Why not address the issue with a solution first, instead of shutting down the whole thing?
How about
: When a suspension hits someone's account, suspend the account that holds the character the person was using?
His answer to the inaccessible pirates is not good enough. Legit users of the linked accounts cannot access their pirates because THEIR account doesn't have those pirates on them. It's on the linked account.
Somehow I feel like collateral damage.