As a result, you must ban their account and punish Player 2 (who did nothing wrong) as collateral damage. Now, you want to punish player 1, but doing so without punishing player 2 is not feasible. Player 1 begins to start cheating via hacks without Player 2 knowing. Say that two players are sharing an account. Determining who to ban/punish when account sharers break rules in a fair manner is difficult.Īs I initially mentioned, people who share accounts also share resources they gained from playing – namely mesos, tradable capital (like equips), and untradable capital (untradable equips, the characters themselves).Įssentially what it comes down to is that 1 person playing 2 hours a day is at a disadvantage compared to two people collectively playing 4 hours per day.Account sharing gives an unfair advantage to account sharers.There are two main reasons maplestory private servers forbid sharing accounts. Why most private servers forbid account sharingīefore going onwards to the effects of letting people share accounts, I want to talk about some of the reasons most maplestory private servers forbid it. Then, more importantly, we are going to discuss whether or not account sharing should be allowed. In this article we are going to discuss the consequences of people sharing their accounts and their impacts on maplestory private servers. This leads to all sorts of things like power leveling (two people taking turns leveling up a character), extra funding (two people farming mesos), and more.Įffectively, an account sharer has access to resources gathered from two individuals. Account Sharing In Maplestory Private ServersĪccount sharing is the act of two people logging into the same account – and effectively sharing it.