4.2 Housing Update

[MizArai]

Sadly your definition, my definition or any other player's definition of what is an alt doesn't matter. SE get to decide this, not us.

SE doesn't have a definition for an alt. And restricting housing to 1 house per server per account isn't defining an alt. Is the main the first character on the server? The most geared? The most played? There is no definition from SE on what would make an "alt" vs a "main".

[worldofneil]

Sadly your definition, my definition or any other player's definition of what is an alt doesn't matter. SE get to decide this, not us.

Does SE ever actually call them alts though? As far as I know, they only ever call them characters, they never give any sort of primary/secondary distinction.

So unless I'm mistaken by SE's definition there are no "alts" in the games, to them all characters are equal, alts are just a term we've added.

[Mithia]

Yoshi already stated, you can find it on reddit, that all existing house owners will not have their houses taken away from them and it'll be grandfathered in. So there is no need to worry about having to chose between houses or selling your houses now that you can. Eventually it will balance itself out anyway over a few years.

To all the ones who feel like its fair to take away another mans property, take a chill pill and accept that those people never did anything wrong, they never broke a rule or a moral ethic code, so its only fair that when the rules get updated they don't have to pay for the game developers their lack of foresight on the matter.

[Masekase_Hurricane]

How is an alt a 2nd class character? And why is my alt that I leveled and geared and worked my butt off for worth less than any other character?

You and I paid a pound/euro/dollar extra not the price of a full character. I too have the option of 8 characters and currently use 4 of them. Yet I only have a house on my main as I can't personally justify locking people out of houses, just so I can enter a house every so often on my alts. So no you shouldn't be able to lock out 14 other players from getting a house just because you pay an extra pound.

[LaylaTsarra]

Yoshi already stated, you can find it on reddit, that all existing house owners will not have their houses taken away from them and it'll be grandfathered in. So there is no need to worry about having to chose between houses or selling your houses now that you can. Eventually it will balance itself out anyway over a few years..

I would like to see it officially stated but yes I do believe this is and will be the case. The new restrictions will apply to new purchases and will in no way affect the older ones.

[Penthea]

Does SE ever actually call them alts though? As far as I know, they only ever call them characters, they never give any sort of primary/secondary distinction.

So unless I'm mistaken by SE's definition there are no "alts" in the games, to them all characters are equal, alts are just a term we've added.

My point still stands. If anyone gets to decide what counts as an alt and what doesn't, it's SE.

[MizArai]

You and I paid a pound/euro/dollar extra not the price of a full character. I too have the option of 8 characters and currently use 4 of them. Yet I only have a house on my main as I can't personally justify locking people out of houses, just so I can enter a house every so often on my alts. So no you shouldn't be able to lock out 14 other players from getting a house just because you pay an extra pound.

I pay my extra $2 for 8 full characters. Just because SE charges $13 for one character accounts that doesn't mean that we're saving $102 a month (the price of the one character account times 8 minus the two dollars extra we pay). Most MMOs allow you to have multiple characters.

[Masekase_Hurricane]

I pay my extra $2 for 8 full characters. Just because SE charges $13 for one character accounts that doesn't mean that we're saving $102 a month (the price of the one character account times 8 minus the two dollars extra we pay). Most MMOs allow you to have multiple characters.

Sorry $1/$2 still same point. Also it doesn't state you pay for 8 FULL characters it just states 8 characters. We already have mounts, minions and glamour that are locked by character or shared, so what makes housing any different.

[Siniztor]

Yoshi already stated, you can find it on reddit, that all existing house owners will not have their houses taken away from them and it'll be grandfathered in. So there is no need to worry about having to chose between houses or selling your houses now that you can. Eventually it will balance itself out anyway over a few years.

To all the ones who feel like its fair to take away another mans property, take a chill pill and accept that those people never did anything wrong, they never broke a rule or a moral ethic code, so its only fair that when the rules get updated they don't have to pay for the game developers their lack of foresight on the matter.

Any chance you can link us to this please

[Risu0042]

i'm sorry if anyone gets triggered, but i think it's slightly comical that YOU decide what the alt character is when you label it as your alt. it might be anything other than the first character you made, it might be the one you play the most, it might even be the one that owns the house. when you label something as your Alternative, it is the 2nd choice, it did come after your primary (choice, maybe not creation), you are dictating which one of your characters you are going to pick over the rest. For some people it might be hard, it might be asking which one of your children is the best but for most people there is that one character that is above anything else they have made and or played. But overall, YOU are picking your main, and your alts. you are saying who is number 1 and who comes after.