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Loviatar · Apr 24, 2006, 10:01 PM // 22:01

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Originally Posted by Jagflame

And the family situation doesn't work either because if they merged five then they could only get on at one time and sharing GW with four other people would suck for any active player. .

hi.

next time read it.

here is what i made clear.

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a family has 5 accounts but actually play at different times.

Lord Iowerth · Apr 25, 2006, 12:18 AM // 00:18

I think a huge assumption is being made here (partly by Lovi, and sorry man I usually agree with you

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They leaked the info about purchasable character slots BEFORE the release of factions, just as Mordakai mentioned, to prevent people griping about having to buy >1 copy to use on each account they have. ANet is not stupid, they know people have multiple accounts ...

Is ANet taking a potential monetary hit to offer slots? Most likely, even at $10 a pop, they would have definitely made more money without this offer and i'm sure lots of people would own multiple copies of Factions as well.

Which reminds me: the other assumption here is that people with >1 copy of GW:P are going to buy GW:F for each account. I have 2 accounts, and I wasn't planning on getting factions for both, and know several who feel the same way. And yes, I know that the group of myself and 3 or 4 of my friends does not necessarily constitute the majority of Guild Wars players

Bottom line? Merging is feasable while limiting abuse, desired by alot of players, and can be done with minimal projected future sales losses by ANet.

Loviatar · Apr 25, 2006, 01:04 AM // 01:04

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Originally Posted by Lord Iowerth

Bottom line? Merging is feasable while limiting abuse, desired by alot of players, and can be done with minimal projected future sales losses by ANet.

assumption from posts here and there.

people with more than 1 account fall into mostly 2 catagories.

family playing together who will upgrade all chapters purchased

hardcore players who will upgrade to avoid grinding the same character on an added slot.

a lot of the family ones will upgrade as long as they keep having fun playing together.

pokesoul · Apr 25, 2006, 02:05 AM // 02:05

I posted a long topic in the main channel for the char slots. I said there that a password would be required to merge the accounts and so on. If you are dumb enough to hand out your password than sorry bout your luck you got screwed. People stealing accounts would be much easier to handle...if they stole it and merged it than there would be no way to deny stealing the account.

Muse of Shadows · Apr 25, 2006, 02:29 AM // 02:29

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Originally Posted by twicky_kid

Cd-keys you have entered can be seen in full from the edit account, manage keys screen.

Rong. The CD-Keys associated with an account are NOT listed anywhere in the account information - only the effects they give are listed, as in, this account has a collectors eddition key, so your hands glow.
My guess is it would take a DAMN GOOD hacker to access the CD-Keys for accounts without acualy having the owner give them the key.

As far as security is concerned, there isnt a problem. How merging accounts should work is:

You have the option of merging existing accounts by, or accounts created by a certain date as a ONE-TIME effect. Once merged, they cannot be seperated.

You must know the email, password, and CD-Key for each account you wish to merge, and once an account has been merged, you can no longer merge it with another account - other than future chapters. All account merging (for those with more than two accounts) needs to be done at the same time.

When merging, you fill in the email, password, and CD-Key for each account you are merging, and designate one of the emails as the one the merged account will be linked to.

Email confermation should be given, not for security reasons, but to make shure the person realy wants to merge the accounts.

Give a 1-week period, or whatever is required for ArenaNet to complete the merge, and then you will have one account. During this time, I am unshure whether you will be able to play any of the accounts or not, as I dont know exactly what proccess ArenaNet will use to merge the accounts, although I would hope at least one of them remains accessable. I for one, am willing to wait a week or two to play again if merging accounts becomes available.

Loviatar · Apr 25, 2006, 03:07 AM // 03:07

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Originally Posted by Muse of Shadows

As for you that are talking about merging accounts being increadably difficult - I am only a mediocor programer, and if their database was setup correctly to begin with, this would not be that difficult. Several ideas come to mind right away - I may be incorrect as I have never done game programing

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look.

you are a so-so programmer with no game experience but you know how to tell the experts in that field how wrong they are and how easy it really should be to do?

they say it is extreamly hard and i think i will believe them

Muse of Shadows · Apr 25, 2006, 03:48 AM // 03:48

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Originally Posted by Loviatar

look.

you are a so-so programmer with no game experience but you know how to tell the experts in that field how wrong they are and how easy it really should be to do?

I have not seen anything that ArenaNet cannot do it, only that they wont. I was responding to someone else's post on another thread, who gives the impression of knowing what he's talking about - however I dont trust that as in my experiance, most people like that are simply retarded - no offince intended if you do indeed know what you are talking about.

Slightly curious as to why you posted your responce on this thread, instead of the one with my post on it.

Loviatar · Apr 25, 2006, 03:35 PM // 15:35

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Originally Posted by Muse of Shadows

Slightly curious as to why you posted your responce on this thread, instead of the one with my post on it.

easy

it was simply the latest merge rant.

you admit you havent a clue to what the proven track record gaming experts are doing but still say it is either easy to do or they botched it.