Guild Wars 2

Due to the discount on GW2 I decided to buy a second account rather than buying gems for character slots (sharing account with the Mrs is getting harder as we both start reaching endgame on all our characters). Is there some way that this might be interprited as botting on Anets behalf?

Nope. For one thing, my wife and I have separate accounts. For another thing, and this was big in Guild Wars 1 as well, some people have two accounts.

I personally don’t like playing two accounts as a single person, because your achievements are linked to a single account, and you really do have to “start all over” in a lot of ways. In other words the stuff you do on a second account, won’t affect your achievements on your first account.

Excellent! Well yeah, that is true. But seeing at it was both of ours first MMO game the hardest struggle was to get to know each and every class. The first 80 character took ages to run, until we got to the point that we understood the game mechanics and can do most things really efficient! We’ll gather a decent score on the new account eventually so I’m not really worried

…it would have been sweet with character transfers though :p

There were a lot of reasons to to this in Guild Wars 1…so far less reasons here.

In Guild Wars 1 there were some things you could farm limited amounts of per account, particularly in regard to holiday stuff, but also in regard to things like gifts you could get from an NPC…5 per account, once per week.

Some people would farm the gifts on two accounts or more, because accounts were really cheap…cheaper than buying character slots, and for each account, you could get more gifts.

Technically, sharing your account is not allowed as per the EULA, although by law, as your legal spouse, she probably has a right to use your account regardless of what’s in the EULA. Furthermore, a.net is not so heavy on the ban hammer, and they won’t ban you for that. In any case, 2 or more accounts for 2 people is the normal thing to do.

Marnick, I would definitely understand that if we lived in separate households, but since we live together and play on the same computer sharing an account isn’t really the same thing… However, having more than one account on one computer could be suspicious!

I guess not then, thanks everyone

Hi everyone,

iFocus, regarding your question, there is no problem with having several accounts, as long as you don’t multibox with one single kboad/mouse, as that would infract upon the Third Party Program Policy – here you can check it https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/account/Policy-3rd-Party-Programs-Multi-Boxing-Macros/first#post1532762 -.

That said, we hope that you and your couple enjoy this game.
Thanks to everyone also for answering.

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