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We were being smug and assuming that the new account only thing was something that Jagex would only try to pull on RS3, but they are pulling the same shit here LOL
Ayiza's response on twitter was also stupid
The way that the account migration will work means that only new accounts can play on these worlds. Fresh Start Worlds are meant for new players, or those who haven't played in a very long time.
This still makes no sense, you CAN have worlds where you start a new profile from the same account, so it does not make sense that you couldn't do the same thing for this.
Please, nobody play this, tell them to go f**k themselves
Yes, you can have worlds where you start a new profile from the same account, but that doesn't cover what happens with the migration.
We don't have the tech to simply migrate your experience over to another account. We can however, move a Fresh Start World account over to a main game account.
This is the reason a new account is required for these worlds.
We could spend dev time on investigating other migrations options, but this isn't meant to be targeted towards existing players and we know its something most existing players won't be interested in. It's a trial we can run with a low-cost development time.
So what would be the benefit when you could just continue playing your main account? I am genuinely curious to better understand the point here as to why a new account is such a taboo thing when its not intended for existing players.