Ideas for Anniversary Event Badges

Okay, I didn't see any posts with this idea so I figured I'd throw it out there after talking about it for an extended period of time with some SG mates.
Perhaps the CoH Anniversary badges could be switched from per character to an account wide form, much like "Early bird" from the AE badges.
I know a bunch of people who'd be happy about not having to log thirty plus alts on one after another when the badges are released just because they don't want to miss that badge.
And I'm not saying the Dev's should allow people to buy the anniversary badges, or something stupid like that, no, this would just be for people who already have them, as a way for their alts to get them as well, should they want one for a badge title, or something along those lines.

What do you think guy's, good idea? Bad idea?

The idea has come up from time to time and we are divided on this.

Myself, I have no problem that future Anniversary badges gets to be account wise. However making old badges like the 1 and 2'nd anniversary global, means that you will have characters like a Soldier of Arachnos with this badge and that Archtype was not around when those badges were awarded (well as player controlled AT anyway).

I am for this idea, as my badger was made a month after the 1st anniversary badge ended. My account was active about 9 months before the anniversary, so I was here. I'd even be willing to pay $10 or something for it, since I don't really care to have it on all my characters.

The anniversary badges are the only badges I have an issue with since they are badges awarded to the character based solely on the action of the PLAYER logging in and are otherwise no longer obtainable.

I understand the logic behind them, but I believe the dev's would have made these badges global if they had the hindsight they do now seeing as how Positron's gone on record saying they weren't aware of how great the appeal of collecting badges was. They seen them as a sort of a "oh cool I just happened to get X badge" mentality.

I somewhat understand the idea that some people have that "my toon wasn't around for the badge so I don't want him to have it," so I think the badges should have a kind of button like the Vet badges do.

You can pick and choose which characters get the badge by logging them in individually, but the badges have a button that rewards the badge (or maybe even a pseudo anniversary badge so people can tell the difference) to the rest of the characters on the account.

This method would let accounts that want the badges toon specific to keep it that way, it would make it easier for those who have to log in 10+ characters, and the dev's wouldn't have to write up an algorithm to auto-detect accounts who have the badge on one character to reward the rest.

I've always thought that the Anniversary badges should, with some other badges be moved to an "account badges" tab, and awarded account wide. I've pushed for such for a while now.

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Figured I'd revive this thread, as I wanted to hear more of the forum member's opinions on the topic.

I'm aware of the pros and cons, but my opinion is that they should be global. It would be nice to have a "I was around back then" badge, which represents whether the player was online at the time it was given.

Vet badges kind of do this but actually, unless you've had your account on the whole 6 years its difficult to tell how much of a veteren some people are once they get into the 30+ months.

Personally I have the 1yr, 2yr, 4yr, 5yr and 6yr badges, but most only have 5 and 6..

I would like to see the 5th Column gladiator awarded for having two or more anniversary badges instead of just the first two.