My First Toon...

As with most gamers my original characters are on another members account. Is there a way to have them transfered to my new accounts? This would be most useful for families whos now college age children would like to retain their old characters on their own accounts.

Unfortunately, no.

I would imagine there are a number of reasons why this is so, (i.e.. a gold farmer leveling then selling a character to another player; theft of other peoples' characters/possessions, and maybe technical limitations).

Thank you, Champion.

Two reasons why they won't do it. First, for the reason Bramp stated. It keeps RMT vendors from powerleveling and selling characters.

Second for a reason that is in the EULA you click through each time you play. Legally only one person is supposed to play on each account. If parents are paying then the parent is supposed to get a separate account for each child who plays. Devs have stated that they will overlook this rule in the case of young children playing on their parents account but they still won't transfer characters.

If somebody were to send in an official request asking that their characters be transferred over to their account from their friends account then NCSoft could legally ban the friends account for violating the EULA. They likely would just say "no" instead but depending on how bad a mood the person who handles the request is in, it could happen.