Yes it would be easy for them to do.
Multi-Account Support Seriously Lacking
- Thread starter shadragon
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Yes it would be easy for them to do.
Agreed. If I am going to cough up for another copy of the game, and repeat a heap of grin for a second CMDR, I want it to be easy to access from within the launcher, and I would like to have all my DLC available for both commanders. This would mean I can buy 10 x different skins, instead of 2 x 5 skins - which would still translate to the same cash for FD, in my case, anyway.
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I'm looking at all this, and realizing my alt account gave me two things:
The buzz of starting all over, without a clean save. It's not so much that the game is easier, it's that I know how to play it now. So the alt account got to things *faster*.
A nice run of exploration, which did not credit towards my main account. Deflation set in, as I realized I really wasn't interested in what Frontier was doing with the game, and I could have been doing it better with the main account.
In short, the same thing, paid for twice.
All the talk about running multiple accounts, is for those who have purposes other than a single player, playing a not-too-complex game style.
You can talk about *how* to run multiple accounts. The real question is, how many accounts do you really need?
You have to be crazy to pay Elite (we are space nuts/addicts). I plead guilty to this.
I didn't realize just how far the crazy went....
The buzz of starting all over, without a clean save. It's not so much that the game is easier, it's that I know how to play it now. So the alt account got to things *faster*.
A nice run of exploration, which did not credit towards my main account. Deflation set in, as I realized I really wasn't interested in what Frontier was doing with the game, and I could have been doing it better with the main account.
In short, the same thing, paid for twice.
All the talk about running multiple accounts, is for those who have purposes other than a single player, playing a not-too-complex game style.
You can talk about *how* to run multiple accounts. The real question is, how many accounts do you really need?
You have to be crazy to pay Elite (we are space nuts/addicts). I plead guilty to this.
I didn't realize just how far the crazy went....
Why is there only one person adding PMF's? The list goes on.
They are coasting, on minimum staff. Don't bother defending it. All effort is focused on the end of Beyond. The result will be like the end of Horizons, most likely.
Then, they will wonder, because they gave people the game the designers wanted, why nobody showed up.
For me the most glaring example of this is the failure to code a "Save As" button in the Options / Controls settings page of the menu - the amount of "my binds have gone" complaints after every update surely shows this is really needed.
I wish FDev would add multiple slots under a single account on PC, even if we had to pay for them.
I have a second account but I personally WON'T buy any consumables for that account. They would get more money out of me if consumables did apply across my 2 accounts.
I see that many here do buy for multiple accounts though, maybe that's why FDev have left it as is on PC.
I have a second account but I personally WON'T buy any consumables for that account. They would get more money out of me if consumables did apply across my 2 accounts.
I see that many here do buy for multiple accounts though, maybe that's why FDev have left it as is on PC.
I am out of rep, so have some virtual. +1 for your post. People seem to be (too) quick on spending money on video games these days, especially on questionable "content".
Yes, on PC you need to buy it twice, and they are completely separate, so extras like paint jobs are for the individual accounts.
When you buy it from the Frontier Store you need to use a separate email address and set up a new Frontier Store account.
Buy when there is a sale on to lessen the blow.
I don't get this multi-account thing at all...even if a lot of users condone and voluntary support this practice.
Bottom line is that they are reselling the same license--on the same platform--to the same customer multiple times, for essentially the ability to create separate user profiles (CMDRs). In any other game I can think of I have the option of creating several characters or save games. As long as I'm limited to a single logon in one time, I'm not using any more bandwidth, or server resources, except a few MB worth of S3 database storage per CMDR instance, which cost them what? a fraction of a penny? these days of cheap cloud storage.
The only use case where I can see some validity or justification of charging for separate alt.accounts if multiple CMDRs registered under the same license would want to logon and play at the same time--MultiCrew, Wings or whatever--this is how Enterprise Seat Licensing model has worked for ages. The user purchases a Seat License which entitles him or her to install and use either unlimited or up to a certain # of installs per paid license.
Alternatively, they could--and should--charge per connection or "User" based licensing model, which allows multiple instances of the software with separate profiles, but only one of those instance can be active (online) at any time. This is the model that would be reasonable for a game like this, IMHO.
Not even being able to share the cosmetics across these accounts is the ultimate fallacy in my book. At the price they are charging for that stuff they might as well make the game free--which is where it seems to be heading anyway--skinning their core player base for extra profiles should not be necessary either ethically or business standpoint. I've bought quite a few paint packs and even ship kits but I refuse to pay for the same exact license multiple times. I told myself I'm supporting the game development to justify them as opposed to the ROI itself, but at least I got something new, a tiny bit of new capability I didn't have before in return for my hard earned cash.
No doubt Frontier wanted to continue this practice on the Xbox but Microsoft must've put their foot down--good for them! I'm not sure how the PS4 version works in this regard, whether Sony allows this highly questionable practice or not.
The lack of even a tiny bit of class to at least throw in a few extra lines of code to expand the launcher for these CMDRs so they don't have to write batch files, etc., to launch their alt.accounts....well, I'm not going to even go there. Sad...just sad.
Bottom line is that they are reselling the same license--on the same platform--to the same customer multiple times, for essentially the ability to create separate user profiles (CMDRs). In any other game I can think of I have the option of creating several characters or save games. As long as I'm limited to a single logon in one time, I'm not using any more bandwidth, or server resources, except a few MB worth of S3 database storage per CMDR instance, which cost them what? a fraction of a penny? these days of cheap cloud storage.
The only use case where I can see some validity or justification of charging for separate alt.accounts if multiple CMDRs registered under the same license would want to logon and play at the same time--MultiCrew, Wings or whatever--this is how Enterprise Seat Licensing model has worked for ages. The user purchases a Seat License which entitles him or her to install and use either unlimited or up to a certain # of installs per paid license.
Alternatively, they could--and should--charge per connection or "User" based licensing model, which allows multiple instances of the software with separate profiles, but only one of those instance can be active (online) at any time. This is the model that would be reasonable for a game like this, IMHO.
Not even being able to share the cosmetics across these accounts is the ultimate fallacy in my book. At the price they are charging for that stuff they might as well make the game free--which is where it seems to be heading anyway--skinning their core player base for extra profiles should not be necessary either ethically or business standpoint. I've bought quite a few paint packs and even ship kits but I refuse to pay for the same exact license multiple times. I told myself I'm supporting the game development to justify them as opposed to the ROI itself, but at least I got something new, a tiny bit of new capability I didn't have before in return for my hard earned cash.
No doubt Frontier wanted to continue this practice on the Xbox but Microsoft must've put their foot down--good for them! I'm not sure how the PS4 version works in this regard, whether Sony allows this highly questionable practice or not.
The lack of even a tiny bit of class to at least throw in a few extra lines of code to expand the launcher for these CMDRs so they don't have to write batch files, etc., to launch their alt.accounts....well, I'm not going to even go there. Sad...just sad.