Yoshi please support linked account benifits

[Taika]

Back in my days of XI, my husband and I were told it would benefit us both greatly to link our accounts via SE ID.

Who told you this? How would it benefit you?

All your problems are caused by yourselves as you're using the system in a way it's not supposed to be used.

Square Enix accounts are supposed to be personal, as are game accounts. You can't have one SE account in the name of both of you - that should have been the first hint to tell you you're not supposed to share it.

I'm sorry you made the mistake and it can't be undone, but the fault isn't in the system.

[Imoen]

Who told you this? How would it benefit you?

All your problems are caused by yourselves as you're using the system in a way it's not supposed to be used.

Square Enix accounts are supposed to be personal, as are game accounts. You can't have one SE account in the name of both of you - that should have been the first hint to tell you you're not supposed to share it.

I'm sorry you made the mistake and it can't be undone, but the fault isn't in the system.

Actually, if I remember correctly it was so you could have multiple accounts (playonline ids) that you paid for all on one SE account, the problem isn't with what this person did, the problem is they changed which account you use. From "Playonline ID" to "Square-Enix account" The Square enix account used to only be for your transactions. (At least if my memory serves me correctly this is how it was... was a long time ago.)

The idea being you could manage the transactions through 1 account as apposed to logging into every single one to change info etc....

(ugh sorry if this is old w/e I'm not awake yet, didn't notice the other 2 pages at the time.)

[ShinigamiKayla]

you do know its the Marketing department and not Yoshi-P who handles this kind of stuff right o.O

[Kyri]

you do know its the Marketing department and not Yoshi-P who handles this kind of stuff right o.O

Im aware that Yoshi didn't cause this, it's my hopes that the XIV team will see the issue in this and possibly counteract it rather then playing it like XI did

@taika
There were benefits back in XI for SE ID linking, they wanted people to do it as it also made it harder to sell your accounts. It was a long time ago.. the only googled benefit I could find in a few moments notice was a POL statement:

Special In-Game Bonus
Users who complete the transfer process prior to August 31, 2011 will be rewarded with a special in-game item for FINAL FANTASY XI. Additional details are available here.

@ other posts I can see why SE wouldnt want to unlink accounts as it was originally intended to help with security tokens and to keep from selling accounts but my hope isn't just to try to break a account, it's trying to find a simple solution.

Ex: If a SE ID had 2 FFXI accounts and/or two XI accounts(Not alts) linked to it, giving the option to allow two submissions onto surveys or online contests, two possible beta invites, two possible lodestone post options.

[Taika]

@taika
There were benefits back in XI for SE ID linking, they wanted people to do it as it also made it harder to sell your accounts. It was a long time ago.. the only googled benefit I could find in a few moments notice was a POL statement:

Yes I remember this, but I don't understand why you didn't just make two personal SE accounts and link your characters with those, as you were supposed to do.

[Kyri]

Yes I remember this, but I don't understand why you didn't just make two personal SE accounts and link your characters with those, as you were supposed to do.

One token to rule them all.. In fairness I got the token when it was first released in a pretty little box they mailed to me separately, right after my XI boyfriend moved to canada to live with me and we joined up our accounts under SE's advice. As neither of us had no reasoning to try to sell our accounts, we drank the koolaid that was promised to be yummy, we didn't realize we would from then on only be allowed half a drink each. Whats done is done yes, its just my hope that Yoshi might see the flaws not originally stated by SE. Had they said "If you link up you can only apply once to anything we do and any contests", we wouldn't have done it. At the time, they made it sound quite promising.

[Taika]

There is a reason you can't transfer game accounts between SE accounts: it makes selling characters more difficult and prevents characters being removed from hacked accounts, for example.

There are more reasons for not allowing to transfer game accounts than there are for allowing it, as the system works just fine when used as intended.

[Kirito]

There is a reason you can't transfer game accounts between SE accounts: it makes selling characters more difficult and prevents characters being removed from hacked accounts, for example.

There are more reasons for not allowing to transfer game accounts than there are for allowing it, as the system works just fine when used as intended.

That's true, it could lead people to sell their extra legacy accounts...

[ChiyoKatsui]

It doesn't really combat selling of accounts. People who sell accounts would know better than to link 1 with 1. Even I thought of that back when they first started the SE accounts.

[Taika]

I understand why you both linked your XI accounts to SE accounts, I just don't understand why you both didn't get your own SE account as you were supposed to do (as the accounts are personal). You would have gotten the same benefits without all this trouble.