Becus we are two people sharing one computer and one pocket. I didn't say anything bout not having to buy the game twice. I said it sucks on my pockets to pay for it twice.

thank you love. lol

That is actually a very good idea..

don't think it really could be abused - only one of those accounts would be allowed online at the same time and when you share the account with guys from all over the world they notice that anyways, be that your impulse account or the proposed profile tied to a master account.

That is what we were discussing Annatar, were ways in which we could eliminate that potential problem. One of the posters mentioned a fairly good way of pulling it off... and if I understand right, you could simply just have a limited number of secondary accounts on a master account with limited features... the catch being that only one account within that master account (including the master account itself) can be online at any one time. That would solve that problem. You could not sell that account, as it is tied to the master account... and since you can only have account online at any one time, you'd have to sell ALL the accounts at once (including the master account), making it pointless, thus solving the problem.

Well they are saying that you would only be able to have one person online per that game at a time.  The only problem I see would be if people sold it to others who play off hours - people who play in another country.  The problem is that, if you wanted to play at 5am some day, you might be SoL.  It wouldn't be a comfortable arrangement to sell partial rights to your game... at least, not worth 20 bucks, or whatever you could get for it, if you ask me.

As for the OP, I don't completely understand the frustration.  If YOU bought the copy, YOU should be playing with YOUR stats.  Tell your boyfriend that he should buy his own copy, or pay you for the one he took.  It's entirely unfair that he would disable you from playing multiplayer when you bought the game.  Beyond that, I don't see how stats really matter that much, and think you should just play on the same account and not particularly care.  It basically comes down to this - are stats worth $40 to you?

I take that back, it comes down to this - are stats really worth $40 to your boyfriend?  If so, he should get his own account, because, currently, he doesn't have one, he just uses yours.

edit: That was probably a little bit harsh, but the thing is, this is essentially a multiplayer game.  The single player stuff is pretty worthless, to most people who've bought it.  By saying you don't want to play multiplayer because of this, you are basically saying your boyfriend took the whole game.

We are planning to allow for different aliases under one account, but right now the network stuff is the top priority.

They aren't talking about aliases, though, they're talking about multiple logins on the same account so people can play online at the same time with only 1 copy.

What is being described is a CD-Key tied to an ACCOUNT. Then inside that account, are created Aliases/Profiles.

Relic is doing it, they allow 5 Profiles, and it works great. I can even destroy my Main ACCOUNT if I wish, but only 3 times, before I have to go see the "MAN" to explain myself.

That way, if I wish, I can sell the game back to the store and they can re-sell and the new player can re-create the Master ACCOUNT with said cd-key.

Given that scenario, the OP could play when she wishes on her own Alias Profile and not affect the others. No simultaneous Online play on the same account allowed.

Works great....

No, it's not like that. WE share finances and a computer, even though, this is actually his computer because he bought it before we were together. Plus, it wasn't planned that I was gonna get into the game. I just happened to try it one day and thought, "hey, this rocks", but that was after he had already created his online profile.

The frustration was that I can't play online as well. I don't mean for the both of us to play at the same time, I meant, he can have his character and his stats for when he gets online and play vs people and that I can have my own character and my own stats when I get on before or after him. I think with DG we can play LAN games simulteneously.. but since our other comp is too basic, it wouldn't run very well.. so blah.

So, if we can have a way to have a different alias under one master account, then that would be great. But we are planning to buy a second copy at that 50% discount Frogboy was talking about when we get another gaming computer so we can vs each other. That would be SWEEETTT. lol

lol it's not that he doesn't LET me play, but eh.. he just wants his own stats and see how he ranks. Besides, it'd prolly annoy me too if someone else affected my stats and how I look in the overall ranks of things.

lol I do, sheesh. We didn't know that she was gonna end up liking the game until a about 1-2 weeks after I already made the account. I wasn't aware that you could not have multiple Alias under one account until the day she wanted to check out online. Now that I know she likes the game and realize that the multiplayer doesn't have alias, I understand.

We both assumed that the "profile" was an alias for both single player and multiplayer. So thats why neither one of us didn't think much of it when I first made the account. I had no idea she would even end up liking this game or getting into the forums for that matter.