I’m aware of what it is, and even used it personally for a while.
But i thought devs would set these things to private? thats why im confused
They already are being banned. OP is asking for FS to be removed entirely rather than just banning the license key which would ban everyone using the copy of the game.
Well, they didn’t so i am posting it every where so people can know that the devs are working on all of the bugs that people keep spamming about in the forums.
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Nope a lot of developers use that for communities. Some use Github as well. It’s a great way to communicate with the community and let them know what’s up without needing to take time to post in forums for each item.
I use them too 
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I agree family sharing needs to be disabled, no other MMO allows this and the fact that it is allowed when we can only have 1 character per server completely mitigating storage with 2 accounts that can be shared multiple times is mind boggling.
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Yeah, I know. I thought the family share was a feature to allow people to play the same game together, I’m not all that familiar with Steam. If not, then it should be the license key that gets the ban. I’m all up for family share, but if your only allowed to play one at a time that’s not sharing. It’s lending.
If you think about games before the internet. You buy a game and you could often play 2-4 player modes with one copy, great for parents. That’s what sharing should be about. I would be against two people being punished for one persons crime.
I just made a post saying its not fair to punish genuine families who use this feature…then I saw your post and deleted my old post…
Now I am on the fence about it…I dont think its fair to punish families but then when I see what can be done to abuse this feature…then I think maybe it is good to disable this feature…but then would a Licence Key Ban be the better option?
Another Feature that needs to be discussed further…
dood if you want family menber to play NW buy another 40$ license , this family share is ridiculous and its only hurting their game
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Not all infractions are punishable with a perma ban. Also, detecting people using alts that way is complicated
There is multiple ways of abusing the feature.
- Unlimited mules for storage
- Faction spys
- A single player having multiple characters on the same server in different factions
- Doing main story quests multiple times with family shared accounts and sending the gold to your main character via a second account
- Doing the 3 x faction quests multiple times with family shared accounts and sending the gold to your main character via a second account
Sure you could buy the game multiple times but the price starts to be a barrier to curb this behaviour.
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Nothing to be on the fence about. The fact they aren’t using license keys to ban is silly in its self due to the amount of ways to avoid the ban at that point. Family sharing has nothing to do with the exploit.
Innocent families don’t need to pay the price because folks can’t understand what banning a license key does. The terms are already pretty clear from steam concerning other games. Getting your game banned means all players connected are banned as well. giving merit to being more careful about who you share your games with.
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It’s not just about people circumventing a ban, the feature can be abused.
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Feel free to share how.
look up three posts.
He just did above in detail…
Yes I am aware of your post above. None of those are exploits due to family sharing. I’ll be glad to break down why I believe so -
Not at all accurate or as easy as you claim it to be. How do you plan on getting the items to those accounts? You can’t play both accounts at the same time (feel free to mention the game exploit that allows this so I can inform you why that isn’t a family share problem).
That means you need to trade 10 items at a time with a friend until all items are on a friends account just to log into an alt and do the trade all over again. Repeating this every single time you want to withdraw or deposit. An extremely time consuming and tedious process which has far easier and better ways of accomplishing. That is as you say, “a barrier to curb this behaviour.”.
What about them? If your point is to say you can have an alt account in faction chats, then I say you’re just stretching for excuses to hate on family sharing. Plenty of ways to spy on your enemy and family share is hardly the issue to that. Can spying even be called an exploit?
You can do that now by creating a new character too. Either way they will have to level to 60 and do everything a second time. If your point then becomes “well they can freely switch without deleting the other”, I still say and? They can only ever play 1 character at a time.
You don’t need a second character for that. Whether I do the quest 1 time on 3 accounts or 3 times on 1 account the math is the same. Where I see your point is for the non repeatable quests like story line quests. However they are still required to do that work, which again is as you say, “a barrier to curb this behaviour.”.
Now look at the fact that these aren’t exploits because of family sharing, these are exploits because of the game. If they can be achieved other ways than removing family sharing isn’t going to solve the issue. You need to solve the true cause to solve the problem or people will continue to find ways around it. “a barrier to curb this behaviour.” is not a valid excuse to ignore that.
No, they need to have a proper banning method and ban main accounts along with alts. Fucking over family share users because of their incompetence is ludicrous
Mate, me and my wife both have accounts so I can just log into an alt character through family sharing and she can trade me her stuff, no need to dual box or ask a friend…
None of which is your things. Anyone is able to store things for other people. That wasn’t the point being made.