I had 2 accounts in Shadowbane, 3 when it went FTP. I had 1 for my main pvp toon, the other for a buffbot/summoner or treb operator.

To the guy saying how immoral it is, the game was set up to where you needed preist buffs to be competitve, and they lasted 1/2 hr (if I remember right). Any character set up for buffs was worthless for anything else. So you could have a buddy do it, but I wouldn't want to play a character that is only useful every half hour, would you? Some game mechanics lend well to a 2nd account, and it is not only for antisocial reasons. I would buff 9 people at a time, not just myself, and it was absolutely necessary to have those buffs to be competitive in seiges.

Originally posted by Kyleran

Just curious, I currently pay for 3 sub fees

At one time, you could have been declared a dirty rotten commie pinko and burned at the stake for multi-boxing.

One of those 'used to be fashionable to hate' gamer ideas, that you never hear any more.  That manifesto kind of fell by the wayside.

Anyway...I've done it a couple of times, support for the 'economic domination' auction house meta-game (i.e. locker mules).  Don't (currently).

2 for WoW

4 for Eve...all cancelled now

2 LotR

Originally posted by Icewhite

Originally posted by Kyleran

Just curious, I currently pay for 3 sub fees

At one time, you could have been declared a dirty rotten commie pinko and burned at the stake for multi-boxing.

One of those 'used to be fashionable to hate' gamer ideas, that you never hear any more.  That manifesto kind of fell by the wayside.

Anyway...I've done it a couple of times, support for the 'economic domination' auction house meta-game (i.e. locker mules).  Don't (currently).

Well, actually in this very thread I've been accused of wanting multiple accounts so I could be a "dick" to other people, or that I just don't like playing fair. (well, there's some truth to that 2nd one I suppose, screw fairness)

8 accounts for DaoC (5 for me 3 between brothers/sister)

2 for SWG (All for me)

2 for Darkfall (All for me)

Daoc I kept 3 running at all times for farming with my Spiritmaster and 3 for RvR (Valk/Skald/Shaman) or (SM-darkness-spec /skald / healer)

Originally posted by Kyleran

Agreed, the folks at CCP know exactly what they are doing, and encourage players having more than one account, it's how they've managed to thrive over all these years.  The economics of such design is smart business, and you can learn much from it.

*pitches a Zhevra-textured cruiser to the marketing team for the Buddy Program*

Originally posted by Maelwydd

Overall I feel sad about this thread. I sometimes feel a little embarrased about the time I spend playing online etc but compared to people in this thread I an fine, but people here have some serious problems with social skills and a "must win at all costs, even by cheating" mentality. If ever I was worried for the industry this thread just made it worse...

 

On a side note, most people I read who play EVE seem to have multple accounts so anyone know exactly what their numbers are? By the sounds of it they just have a lot of people who are obsessed, have multiple accounts and no life?

The air must be very thin up there on your high horse.  Don't fall off, you might hurt yourself.

Originally posted by Maelwydd

Why?

 

If you like to be a dick to others, I can see why some want a 2nd account but I cannot see any reason for more then 1 account personally.

 

The other option are people that simply cannot play fair and so need extra accounts to gather more resources, own more land or whatever simply because they cannot achieve the same as others without effectivly cheating.

I think people that have more then 1 account for themselves and don't have them to allow them to play like dicks are failing to see the point of playing games and treat it more like a job or life replacement.

Even if I was stupidly rich I would still only have 1 account per game, just have lots of games to play. I simply don't get why it is needed for anything but player issues.

If you have ever played Anarchy Online, you would know why almost all the remainaing players have multiple accounts. It's really not optional. The game was designed with heavy player inter-dependancy. And with the game's population in the state it's in, this is not something that can be overcome with a single player with a single acount.

I had 2 EQ2 accounts. In all I think I had 15 characters - 7 of them up to level 90.  Don't need it in SWTOR as I can have as many characters as I want... not sure limit is 40 or 50 I think - I have 25 right now, and it will take me a while to work on all of them, which I intend to LOL. Yeah I know I am altoholic AAA grade.

I was boxing on EQ2 but it was pain in the neck, was doing it only because soloing defiler was unbearable before AAs.

The last game on which I had multiple subs was PotBS -- 3 freetraders and 1 naval officer. I did multiple freetraders so I could provide my own raw materials and not have to worry about supply shortages or transporting materials through PvP zones.

Before that is was Perfect World, with two accounts (it's F2P, so doesn't really count). The last year or so I played there were way too many power leveled noobs who didn't know their classes or responsibilities in squad. So after the umpteenth squad wipe because of utter stupidity I created a second account, multi boxed, and did all my own daily bounty hunts, and FBs. Once I created that second account I never had another character that died, except on purpose. There's a point in the game where you cannot do cultivation quests unless your character has died. I literally had to commit suicide. Lord love the power levelers.

In the way back of early EVE, around 4-5 months after release, I ran two accounts simultaneously on one computer. I did this thru all of my EVE gaming.

And about 6 months before and about 2 months after Walking in Stations (EVE) I was running 3 accounts on two screens on the same computer. And it ran like a charm, in space that is.

I tried running WoW simultaneously, my account the other the GF's, and it did not like it. It had some serious draw lag. It was more just an experiment anyway than any real effort on my part to try and make it work.

But if you want to count me and the GF using the same card for the same game. Shit, I cant even count that high, much less remember them all.

Originally posted by Kyleran

Just curious, I currently pay for 3 sub fees for EVE (all for my own use) and got to thinking about how many other titles I've paid for multiple sub fees over the years and why.

...

Just wondering how many accounts other people have paid for in their gaming careers and see if there are any of the hardcore folks on these forums, you know, who have paid for like 12 accounts to a single game (or perhaps multiple games at the same time)

 

Never, but there have been times when I have been subscribed to 3 games at same time. :-) Ok, for short, have been trying, comparing, been bored, ... do now know ... but happend from time to time. And have been indeed playing all subbed games alternately in this time.

Ultima Online: 4 accounts (mainly for crafting and BODs; all active for several years)

World of Warcraft: 2 accounts (not active atm)

DAoC was the only MMO I have ever had more than one account. I think I had 3 and my room mate at the time had two.

We had 5 computers setup in the back room, would have several friends over a couple nights a week playing long stretches of RvR.

The mandatory buffbot and the 4 or 5 of us running in PvP. Good times.

I barely have the time to play one account anymore, much less 3 or 4 =)

Three accounts in EverQuest, and I two-boxed pretty much all the time.  Plus this was back when I shared accounts with friends, so I have lists of 12+ accounts I had access to back then; whatever class we needed, I could bring.

Two accounts in Lineage II, but I didn't play for that long, really; I only got to around 55ish.

Two accounts in WoW, and at one point that jumped to three, but settled back to two before I quit entirely.

Two accounts in CoH/CoV.  I can't even really recall why I did that one.  There was some reason I wanted to have two characters online simultaneously, but I don't really remember it.

yes for most games, 1 for me and 1 for my wife and sometimes a 3rd for one of our kids

Daoc 2, Coh 2, Wow 3  StO 2, WOT 2,  GW2 1