

Say that two players are sharing an account. Player 1 begins to start cheating via hacks without Player 2 knowing.

Now, you want to punish player 1, but doing so without punishing player 2 is not feasible. As a result, you must ban their account and punish Player 2 (who did nothing wrong) as collateral damage. Instead of being forced to deal with these morally tricky situations, some servers just choose to avoid having this problem to begin with. In the case where people are willing to take responsibility for their accounts (i.e. accept cross-bans due to cheaters), is account sharing really creating an unfair advantage? Some could say that simply lending out your items is just as unfair of an advantage as sharing an account. Letting friends borrow your gear in maplestory private servers is something that pretty much everyone is universally fine with. There isn’t any issue with loaning out your gear, as long as you are willing to accept the consequences of your friend scamming you and never returning your items. However, letting people loan gear does give people with wealthy friends a distinct in game advantage over people without such generous friends.
