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    Default Evony needs to seperate from facebook

    When na47 opened I had setup a character and allready coined abit before I realized it would not allow me to link it to my normal facebook account. I had no choice but to make a second facebook account to play this character. Well apparently not only will facebook lock the second account requiring a text messaged authentication code to unlock it but they will do this repeatedly and now threaten to ban one of the accounts. Not sure how legal this is but obviously I have money tied into my 2 Evo characters on Different servers mind you that are now at risk of beein locked out by this outrageous policy. The time has come. Fb has really crossed the line here. I admit I don't know fully how they will implement the features of the game without fb but the hnm's can be compensated for by just halving the upkeep. Evony may think this does not concern them but if I can't get this sorted so I can play this account with facebook on it me and alot of others will have no choice but to abort the server costing them a fortune.

    I mean I could understand if it was like 10 accounts but its 2 for crying out loud.

    edit: And no I wasn't doing the baronete thing I really only wanted 1 account and if Evony could put this character on my main fb it would be great. Wonder if its even worth a ticket.
    Last edited by LordSauron; 01-02-2013 at 04:53 PM.

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    After doing abit of research it seems Evony has taken the DRACONIAN and FUTILE position of not permiting unlinking because of account sales. So players with a legitimate issue of not beeing able to use facebook(regardless of why) are screwed over by this rediculous policy. I swear there not getting a dime from me EVER AGAIN.

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    Last I checked it was against Facebook's ToS to have multiple accounts and use a false name.

    It has nothing to do with Evony.

    It's not Evony's fault you didn't read Facebook's ToS.

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    Quote Originally Posted by acer5200 View Post
    Last I checked it was against Facebook's ToS to have multiple accounts and use a false name.

    It has nothing to do with Evony.

    It's not Evony's fault you didn't read Facebook's ToS.
    QFT.

    Additionally, it's not draconian to not permit unlinking, and you've poorly characterized the reason why. It's more contentious to claim it's due to not wanting to make it easier for people to break TOS, when the real reason is more due to technical reasons. It would be extremely messy and potentially filled with problems, so we will not do it. You don't need an FB account to play, and adhering to FB's TOS is your responsibility.

    If you don't like FB, or refuse to adhere to their TOS, don't use FB.

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    don't use facebook anyways. it's ruining society...

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    Quote Originally Posted by davemata View Post
    QFT.

    Additionally, it's not draconian to not permit unlinking, and you've poorly characterized the reason why. It's more contentious to claim it's due to not wanting to make it easier for people to break TOS, when the real reason is more due to technical reasons. It would be extremely messy and potentially filled with problems, so we will not do it. You don't need an FB account to play, and adhering to FB's TOS is your responsibility.

    If you don't like FB, or refuse to adhere to their TOS, don't use FB.
    Quote Originally Posted by davemata View Post
    QFT.

    Additionally, it's not draconian to not permit unlinking, and you've poorly characterized the reason why. It's more contentious to claim it's due to not wanting to make it easier for people to break TOS, when the real reason is more due to technical reasons. It would be extremely messy and potentially filled with problems, so we will not do it. You don't need an FB account to play, and adhering to FB's TOS is your responsibility.

    If you don't like FB, or refuse to adhere to their TOS, don't use FB.


    Because Facebook provides real advantages to those who use it, it's not a simple choice of adhering to TOS or not. If you don't want your facebook wall littered with Evony stuff and don't want to be at a true disadvantage due to the benefits of Hungry No More and other bonuses, there's no other option.

    It's bad enough that it's nearly impossible to farm materials for gear without spending a truckload of money, but I don't think that Evony makes a reasonable attempt to provide an option to those of us who need to maintain more professional looking Facebook pages because we WORK to pay for our gaming habits. I realize that y'all have don't exactly have a history of listening what the community asks for, but this one thing is really pretty reasonable.
    Failure is always an option...and this makes success all the more sweet.

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    not to mention it really sucks when you post a HNM during business hours and your boss sees it on your facebook page...

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    I think this really comes down to what you are willing to sacrifice for the game... It's all about choosing to do one thing or another. You can choose to spend money on the game or not and your time to create an active full account and further to whether u want to play age1 where there is no link to fb or age2 where there is one. then u have the option to play without fb or with it. and u can either break fb's tos or not with the knowledge that by not breaking the tos u may be sacrificing ur professional-looking fb pages. if you're willing to break fb's tos that also perhaps give u a greater opportunity to break evony's tos eventually by selling the account ... there are many more choices that must be made but i believe the point has been made simply enough ... choose for yourself what is reasonable it's not something that evony needs to change to fit for each and every player ...
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