Wealth == How many accounts you own. Should this continue?

I have been a long time player since the first public beta of guild wars... I am starting not to like what I've seen the developers do to the economy of this game. With Xunlai Tourney House and The traveler Ive seen many players own over 10 accounts for the the purpose of reaping the free money benefits provided by ArenaNet. This makes many areas of the game such as farming pointless to play when you can just log on and reap the wealth that would take a player with a single account much effort to obtain. My questions for the developers and community is:

How is buying accounts different from purchasing game currency from online vendors?

If its not ok, for them because it inflates the economy making effort yield less value for players that play the game. As ArenaNet used to stated years ago.

What makes it ok for you the developers to do this and not them? (aside from copyright infringement)

Are updates to the game going to be similar in nature?

And for the community I interested in your comments. please be civil. My main question being do you think this should continue?

Obtaining anything in the game should be how you play... not how much cash you have to blow on accounts...

ArenaNet has lost focus on creating a great game and is now focused on generating profits.

I have one account. I will probably never understand why anyone needs to buy more than one unless you have multiple people playing on one computer.

I like money.

If more accounts = more money,

I like more accounts.

We need some Obama style justice around here and only make it so people have 1 account... 2 accounts max if they can prove a need. Just my opinon.

Additional character slots were not always available. Some of us have multiple accounts just because we wanted to make one character of every profession, without having to delete characters.
It's been like this since Nightfall (at least), although recent additions have made things a bit easier. Consider the keyless chests -- if you have multiple accounts, you're definitely going to benefit more from those than someone with a single account.

And before you say "yes, but you have to get a character to all of those spots," look at where Nicholas has been showing up. You'd have to bring characters to lots of places in lots of campaigns to be able to get the gifts from Nicholas every week.

Or make the people with more than 1 account share their RPs with all of us who aren't fortunate enough to have but one.

God I love living in a socio-democratic system. It turns me on a little.


Oh......back on topic. No....this should stay the same. Who cares if they earn more money than you from the XTH? You can just as easily go and buy more campaigns and do the same thing.....that is, if they even fix the XTH.

ANet gets the monies.
See?

Except for the Xunlai Tournament House, there really isn't a huge benefit for having multiple accounts.

It takes a lot more time and effort to get everything for Nicholas and then get all your accounts there. You'd also need all 3 campaigns and EotN to make sure you can get to Nicholas every week, for each account. Nobody in their right mind would spend that much money to get travelers gifts each week. They sell for like 5k each and there are only two items in there that are worth anything to make more money back.

Many people have had multiple accounts since Prophecies because of how limited we were on character slots. The reason you see so many people with multiple accounts now is because of the Xunlai Tournament House. Which honestly doesn't matter much anymore, they've taken it down and haven't said when its coming back. With so few developers working on GW1, I can't imagine it coming back anytime soon.

I think you're a year too late on worrying about multiple accounts and the Xunlai Tournament House. And you have nothing to worry about with the Traveler gifts.

A way for ANet to sell more game copies.
I wouldnt like to think the XTH was designed with that in mind, but who knows.

Nothing you can buy with the added keys from XTH (which you need players for to buy them from you for money, they aren't money per se), gives you any advantage over any other player.

Other than that, I really don't care if player X got 10 FoW armors on each of his characters, I even don't care if prices of stuff gets 'inflated', because anything other than 1k armor is added fluff.

Yea Trub, my point is that doesn't make for a good game... it just turns into whos willing to shell out more dollars for in game currency which i find ridiculous. I was under the impression when you buy a game it was to play it... not to blow money to feel good about yourself online.... thats what beer is for

If you need more accounts to make massive amounts of money, you're doing it wrong.

I'm with you on the good time and the beer part..
But bear in mind:
1.) Alot of players with multiple accounts, have had them waaaaay before addition slots were made available. (me included)

2.) Some players have multiple guilds they PvP/PvE with...so for more 'fun' with their GvG buddies, they created more accounts.

3.) It's their money, and I don't sweat it.

4.) ANet may acually use those liquid funds to create one helava kick arse game! (GW2)

good point trub, i just they don't turn it into a spending contest too.

i have 2 accounts the second one is for pre-searing, I do like the extra bit of money i get from XTH.

Anet wont do anything to say you can only have 1 account because there making money off it. And as long as Anet makes money Anet is happy

i hqave a very important question....WHY DO YOU CARE.. Dont give me this economy business. How does it affect you as a gamer.. Are you jelaous? Are you in need of a flashy sword that is no different than a short sword? Or is it the faqct that your pricey items all of the sudden lost their value...

How does the guy next to you with 10 accounts affect how you play in your Instance?

All Anet has added is XTH for those players that like to PREDCIT the outcome of the matches + get a small reward for it. Is it encauraging buying more accounts? No, it just happened that players figured it out and anet cant do anythign to prevent that + extra money never hurts.

I dont mean to be rude, but you sound like a jealous person who doesnt have 100k in the bank

By the way

1 account for last 39 month and only the basik slots that came wiht every chapter.. Not filthy rich but constantly have at least 50k on me -_- no i am not one of the multi account people because i dont care for moneyz and others.. neither should you!

I like real money.

If more accounts = less real money,

I don't like more accounts.

Personally, I don't like spending my hard-earned real money on fake money. But if others are willing, good for them.

I have two from way back when we couldn't buy character slots.

If your willing to spend that much money, then yes, I don't see why not. I only use Tourny points on one account anyways. I DO do the nicholas thing whenever but, I use all those items so I'm not making money off of them.

Ah, power traders.
Can't tolerate them most of the time...but dang fun to haggle with!

I think i remember reading in the EULA back in the day one account per person.... but its been revised since then and i can't find it anymore.