It wasnt outspokenly supported, no. But the fact, that they allowed family share, and that steams guidelines do not state anymore that multi accounting is against the terms of use, is at least a passive acceptance of alting.
But that is not really the important point. The point is, that many, is not most people play on RP servers and many if not most of these people also play with alt accounts.
On RP servers, we now have massive amounts of basically abandoned buildings.
But the lack of ANY kind of official word by funcom also means, we cant just get to deleting right away, because it MAY be just a mistake on their end.
PS: daffodils1986 chillout, even if it was, they wont gain anything from it, nobody will buy a new game for 40-100 bucks just to play an alt, and nobody will buy a new copy, to let the family play.
If anything I assume that they thought alt accounts would be too much of an exploit in PvP and banned it because of that.
I’d just really like a word from them, to know how to proceed
I’m having the same issue. Logging it here in the hope I’ll get a ping if it gets fixed. Please let’s not argue about it though. People have different needs for the game. And if family sharing has been disabled, I feel some announcement would have been made it’d be very unprofessional not to. Fingers crossed it’s a bug that’ll be fixed.
No news from Funcom nor Steam yet?, in the instant message whatsapp era?.. now, seriously, is this intended or not?, just want to know to organize my family summer.
The timing, and that they already merged threads, looks like it is a bug. May even not be a problem on CEs part but on Steams after all the summer sale just ended, and they may have screwed up sth… There is no reason to be impatient, we will definitely get an answer.
Lets hope noone is putting in overtime frantically looking for a solution right now ^^
I’m starting to get the impression that it’s a Steam Side Issue, or Action, So let’s not get hostile with the Funcom people just yet… I honestly don’t think they were aware of it until We All brought it up here.
There’s nothing on the dev tracker about them disabling it, you have a source for it?
As an aside, I just bought this and all the DLC during the summer sale and you’d better believe I’ll be refunding it lickety split if this WAS intentional. You don’t leave family share turned on for 3 years and then disable it on a whim with zero warning.
I am struggling with this very issue right now. I have the admin password and can use it on any account I wish for my server. Unfortunately, I have items placed down that I need to be on the specific character I placed them down with in order to edit/fix. There is no way around that and that character exists on a family share account. Now I have a lot of content I cannot edit or do anything with but destroy unless family share is enabled again.
It should be free to choose for any private server owner if they wanna enforce a 1 account = 1 character or 1 account = 2 or 3 or unlimited characters.
The huge point of conan exiles is it’s versatility and it’s success stand in many different community of players getting their hands on the game and making their own.
You won’t find 2 similar private servers, that was the whole point of modding integration and support.
It’s also common “best practice” amongst server admins to have an admin account + a player account on their own server, to be sure not to mix their two roles.
Having all players restricted to one character only per server may be a good Idea for some servers, because of “cheating”, and litteraly an experience breaker for others servers.
I’ve been playing this game since it first came out in Early Access. Bought every DLC. And if this was on purpose… after all these years… its a very low blow to those who kept believing in the game all this time.
