I have multiple GW accounts, and I really wish there were some way to link all of them together so I could exchange items between characters as easily as between those on a single account. Otherwise, I have to use my husband's computer when he's not, and that's not often!
Maybe one account could be a "master" account, with additional accounts being "sub" accounts. I don't know.
I know I'll have to purchase chapter 2 for all of them, but I really think this could work.
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cynhounds
007Bistromath
What on earth would you need with more than one account? I mean, extra characters obviously, but why? 
Mo Joe Joe Joe
/signed
Why on earth have 2 accounts, so that you can have 1 of each professions. Took me awhile to get the 2nd account, but I am very glad that I did. I would never want to delete any of my toons to try the other two. And now that I have tried the last two, I have learned the complete skill set. I think this will greatly improve my PVP strategy.
Why link them
1) share resources, gold items, materials. It is very annoying shuffling between accounts.
2) Simplify friends lists. Some of my friends carry 3 accounts. Takes alot of space on the friends bar. One friend I thought gave up the game, but he was just playing a new 2nd account.
3) Share fame - you get rank 3, then want to play with a toon on your new account. All of a sudden you gotta chug out your time with the rank 0 folks again. No one wants to do that more than once.
Why on earth have 2 accounts, so that you can have 1 of each professions. Took me awhile to get the 2nd account, but I am very glad that I did. I would never want to delete any of my toons to try the other two. And now that I have tried the last two, I have learned the complete skill set. I think this will greatly improve my PVP strategy.
Why link them
1) share resources, gold items, materials. It is very annoying shuffling between accounts.
2) Simplify friends lists. Some of my friends carry 3 accounts. Takes alot of space on the friends bar. One friend I thought gave up the game, but he was just playing a new 2nd account.
3) Share fame - you get rank 3, then want to play with a toon on your new account. All of a sudden you gotta chug out your time with the rank 0 folks again. No one wants to do that more than once.
Burakus Lightwing
Why not Bistro? I also have 2 accounts. 4 Slots just isn't enough. And I consider myself a casual GW player. 1 PvP slot and three char. slots with all the different combo possibilities-I like to play with different builds. Plus to unlock skills I like to use at least one of every class. I eventually broke down and bought a second account myself. So I have 6 PvE slots and 2 PvP slots.
Anyway, back to the topic. I agree with you Cyn. Lucky for me I know a couple of people who I trust and have had no problem helping me move items between accounts. However, I do feel bad asking them to help me with this. It would be great if somehow my storage was linked with the two accounts and then I could transfer items through the storage rather than asking someone to help me move items. Another possibilty, since I have two disks loaded on my comp. I was hoping that I could open two windows of GW. That would have made it very easy to switch screens and trade with myself.
Anyway, back to the topic. I agree with you Cyn. Lucky for me I know a couple of people who I trust and have had no problem helping me move items between accounts. However, I do feel bad asking them to help me with this. It would be great if somehow my storage was linked with the two accounts and then I could transfer items through the storage rather than asking someone to help me move items. Another possibilty, since I have two disks loaded on my comp. I was hoping that I could open two windows of GW. That would have made it very easy to switch screens and trade with myself.
Gli
The upcoming guild storage should alleviate some of the problems.
Diablo???
additional character slots would too.
lord pun|shment
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Originally Posted by 007Bistromath
What on earth would you need with more than one account? I mean, extra characters obviously, but why?
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1x mine
1x wife
1x daughter
1x son
1x shared storage accounts (4x pve chars rushed thru pre to become storage boxes)
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buying 3 more accounts this weekend
1x for me
1x for wife
1x for son
---daughter doesnt play anymore due to ingame pervs.......
...but still wants to keep her accountwe all have a computer each & atleast another 4 in spare parts so trading between accounts is quick & effortless.....i seriously dont think i could play this game without a spare storage account.....i have 2 much crap in my inventory
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am i a freak?....no
do i work for a living....sometimes
i dont see a negative side to having multiple accounts... be it for storage, PvP slots or more PvE chars.......its all good
The Acolyte
/signed
I have two accounts, though not for "mule" reasons but so that I can experience the game from any angle, any role. I have one of each proffesion, and one open slot on each account for pvp. It's great, truly! I have all secondaries unlocked for each of my characters, which means when I can use almost any build (minus some of the elite skills I haven't had time to get). Makes for a great experience, since now I can fill any roll when grouping. Need a monk, np! Need a necro, np! Need an SS with Me secondary instead of my current MM build with Mo secondary, np!
