Switch character across accounts

icorrie

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Oct 2006

AoM

W/R

I have an account with a number of experienced players, would it be possible for me to buy a second copy of Guild Wars and have one of my characters transferred to the new account?

Many thanks,
Lord Skiddimus.

Griev

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Aug 2005

Brantford, Ontario, Canada

Perfectly Normal Beasts [MEAT]

W/

Nope, sorry.

Knightsaber Sith

Knightsaber Sith

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Aug 2006

Few Fallen Heroes [FFH]

W/E

Impossible. Many people have asked for such a feature, but just imagine someone getting their account hacked and not only was all their money taken but they actually stole their characters as well. Plus then we'd see pre lvl / unlocked characters for sale ingame and ebay.

Smile Like Umean It

Smile Like Umean It

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jul 2006

E/Rt

Oh, how I wish.

icorrie

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Oct 2006

AoM

W/R

That's a real shame, I'm quite suprised - would have meant additional sales for Anet...

Thanks anyway.

KANE OG

KANE OG

Banned

Join Date: Oct 2005

Ogmios Graybeards

W/

Seems to be quite a bit of threads that belong in the Q and A forums these days...... It's a good question tho. I think there's a post about running 2 copies of Guild Wars on one puter tho somewhere, that might do you some good.

CyberMesh0

CyberMesh0

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jul 2005

Charter Vanguard [CV]

N/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by KANE OG
I think there's a post about running 2 copies of Guild Wars on one puter tho somewhere, that might do you some good.
The problem with that is that you still can't run two instances of the same account, which is what I think OP was going for.

icorrie

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Oct 2006

AoM

W/R

Nope, not trying to run 2 copies at the same time. I simply want to port a character from one account to a new account so both characters can be played at the same time and not have to share a single storage account. The accounts\instances will be run on different PCs.

vinegrower

vinegrower

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jan 2006

Song of the Forsaken

E/

They couldn't do this due to unlocks. Say you transfer a w/r with all warrior and ranger skills unlocked to a brand new account. Obviously they couldn't let the new account get all those skills unlocked for free. So there would only be two options, either remove all skills from that character or allow that character to have all those skills, but not unlock them for the account. The first option obviously won't work because you would basically have a brand new character, so why not just make it from scratch. The second would kind of work, but that character would not be able to unlock any warrior or ranger skills for the account, which would be rather frustrating to most. Add to that the problems already mentioned and a whole host of others and we see that this just wouldn't be a good idea.

The Lich Ranger

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Feb 2006

Home

Children Of Orion

Mo/Me

that would be awsome *dreams of moving chars between accnts*

Sala Adin

Sala Adin

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Oct 2006

Troublesome UNIT

Mo/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by vinegrower
They couldn't do this due to unlocks. Say you transfer a w/r with all warrior and ranger skills unlocked to a brand new account. Obviously they couldn't let the new account get all those skills unlocked for free. So there would only be two options, either remove all skills from that character or allow that character to have all those skills, but not unlock them for the account. The first option obviously won't work because you would basically have a brand new character, so why not just make it from scratch. The second would kind of work, but that character would not be able to unlock any warrior or ranger skills for the account, which would be rather frustrating to most. Add to that the problems already mentioned and a whole host of others and we see that this just wouldn't be a good idea.
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