Do I need to bring up Microsoft?????!?! There is absolutely nothing that SE has done to prevent sharing and everything to promote it.

You're confusing "CYA" statements with actual enforced regulations, similar to not authorizing 3rd party software. SE doesn't care if you use windower, the concerns are hacks, viruses, etc. SE doesn't want to be held accountable for any nonsense that you may have done.

However, rules are rules, but the current setup of the game does not indicate wanting a parent to pay for another account for his/her child to play. Because of that, it is easy to infer that SE doesn't want players to share their account information with other players outside of their intermediate family. SE doesn't want anything to do with people stealing, damaging or deleting your digital information.