Splitting Accounts Possible?

#1 - July 19, 2013, 2:16 p.m.

I have 43 Characters on one account. I did this to maximize my access to my HOM goodies and keep my life as simple as possible in game.

Now we have time gated crafting mats and recipes and more Ascended on the way. I’m in a bind as these time gates will slow down my gearing greatly.

These time based gates were introduced well after the fact that I had such a large collection of alts and with no prior hint that this gating would be implimented. This whole gating on time feels rather arbitrary to me. Why for example are eight hours played on one day treated differently than eight one hour sessions over eight days?

This dilemma most likely won’t affect most players, but what about your customers who have loved this game so much that they bought huge numbers of character slots feel punished for their playstyle? I’d like to rectify my problem by buying more from you.

My desire is to buy more accounts (two or three) and have my characters evenly alocated to all accounts. I do not intend to sell or lend my accounts.

Is this or could this be possible?

If this is possible would I lose my HOM on all but the original account?

Gaile Gray

#3 - July 19, 2013, 3:35 p.m.

It is true that we cannot offer to split accounts, or to move characters between accounts. The character data is so intertwined with the game code that separating the characters and moving them is simply impossible. (And if it was possible, then yep, the HoM would only tie to one account, not three.)

Quite honestly, I do not think this is something that we will be able to offer in the future, although devs have surprised me in the past and what we thought was un-doable becomes possible. But in the short term, however, as much as we would like to help with this — particularly because you’ve been such an amazingly supportive player! — we just can’t do it.