Anyway, it's a lot of fun having a second account, but I have to say it sucks having to either a) screw with my computers registry to run two instances or b) setup my laptop and login via a second computer to share items, or last c) trust someone with handing the items back (?!insane unless you really know the person?!).
The Acolyte
I have two accounts, though not for "mule" reasons but so that I can experience the game from any angle, any role. I have one of each proffesion, and one open slot on each account for pvp. It's great, truly! I have all secondaries unlocked for each of my characters, which means when I can use almost any build (minus some of the elite skills I haven't had time to get). Makes for a great experience, since now I can fill any roll when grouping. Need a monk, np! Need a necro, np! Need an SS with Me secondary instead of my current MM build with Mo secondary, np!
Anyway, it's a lot of fun having a second account, but I have to say it sucks having to either a) screw with my computers registry to run two instances or b) setup my laptop and login via a second computer to share items, or last c) trust someone with handing the items back (?!insane unless you really know the person?!).
The Acolyte
Vilaptca
I asked Gaile about this before. It was pretty much a big NO. Have a screenshot of it, so I'll go look for it.
Ok, so wasn't exactly a big no, but its not very positive.
I myself want it, as my girlfriend and brother have basically stopped playing, but I play on their accounts, I would like to just merge them so I can share storage and such and be able to give them money, materials and weapons without pestering someone to help me out while I log in and out.
Ok, so wasn't exactly a big no, but its not very positive.
I myself want it, as my girlfriend and brother have basically stopped playing, but I play on their accounts, I would like to just merge them so I can share storage and such and be able to give them money, materials and weapons without pestering someone to help me out while I log in and out.
The Acolyte
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Originally Posted by Vilaptca
I asked Gaile about this before. It was pretty much a big NO. Have a screenshot of it, so I'll go look for it.
Ok, so wasn't exactly a big no, but its not very positive. I myself want it, as my girlfriend and brother have basically stopped playing, but I play on their accounts, I would like to just merge them so I can share storage and such and be able to give them money, materials and weapons without pestering someone to help me out while I log in and out. |
The only other reason why I could see this as a bad thing is for the bot ebay sellers...it would definitely benefit them...
The Acolyte
CKaz
It'd just be soooo much better if they did this better... I keep posting this because I'm still blown away how they don't fix it.
3 slots right off the bat are unlocks if you want to unlock.
Then you have 1 rpg say to play with family OR 1 pvp, if you really did cram your unlocks into 3. My wife joined so I tossed my pvp so I could play with her. Is that really the vision here? I thought they wanted more PvPers :b
Now Chapter 2, 2 more classes. I REALLY don't want to be forced into Ri/A or A/Ri - I don't like the combo nor want my hand to be forced again, this time that much more drastically. I'll probably take off with one and play with my wife on one. I'd like to play pvp again... :b And now with 2 factions I'd like to see both sides. It's just soooo odd for a game that touts 'Hey were like MtG!' they give you a million options and limit your '# of decks' to 4. So what will the new limit be?
That's why all this chat on linked accounts etc - we didnt get the goods in the first place. I stand by if we don't get 8 they might lose 2 purchases on my end - I really enjoy the game, probably too much, and I'd probably continue that with the expansion. But I'm tired of banging my head against a wall in the game.
And we really need more storage if they're going to let us collect hats and fun weapons and items and such and not expect us to grind to a complete inventory halt :b
3 slots right off the bat are unlocks if you want to unlock.
Then you have 1 rpg say to play with family OR 1 pvp, if you really did cram your unlocks into 3. My wife joined so I tossed my pvp so I could play with her. Is that really the vision here? I thought they wanted more PvPers :b
Now Chapter 2, 2 more classes. I REALLY don't want to be forced into Ri/A or A/Ri - I don't like the combo nor want my hand to be forced again, this time that much more drastically. I'll probably take off with one and play with my wife on one. I'd like to play pvp again... :b And now with 2 factions I'd like to see both sides. It's just soooo odd for a game that touts 'Hey were like MtG!' they give you a million options and limit your '# of decks' to 4. So what will the new limit be?
That's why all this chat on linked accounts etc - we didnt get the goods in the first place. I stand by if we don't get 8 they might lose 2 purchases on my end - I really enjoy the game, probably too much, and I'd probably continue that with the expansion. But I'm tired of banging my head against a wall in the game.
And we really need more storage if they're going to let us collect hats and fun weapons and items and such and not expect us to grind to a complete inventory halt :b
Tailon
/semi-signed.
