Switching toons from one account to one other
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Posted on: 2009-09-07 08:59 in Player Questions
Unfortunately, no.
The ONLY exception (and I would highly suggest double-checking with customer support on this one) MIGHT be if the two accounts are completely identical. However, I wouldn't get my hopes up that you can.
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What do you mean "completely identical" cause I too just got a second account and was actually wondering this same excact thing. I use the same credit card for both accounts if that's what you mean.
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Originally Posted by Dark_Respite
Unfortunately, no.
The ONLY exception (and I would highly suggest double-checking with customer support on this one) MIGHT be if the two accounts are completely identical. However, I wouldn't get my hopes up that you can. Michelle aka Samuraiko/Dark_Respite |
Same EXACT name, address, phone, email, and credit card info. ALL of the information (save the characters, obviously) must match.
If anything is different, it won't work (my husband and I have virtually identical accounts save our names - same address, credit card, everything, and we can't move one of my characters off his to mine).
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To my knowledge, no - they will not transfer characters from one account to a second one. I believe this is largely due to the chance of RMT traffic in that area.|
Originally Posted by Justice Advocate
Before I start, Let me tell you all that this is my first time on any forums.
So, My mom has taken an intrest in playing CoH more now. Prbolem being is that she cuts into my game time. We have two accounts but she wont leave the account I play on. So I was wondering if there was anyway to get my toons off that account and on to the new account. |
Also it's against the rules to have two people playing a single account. It's in the Terms of Service, or that other thing. Can never remember what it's called.
I've never heard of anyone being able to do this AT ALL - Period.
The ability to move characters from one account to another sets up the ability to sell characters - which is never gonna happen. I seriously doubt you will be able to do this, even if the accounts are billed the same, etc.
And someone will undoubtedly try to make some sort of point that you aren't supposed to be sharing accounts anyway. Don't take it too seriously, many people start out with a character or two on somemone else's account to try it out - I know I lost some characters on my husband's account before I bit the bullet to get my own. I recreated them and moved on.
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Originally Posted by Dispari
I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.
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That's my understanding too. It's a shame, though. I'd love a more nuanced policy that said something along the lines of "If 2 accounts have the same bill-to information for at least 12 months, you can transfer characters between them." That wouldn't work for time cards, I suppose, but I bet most players use credit cards.
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Originally Posted by Psychoti
To my knowledge, no - they will not transfer characters from one account to a second one. I believe this is largely due to the chance of RMT traffic in that area.
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There's no way they'd allow this, even if all that information was the same. It would still enable people to sell characters, because once the transfer was done you could just change the info on file.|
Originally Posted by Dark_Respite
Same EXACT name, address, phone, email, and credit card info. ALL of the information (save the characters, obviously) must match.
If anything is different, it won't work (my husband and I have virtually identical accounts save our names - same address, credit card, everything, and we can't move one of my characters off his to mine). |
No ifs, ands, buts, or maybes... this isn't possible and won't ever be.
The good news is: it's so easy to level quickly in this game, that your mom can just reroll her favorite characters on her own account and - in just a few days or so - get back to the levels that her characters are at on your account. (As long as her characters aren't too high.)
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I've often wanted to ask someone who had this stance - |
Originally Posted by Hellguard
There's no way they'd allow this, even if all that information was the same. It would still enable people to sell characters, because once the transfer was done you could just change the info on file.
No ifs, ands, buts, or maybes... this isn't possible and won't ever be. |
Let's assume both accounts are under the same master account - What is wrong with transferring one character from one account to another, when the master account would still be the same?
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I don't know that there'd be anything "wrong" with it (and it's not MY stance, btw... it's one that I see Paragon Studios having). It'd definitely be harder to sell a game account like that, if you weren't also selling the master account along with it, since the person who was buying the game account could never truly have full control over it. But that doesn't mean people wouldn't still try.|
Originally Posted by SunGryphon
I've often wanted to ask someone who had this stance -
Let's assume both accounts are under the same master account - What is wrong with transferring one character from one account to another, when the master account would still be the same? |
However, from a business point of view, it doesn't make a lot of sense for them to allow it even if selling the game account wasn't an issue. Now that we can have a lot more character slots than we used to, if people were allowed to move all their characters to one account they could do so, and it would mean the closing of many of those "secondary accounts" that might otherwise remain open (or be re-opened periodically).
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My suggestion would be to make a couple of toons on your mum's account, so you can play then while she plays her favourites on yours.
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IMO it will happen and make sound business sense.|
Originally Posted by Hellguard
I don't know that there'd be anything "wrong" with it (and it's not MY stance, btw... it's one that I see Paragon Studios having). It'd definitely be harder to sell a game account like that, if you weren't also selling the master account along with it, since the person who was buying the game account could never truly have full control over it. But that doesn't mean people wouldn't still try.
