Multilogin on silver or gold subscribe

[Fostik]

Hallo! This will be great thing, if player who owned silver subscribe will have 2 logins per time on his account, and golden subscribe will have 3 logins per time.
Make "village accounts", playing with wife in same subscription, and with some friend maybe.

[Grable]

Instead you can just purchase an sub on a new account?

[Avu]

I have an account I want split but loftar won't do it because technical reasons so I suggested this instead. I'm willing to get another year sub to make it happen. Please loftar. Either method I could live with.

[jorb]

Thanks for the suggestion!

[Granger]

I would suggest you modify the subscriptions so that they can run in parallel, giving the ability to concurrent logins up to the amount of active subscriptions you have.

When buying a subscription there simply should be a choice:
- activate the subscription instantly, giving parallel logins
- delay activation until a current subscription runs out (keeping the amount of parallel subscriptions at a constant level)
In case a subscription runs out one login is kicked if active_logins < active_subscriptions and no delayed ones are waiting.
Make that deterministic please (oldest or youngest login, just announce it visibly enough).

This would also enable a customer to add a slot for a shorter timespan than the length of the currently running subscription, and it would keep the main point of subscription tiers (giving additional money for no additional benefit apart from the ability to show off through hats) preserved.

Open question would be if to allow drawing from free game time of an account for additional logins (or in case the single subscription runs out).

PS: OP would result in a price reduction after the fact, not cool for everyone who already bought something.

[Sevenless]

I unno granger, current character management doesn't feel well setup for that?

But I think that's the best option for sub/account management. I also don't feel this should be added to gold, the point of gold sub is to show support and get a special hat.

It should probably be a seperate option like "Additional login subscription" item in the subscription page. That would clarify things the best for potential purchasers. If the main sub runs out, it would count as a bronze sub or something.

[Undefined]

Sounds like a lot of pointless nonsense to me... Just have 2 accounts?
That's a significant amount of backend work to make happen because you want to play 2 verified account characters are once.
It's situational and would be rarely used, most people would just bronze sub 2 accounts.

[Sevenless]

Sounds like a lot of pointless nonsense to me... Just have 2 accounts?
That's a significant amount of backend work to make happen because you want to play 2 verified account characters are once.
It's situational and would be rarely used, most people would just bronze sub 2 accounts.

It's a convenience nod to players who will be multi accounting otherwise. Requiring multiple logins without any form of account management for a game that lets you multi character is kind of needless y'know? Admittedly, everyone who's doing this will be doing it on custom clients with multi account support so ehn.

Besides, it might not be a huge effort to support it on the backend. We don't know that.

If it's labelled as a convenience thing and gotten to in a year that's fine too *shrugs*.