While I don't have any problems transfering items between accounts (have a coupple of computers), I do have the problems with unlocking everything several times, sharing of fame/rank, friends list and such. However, I would not want my accounts to all be in the same guild and I would like to be able to play them all at the same time, so im only semi-signing this. I do want some way of sharing some stuff between accounts, but I want to keep some of the things seperated as well. Yes, that would probably be very hard to achieve technicaly, but it would be sweet. Should the alternative be either a full merge or no merge at all, I would probably go for a full merge though..
While I don't have any problems transfering items between accounts (have a coupple of computers), I do have the problems with unlocking everything several times, sharing of fame/rank, friends list and such. However, I would not want my accounts to all be in the same guild and I would like to be able to play them all at the same time, so im only semi-signing this. I do want some way of sharing some stuff between accounts, but I want to keep some of the things seperated as well. Yes, that would probably be very hard to achieve technicaly, but it would be sweet. Should the alternative be either a full merge or no merge at all, I would probably go for a full merge though..
The Acolyte
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/semi-signed.
While I don't have any problems transfering items between accounts (have a coupple of computers), I do have the problems with unlocking everything several times, sharing of fame/rank, friends list and such. However, I would not want my accounts to all be in the same guild and I would like to be able to play them all at the same time, so im only semi-signing this. I do want some way of sharing some stuff between accounts, but I want to keep some of the things seperated as well. Yes, that would probably be very hard to achieve technicaly, but it would be sweet. Should the alternative be either a full merge or no merge at all, I would probably go for a full merge though.. |
Elijah2104
/Signed
To be honest, all I want to do, if I buy another license, is have the extra character slots on my account.
I haven't bought a second account yet, although I am toying with the idea. The only thing that annoys me about the idea is not being able to share the storage and the possibility that I'd have to buy one copy of the chapter per account I own. (Unless anyone else knows otherwise?)
I don't mind buying the extra character slots but I do object to having to buy an exponential number of expansions.
To be honest, all I want to do, if I buy another license, is have the extra character slots on my account.
I haven't bought a second account yet, although I am toying with the idea. The only thing that annoys me about the idea is not being able to share the storage and the possibility that I'd have to buy one copy of the chapter per account I own. (Unless anyone else knows otherwise?)
I don't mind buying the extra character slots but I do object to having to buy an exponential number of expansions.
Loviatar
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/Signed
the possibility that I'd have to buy one copy of the chapter per account I own. (Unless anyone else knows otherwise?) I don't mind buying the extra character slots but I do object to having to buy an exponential number of expansions. |
it has been confirmed many times that each account is separate and will require a separate upgrade.
why should they have to pay for an extra free account for anybody?buy the original game and one of each new chapter and then pass it to family and friends for free?
they would be cutting their income to nothing as free add ons spread.
10 minutes til the chapter 2 key codes were up for grabs on the web sites.
1 account 1 upgrade.
Chev of Hardass
If I could buy another account and link it, I would. Till then, they are not getting more money out of me to start over with no skills/fame/faction.
Unless my guild starts smurfing really hard, and I need another account to.......ohh wait, smurfing is wrong.
Unless my guild starts smurfing really hard, and I need another account to.......ohh wait, smurfing is wrong.
Cjlr
/signed
reverse_oreo
oh god signed.....i personally have 3 accounts...2 are mine and 1 i share with my guildies who only have 1. if i could put my 2 accounts onto 1 that would be so amazing. I have several more monk elites to unlock on my main account but no skill points, whereas my other accounts monk has 25 skill points and no need to unlock on tat account....weaksauce
/SIGNED
/SIGNED
Deathqueen
I hardly play my one character enough let alone have 3 more full time ones to play. Some people must just be addicted to this game to have to have more than one account. I've used my one character to unlock the skill sets of just about all the other characters except the messer which I don't particularly like but there are a few skills I like to use that they have. I've piddled with the monk and ranger and necro, but, my alltime most fun one is still the Warrior with monk/necro/messer skills. The W/N is starting to be a lot of fun and the W/Me isn't too bad either. Arcane thievery is hilarious and the feedback you get from players when you steal their best spell and then use it on THEM is even more hilarious.
But, I will /sign for those of you that are addicted. I myself will never need more than one account I'm pretty sure.
