Quote Originally Posted by Midareyukki View Post
...And it's not like their decision doesn't harm them. Square Enix isn't stupid. It wasn't Yoshida who randomly came up with the idea, it wasn't even one of their interns. It was a collective decision, and while it likely is the most extreme, it's also the most immediate and guaranteed fix. This is going to hurt Square, this is going to upset quite a lot of people. But this is also going to ensure that the game isn't screwed over in the long term. And if it removes incentives from people taking your account details, then that's a good thing. Maybe in the future they may reconsider it, create a workaround, talk to people and so on. But for now, this is the avenue that they've chosen, and while it's a sucky sacrifice, it's a sacrifice that seems to be paying off as much (if not more) than it's hurting.
And it may well be paying off, but unless the playerbase does speak and reasonably says "well this sucks, and we hope you can improve it" then SE will have little impetus for improving it. Gifting of mounts, minions, and emotes is lost to us forever.

I think it's quite reasonable they take their immediate action, for whatever real reason and harsh as it may be, but I do want them to sit down now and put some effort into this still so that things can be improved for us genuine players. Be that an increase in the time a friend needs to be in place, future delivery of an item, requiring OTP, checking IP address history, linking in the lodestone APIs on mount/minion possessions, or whatever it may be. Not that they are addressing a supposed problem, they should be able to work this out.