I understand purchase limits. I run an online business (won’t say what industry!) and I’ve been nailed by fraud. The reason being, as a business owner processing online transactions, if one of those purchases turns out to be fraud (stolen credit card for example) – I have to refund the person their money PLUS give the bank a 30$ “chargeback” fee. It’s thoroughly annoying.
When a company is making as many online sales as NCsoft currently is with Aion – I completely understand that they are taking precautions against being nailed by fraud.
HOWEVER…
One copy per household?! That to me is pretty outrageous…I’d say a vast chunk of the MMO community at large is people who play with siblings, parents, roommates, girlfriends, boyfriends etc etc. In my particular example, my girlfriend decided she wanted to play Aion…She was pretty addicted to WoW for about 6 months after launch, and we both think this will be a fun game to play together as well, as we haven’t really gamed together since WoW. In the end I was forced to buy it from steam for her, so it wasn’t a total disaster…but I do think it’s rather annoying that the purchase limit is 1 per household…
Have you had a similar problem? Do you know what the delay between being allowed to make purchases to the same household is? Leave a comment and talk to us dammit!
Related posts:
July 28th, 2009 at 9:22 pm
I wonder if that system will apply to off the shelf copies; and if so then how?
October 8th, 2009 at 9:56 am
Bravo, la frase brillante y es oportuno