Characters Per Key

Gamer asks about how many characters will be allowed in the official bioware vaults:

Does anyone know if you’ll be allowed more than one official vault character? I have to assume that since it’s automatically checked out and back in using the CD-Key as an identifier that it’ll probably be one…

Our current target is still 5 Vault characters per CD-key but, yes, that figure may go up or down before we release. As for why we wouldn’t just give everyone an unlimited number of Vault slots, you have to remember that these character files do take up space. They aren’t large but, if everyone who bought BG stored 5 characters, that would be 5,000,000 individual files that we have to store, back up, and track. So, while the exact number per CD-key is somewhat arbitrary, we clearly have to establish limits somewhere. =)

But… it’s wafer-thin,
Rob Bartel