I dislike the mechanic. It strikes me as a good example of when the staff should deviate from the classic mechanic/rule in favor of achieving a more classic experience, either by disallowing account sharing as much as they reasonably can, or by disallowing the creation of multiple accounts as much as they reasonably can.
Sure, some folks back in the day had multiple accounts and some people shared their accounts. But since people had to pay for their accounts, few did these things at all, and those who did barely did it (so they'd have like, 2 or 3 accounts, or like 1 person per server had a full group they boxed, not 1 per character like p99 raiders tend to).
Staff banned boxing here even though it was legal on live and done on live. I think this was because of negative effects it has on the game and how relatively rare it was during classic era. This seems like a pretty close situation to that, yet account sharing has been pretty integral to the raid scene since forever. And now on green and teal (maybe it was like this on blue too), it's integral for /lists and permacamping lore items and PLing alts and everything else, too.
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01-07-2020, 07:52 AM
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