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(4/22/04 11:51 am) Reply
DAoC Account Splitting announced
Mythic Entertainment to Offer Account Splitting to
Dark Age of Camelot Subscribers
New Feature Will Allow Players to Separate Characters
into Different Accounts
FAIRFAX, VA – April 22, 2004 – Mythic Entertainment announced today that their flagship massively multiplayer game Dark Age of Camelot will be offering a new service to their subscribers beginning on April 27th. Known to players as “account splitting,” it allows players to transfer one or more characters from an existing account to a new account. Because separate characters on one account cannot be played simultaneously, households that share accounts often want to move a character to a new account so the two characters can adventure together.
“Roommates, spouses, and friends often bring new players to the game by temporarily sharing accounts,” said Matt Firor, Vice President of Development and Executive Producer at Mythic Entertainment. “Up until now, these new players had no way to move their characters from their friend’s account to a new account of their own. They were forced to create a new character from scratch once they got their own account. Now, with our new splitting feature, Camelot fans can move their characters to a new account and keep playing the same character.”
For a one-time fee of $40 per account split, customers will be allowed to move up to four characters from an established account to a brand new account, as long as the characters remain on the same server. Standard subscription fees for the old and new accounts will still apply.
About Mythic Entertainment
Mythic Entertainment is one of the most successful online game developers in the industry today. Credited with 14 online games, including the award winning Dark Age of Camelot, Mythic has played a major part in the evolution of the online game industry. The company’s other titles are some of the most popular online-only games of all time, including Aliens Online, Starship Troopers: Battlespace, Godzilla Online, Silent Death Online, Rolemaster: Magestorm, Darkness Falls, Splatterball and Dragon’s Gate. In 2003, Mythic was ranked 36 in Inc. 500. Mythic was also named one of Deloitte & Touche’s national “Technology Fast 500” companies and regional “Technology Fast 50” companies for the past two years. For more information about Mythic Entertainment, visit www.mythicentertainment.com.
Re: DAoC Account Splitting announced
I dont understand why they dont just allow account spliting with prepaying a month. Surely they can write a script to move some bits around.
The idea is they make money off the extra accounts not the actual split fee.
No split fee == more splits == more money per a month.
In other words they should be honored to split an account for you.
Quote:For a one-time fee of $40 per account split, customers will be allowed to move up to four characters from an established account to a brand new account, as long as the characters remain on the same server. Standard subscription fees for the old and new accounts will still apply.
So, will this new account have any expansions? Do you have to buy those? Or do you even have to buy the basic game for the new account?
If you just pay $40 bucks to get a 2nd account with all expansions - that's pretty nice. If you have to buy DAoC and all expansions for it - it sucks :)
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(4/26/04 7:50 pm) Reply
Re: DAoC Account Splitting announced
My understanding is that you have to buy the 2nd account, and all the expansions for it (all 2 of them ).
I agree they should do it for free, as they are gaining revenue off a 2nd account. But hey, it's more "options" for people, which I'll never complain about having more options.
At least they still add lots of free content (Frontiers coming soon) that otehr companies would charge $39.99 for.
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