May News/Discussions

[LochnarITB]

Honestly, if you have more then 10 characters you play frequently enough to be attached to... you are playing enough that you could get a 2nd account.

That is your opinion. In truth, Blizzard already allows 50(IIRC) toons per account. They have put an arbitrary limit on toons of 10 per server. There should be no technical reason why 50 on one server takes any more resources than 10 on 5 servers or 1 on 50 servers. In fact, it is more likely it would be just the opposite. Blizzard also created 3 trees for each class. In many cases, each tree can require a different play style, almost as if they are different classes. Therefore it is easy to understand how people can have all slots filled with toons they have invested large amounts of time on, time they don't want to throw away. With as long as WoW has been out, it wouldn't even have required ridiculous amounts of time to do so. Unless they are idiots or believed WoW would not last anywhere near this long, they had to see this coming given their class and talent design. If Blizzard had decided on 2 per account and 2 per server or 200 per account and 200 per server, there would be no argument. With the way it has been handled, the only conclusion that can be drawn is that Blizzard is trying to extract more money from their user base. I doubt there are many players who actually decide that Blizzard is correct and they should have to pay for a second account to play as they wish.