We have all seen this before. Those of us that have played these games.

Any game that requires grinding for advancement, that has any hint of account sharing, burns in hell.

We are all gnashing our teeth in agony at the thought of competing with a group that has a bank of accounts that can be handed out like candy. (no examples given)

I and i do mean ME, would be allot more resigned to continue playing this game if the offender would apologize, with honest remorse to the community.  This act has split the community and the devs cannot resolve the prejudice between parties.

And most important for me is some confidence that any accounts found to be shared to be at least published.

One game i played had the "list of shame"... of cheaters. This list has five names on it after two years of use..

It is Risk/Reward after all.

Ville wrote:

These are not concerns of the player base.  The majority  of the player base does not care about account sharing.  Only 5 to 10 forum posters who don't care how big of a fool they make of  themselves.

Seriously? Here's something to think about.

Let's say some corp decides to have 20 accounts they share among 50 or 60 players. Every time one of those players want to mine they grab the Riv Mk2 max skilled miner character and mine away for maximum return. Or whenever there is Pvp they grab the max skilled Ictus, Gropho or whatever. And these accounts are used by 3 or 4 people thruout each day. This corp would gain a clear advantage over others not account sharing and would quickly be able to build a stockpile of over 9000 fully T4 fitted mechs, along with unreasonalbe amounts of mineral reserves. They could in theory dominate entire areas of Beta while the single account player corps would have no chance to match. A clear and deliberate exploitation. Even this account sharing ALLIES would benefit from having such a strong friend to assist them. All unfairly. If they didn't share accounts, and were attacked by a small group of pirates and the Ictus pilot wasn't available, the battle may turn out differently.
Understand this?

Also if 60 people share 20 accounts that's 40 unpaid montly subscriptions to AC. That's a lot of lost revenue. Think about it. Finally, its simply a violation of the rules of the game.

Its not a small thing.

Ville wrote:

These are not concerns of the player base.  The majority  of the player base does not care about account sharing.  Only 5 to 10 forum posters who don't care how big of a fool they make of  themselves.

Seriously? Here's something to think about.

Let's say some corp decides to have 20 accounts they share among 50 or 60 players. Every time one of those players want to mine they grab the Riv Mk2 max skilled miner character and mine away for maximum return. Or whenever there is Pvp they grab the max skilled Ictus, Gropho or whatever. And these accounts are used by 3 or 4 people thruout each day. This corp would gain a clear advantage over others not account sharing and would quickly be able to build a stockpile of over 9000 fully T4 fitted mechs, along with unreasonalbe amounts of mineral reserves. They could in theory dominate entire areas of Beta while the single account player corps would have no chance to match. A clear and deliberate exploitation. Even this account sharing ALLIES would benefit from having such a strong friend to assist them. All unfairly. If they didn't share accounts, and were attacked by a small group of pirates and the Ictus pilot wasn't available, the battle may turn out differently.
Understand this?

Also if 60 people share 20 accounts that's 40 unpaid montly subscriptions to AC. That's a lot of lost revenue. Think about it. Finally, its simply a violation of the rules of the game.

Its not a small thing.

Every corp in the game has probably done account sharing in one form or another.

The fact is CIR did it for a substantial PvP advantage with early access accounts and that is in my opinion when it becomes an issue.
We don't have any people with early access accounts. We did not share pvp accounts. The banned shared account was accessed from a secondary computer on a desk, 1m from the primary computer.

What CIR did was unfair but that doesn't mean that every single instance of account sharing is suddenly wrong. Its simply not completely batshit ***.
So EULA is good as long it hits your enemies

Sundial wrote:

Every corp in the game has probably done account sharing in one form or another.

The fact is CIR did it for a substantial PvP advantage with early access accounts and that is in my opinion when it becomes an issue.
We don't have any people with early access accounts. We did not share pvp accounts. The banned shared account was accessed from a secondary computer on a desk, 1m from the primary computer.

What CIR did was unfair but that doesn't mean that every single instance of account sharing is suddenly wrong. Its simply not completely batshit ***.
So EULA is good as long it hits your enemies

You are overstating the scale of "the problem" in CIR a bit.