However, from a business point of view, it doesn't make a lot of sense for them to allow it even if selling the game account wasn't an issue. Now that we can have a lot more character slots than we used to, if people were allowed to move all their characters to one account they could do so, and it would mean the closing of many of those "secondary accounts" that might otherwise remain open (or be re-opened periodically). |
$19.99 (or whatever they charge in WoW) per transfer with all the normal provisios. Sure some people will attempt to sell characters but they do that now anyway because it isn't exactly hard to sell the whole account. But in the mean time find an AE farm team you can have most of your characters back up to whatever level they are now in a couple of hours.
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Or just spend that same money on the second account.
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Originally Posted by Lost Ninja
IMO it will happen and make sound business sense.
$19.99 per transfer |
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They charge twenty-five bucks, $25.00.|
Originally Posted by Lost Ninja
IMO it will happen and make sound business sense.
$19.99 (or whatever they charge in WoW) per transfer with all the normal provisios. Sure some people will attempt to sell characters but they do that now anyway because it isn't exactly hard to sell the whole account. But in the mean time find an AE farm team you can have most of your characters back up to whatever level they are now in a couple of hours. |
You can't transfer characters in WoW from one account to another that doesn't have matching contact information. I think, but I'm not sure, that there is some unalterable contact information, so that limits the ability to match accounts in order to transfer "illegally" (against EULA).
They used to charge fifty ($50.00, FIFTY). I did it once (a server-to-server transfer, not account-to-account) when they charged fifty, and I was crying.
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Originally Posted by Dispari
I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.
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Heh. I have two accounts, one for me and one created primarily for my son*. But we both have characters on each account. I tried to log on from the laptop yesterday (he has been absolutely HOGGING the main desktop lately), forgot to check which account he was on, and bounced him from a mission. 
I've thought about this too though, as I have a 50 on that second account with likely more to come. If CoH were to exist long enough, he could be playing at college or even assume billing on "his" account, and some toons would be more or less stranded. He's only 9 right now so that's a bit down the road, but something I have wondered about.
* which were set up under different master accounts, due to me being confused when opening the second account...which in the long run may actually be for the best
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In a kind of sideways way, you've hit on the reason they don't do it here. In WoW, they don't technically transfer, they scan the old character and their possessions, and then create a new matching character on the new account/server. Their GMs have the tools to do so, our's don't.|
Originally Posted by Aggelakis
They charge twenty-five bucks, $25.00.
You can't transfer characters in WoW from one account to another that doesn't have matching contact information. I think, but I'm not sure, that there is some unalterable contact information, so that limits the ability to match accounts in order to transfer "illegally" (against EULA). They used to charge fifty ($50.00, FIFTY). I did it once (a server-to-server transfer, not account-to-account) when they charged fifty, and I was crying. |
In the end, creating software tools for outlier situations like this isn't cost effective with our smaller player base. In WoW, they use those same tools to help replace characters lost to hacked accounts or other scams.
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Im pretty sure there was an acception for dependent minors to that rule of 2 players on one account. |
Originally Posted by Psychoti
To my knowledge, no - they will not transfer characters from one account to a second one. I believe this is largely due to the chance of RMT traffic in that area.
Also it's against the rules to have two people playing a single account. It's in the Terms of Service, or that other thing. Can never remember what it's called. |
As to the OPer, frankly i dont see a way of doing it, i have never heard of it being done atleast. However, and you know this might not go over well with some, depending on the level of your main toon, you could probably take all the stuff out of him you want to keep, money IOs etc and then delete him, and remake him on second account. And being that i16 hasnt hit quite yet, its not to hard to find a "Team" that would probably get him back up to level for you in no time.
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This is a common misconception. The EULA explicitly states that an account can be used by one person, and one person only.
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Originally Posted by QuiJon
Im pretty sure there was an acception for dependent minors to that rule of 2 players on one account.
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Originally Posted by QuiJon
Im pretty sure there was an acception for dependent minors to that rule of 2 players on one account.
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Originally Posted by SunGryphon
This is a common misconception. The EULA explicitly states that an account can be used by one person, and one person only.
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However, most people look the other way for the scenario described.
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Justice Advocate's mom plays on your account too?
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Originally Posted by Aggelakis
No, from personal experience with the issue, this is not available.
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Also if the accounts aren't the same age, you'd lose the vet rewards moving to a new account. Ditto all the goodies redeemed from serial codes, etc.
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Before I start, Let me tell you all that this is my first time on any forums.
So, My mom has taken an intrest in playing CoH more now. Prbolem being is that she cuts into my game time. We have two accounts but she wont leave the account I play on. So I was wondering if there was anyway to get my toons off that account and on to the new account.