[To the Devs] Character Transfer Service

[SHJcules]

SHJ approves of this message.

It is all too often that people, like me; with multiple personality disorder, create a multitude of characters from day one to help service and express ourselves. Then years later, as each becomes their own persona manifesto, it is asking to much to bind so much into one pixelated body. Much like how Superman/Clark Kent/Dean Cain are forced into only being at one place at a time, when eventually they must be torn apart and given their own lives.

..Cliches aside, I would really enjoy this feature personally. There is a plethora of reasons why it would be a welcome feature to many of us, each pertaining to ones own story stemming from their creation many years ago, when they were first born into Vana'diel.

[darkscyther]

i would like to see such services being implement as well as i have friends who are in the same situation as the author...

some of them quit because they cant get to play with their family memebrs as they are sharing the same account... thus to prevent such things from happening i hope SE would think through the service thoroughly

[GlobalVariable]

There is a problem here. Selling characters.

Because of this, I propose an alternative: purchasing 2nd login on the same account, basically a content ID upgrade, so that content ID would cost the full 12.95 like your 1st one instead of 1.00

[Alhanelem]

Will never happen, because then people will start selling individual characters on accounts.

[Dekoda]

As proposed, we still have the alternative of allowing two characters on the same account to be logged in simultaneously. I have no preference either way, I would just enjoy being able to play both of my characters at the same time in any way possible. It seems like many other people would prefer the option as well, and would readily pay a fee.

I chose the character transfer service method because that is the only thing currently proposed in the Square Enix Support Center FAQ (as shown in the OP). For the sake of feedback, Alhanelem, would you be for or against either 1.) Simultaneous log-ins and/or 2.) Character transfer service, if RMT countermeasures are employed?

There's a bit of discussion over RMT countermeasures in the topic, if there's anything I've missed that would still promote RMT activity feel free to bring it up for the sake of discussion.

[Lexin]

I would much rather see the ability to play 2 characters on the same account at the same time.

[Dekoda]

The simultaneously log in option may even be a bit more user friendly and easier to understand, that would probably make the developers less hesitant to implement something like this. That, and whatever takes less effort and creates minimal complications.

Like I said, though, either way works.

[GlobalVariable]

There is already a check to ensure the same character isn't logged in, and when I've re-logged in fast enough after a dc I've been able to /poke to my red dotted mule, so really should in theory only require some minor pol client changes and a change to the billing system to have 2 full price content IDs and 2 characters in game at once.

[Zyeriis]

There is already a check to ensure the same character isn't logged in, and when I've re-logged in fast enough after a dc I've been able to /poke to my red dotted mule, so really should in theory only require some minor pol client changes and a change to the billing system to have 2 full price content IDs and 2 characters in game at once.

Yes, I see no reason why theres the restriction. The restriction is tied pretty much entirely to playonline, they just need to flip a switch.

[GlobalVariable]

Yes, I see no reason why theres the restriction. The restriction is tied pretty much entirely to playonline, they just need to flip a switch.

Flipping a switch is oversimplifying a tad, but it shouldn't be excessively difficult to have it check a server side value for allowed characters instead of just checking if any are on.

I think they have problems with thier new programmers understanding what their old programmers made however so you never know...We'll have to wait and hope they decide to tell us if its possible.

I suspect there is some obfuscating or lack of commented code or both going on, with the number of things they tell us aren't possible even when examples of it already exist elswhere in game (assault tags and traverser stones come to mind).