But, I will /sign for those of you that are addicted. I myself will never need more than one account I'm pretty sure.
naveh3
how can u let 2 accounts have same storage... hmmm....
it is a though question... like what relate one account to another?
could be like:
u have an account..... u ask for a "merge cdkey" (from a generator of Guild Wars for example) > u add that cdkey to ur other account > ......and then what? u get in that "merged account" put items in storage... > u go in the original account and have those items there? it's like having a Bigger single account i'd say...
anyway there is a problem try to think of it on ur own and in theory and only in theory there are logic problems of HOW could u do it...
it is a though question... like what relate one account to another?
could be like:
u have an account..... u ask for a "merge cdkey" (from a generator of Guild Wars for example) > u add that cdkey to ur other account > ......and then what? u get in that "merged account" put items in storage... > u go in the original account and have those items there? it's like having a Bigger single account i'd say...
anyway there is a problem try to think of it on ur own and in theory and only in theory there are logic problems of HOW could u do it...
lishi
today gaile sayed the possibility of merging account wont be implemented </3 
cynhounds
I'm not suggesting MERGING accounts, I merely want to be able to designate my other account as a LINKED account, meaning I can access the storage for that account so I can swap items between the two accounts without having to either use a second computer or a go-between.
Maybe adding a button at the top of the storage window that says "Access Linked Account Storage". Then, you enter the account name and password. How difficult would that be?
Maybe adding a button at the top of the storage window that says "Access Linked Account Storage". Then, you enter the account name and password. How difficult would that be?
Loviatar
dont forget the coming guild storage.
Cash
i bought a second account to be able to play each profession as a primary. no regrets on it whatsoever. transferring between them was a huge PITA until i got a second computer built. now its just a minor PITA using multiple mice/keyboards. i would love to be able to merge them.
Pros: more char slots, linked unlocks and fame, no transfer issues
Cons: storage (im assuming the two accts would have to share one storage box and max out at 1000k), losing the ability to "run" your own newbs on the second comp while both accts logged on
overall, id love to see merging happen at whatever cost. as i posted in a previous thread, ANET will never sell "more slots" because even if they made money now, theyd lose more eventually to those only needing to buy one chap2, 3, etc when most of us with multiple accts will dish out the cash for multiple chap "x"'s in the future. but if they offered "merging" for a fee even on top of having to buy an expansion/expansion key for each acct, id jump on it.
/signed
Pros: more char slots, linked unlocks and fame, no transfer issues
Cons: storage (im assuming the two accts would have to share one storage box and max out at 1000k), losing the ability to "run" your own newbs on the second comp while both accts logged on
overall, id love to see merging happen at whatever cost. as i posted in a previous thread, ANET will never sell "more slots" because even if they made money now, theyd lose more eventually to those only needing to buy one chap2, 3, etc when most of us with multiple accts will dish out the cash for multiple chap "x"'s in the future. but if they offered "merging" for a fee even on top of having to buy an expansion/expansion key for each acct, id jump on it.
/signed
StonePony
/signed
Bumping this because I would love an easier way to share items and gold between two accounts rather than having to run back and forth between two computers.
Bumping this because I would love an easier way to share items and gold between two accounts rather than having to run back and forth between two computers.
Loviatar
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/now stop beating this dead horse
MarcinJ13
As usuall everyone needs different things and trying to force their point of view. My personal experience about different accounts was like this: I got Prophecies. I enjoyed it, then bought Factions. Somewhere I have read that if I will create separate account, then I would have additional 4 slots. Then I found that it is more convinient to use both parts on the same account. I bought Collectors edition of factions and added it to Prophecies account.
Now. On my Factions-only account I have plenty of skills unlocked, some fame etc. But I don't use it anymore (not since I could buy additional character slots). I would be more than happy to be able to merge this account to my Prophecies-Factions one. (transfer fame, factions, acount based titles, unlocked skills etc). I don't mind loosing characters but I worked preety hard and now it is all for nothing. So I agree with merging.
Now there is SECOND GROUP of people who just want to simplyfy exchange of items, freinds lists etc and for them it would be easier to link or group accounts. I have no specific interest in such option, but I'm not against it.
So overally:
/signed !
Now. On my Factions-only account I have plenty of skills unlocked, some fame etc. But I don't use it anymore (not since I could buy additional character slots). I would be more than happy to be able to merge this account to my Prophecies-Factions one. (transfer fame, factions, acount based titles, unlocked skills etc). I don't mind loosing characters but I worked preety hard and now it is all for nothing. So I agree with merging.
Now there is SECOND GROUP of people who just want to simplyfy exchange of items, freinds lists etc and for them it would be easier to link or group accounts. I have no specific interest in such option, but I'm not against it.
So overally:
/signed !