It ultimately ends up creating an unfair environment because people can use account sharing as an excuse to cover up their dirty deeds. This opens up the door for real world trade in a manner that we cannot specifically prevent or catch. Player 2 could pay Player 1 a large sum of money for his account – and we wouldn’t be able to catch this because they could just disguise it and say they are sharing accounts. Player 2 wants to join the server but doesn’t want to grind and make a strong character. Say Player 1 has a godly funded high level nightlord account. Sharing accounts opens up the door for near uncatchable real world trade. The true issue with sharing accounts is not related to account sharing itself, but rather what it enables. Yet, if this is really all there is to sharing accounts, why is it illegal on almost every single private server? There must be some other problem that we are missing. The same cost of sharing exists with loaning out items and loaning out mules. Furthermore, two players cannot use the mule or godly item at the same time. In the case sharing a mule: time and effort was spent to create that mule, just like the case of sharing a perfect or godly item. Then, we have to ask ourselves, what is it about sharing accounts that makes it an unfair advantage ? Honestly, asking myself, I can’t really think of anything that truly makes sharing accounts unfair – as long as the account was legally created without the use of any exploit. However, that begs the realization, if we accept lending people gear as creating an advantage, and if we are mostly okay with this practice, then we must view this advantage as a fair advantage. Whether or not it is as uncompetitive as sharing accounts is up to debate. However, letting people loan gear does give people with wealthy friends a distinct in game advantage over people without such generous friends. There isn’t any issue with loaning out your gear, as long as you are willing to accept the consequences of your friend scamming you and never returning your items. Letting friends borrow your gear in maplestory private servers is something that pretty much everyone is universally fine with. accept cross-bans due to cheaters), is account sharing really creating an unfair advantage? Some could say that simply lending out your items is just as unfair of an advantage as sharing an account. In the case where people are willing to take responsibility for their accounts (i.e. Instead of being forced to deal with these morally tricky situations, some servers just choose to avoid having this problem to begin with. As a result, you must ban their account and punish Player 2 (who did nothing wrong) as collateral damage. Now, you want to punish player 1, but doing so without punishing player 2 is not feasible. Player 1 begins to start cheating via hacks without Player 2 knowing. Say that two players are sharing an account.
Determining who to ban/punish when account sharers break rules in a fair manner is difficult.Īs I initially mentioned, people who share accounts also share resources they gained from playing – namely mesos, tradable capital (like equips), and untradable capital (untradable equips, the characters themselves).Įssentially what it comes down to is that 1 person playing 2 hours a day is at a disadvantage compared to two people collectively playing 4 hours per day.Account sharing gives an unfair advantage to account sharers.There are two main reasons maplestory private servers forbid sharing accounts. Why most private servers forbid account sharingīefore going onwards to the effects of letting people share accounts, I want to talk about some of the reasons most maplestory private servers forbid it. Then, more importantly, we are going to discuss whether or not account sharing should be allowed. In this article we are going to discuss the consequences of people sharing their accounts and their impacts on maplestory private servers. This leads to all sorts of things like power leveling (two people taking turns leveling up a character), extra funding (two people farming mesos), and more.Įffectively, an account sharer has access to resources gathered from two individuals. Account Sharing In Maplestory Private ServersĪccount sharing is the act of two people logging into the same account – and effectively sharing it.
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