Whats blizzards stance on account sharing?

[Warsong-boxer]

Is it allowed?

What would they do if the two accounts being shared used the same last name?

[Toned]

I can tell you right now stop and go buy battlechest in your name. Here's my epic story for you:
Background:
Accounts 1,2,3 = Mine
Account4 = I bought the account for my brother when we lived together but it was put in his name, long story short he stopped playing and I was still paying for it so I used it.
Account5= Girlfriend's account whom I live with.

So, I level 5 shamans to 70 rape some face in PvP instances etc... Then one day I log on and accounts 3-5 have been "closed" for a ownership dispute. All the accounts had forms that I had to fill out and fax to Blizzard proving that I was the owner of the account. Blizzard specifically told me in a post that "Account sharing even from well established couples is against the ToS." I got my accounts turned back on, Account4 = I'm not paying for and will remain off till my brother decides to play again (he just got a free lvl 70 sham wewt). Account5= She still plays it and I do not. Accounts 4+5 Version 2 now = 2 Battle chests that I bought the same weekend this went down. Don't risk getting your accounts ban for multi-boxing on them lol. I consider it a close call being as I didn't get ban, but I'm about 99.9% sure if I was to continue multi-boxing with my old setup accounts 4 and 5 would be no more.

Side note... Accounts 1 and 2 are like the same name with a number variance. Example: Bob Bob2, but my third account is completely different but all the information is me, so that I why I think they closed that one too and made me fax in a form. They left BoB and BoB2 alone keke.

[Tehtsuo]

I can tell you right now stop and go buy battlechest in your name. Here's my epic story for you:
Background:
Accounts 1,2,3 = Mine
Account4 = I bought the account for my brother when we lived together but it was put in his name, long story short he stopped playing and I was still paying for it so I used it.
Account5= Girlfriend's account whom I live with.

So, I level 5 shamans to 70 rape some face in PvP instances etc... Then one day I log on and accounts 3-5 have been "closed" for a ownership dispute. All the accounts had forms that I had to fill out and fax to Blizzard proving that I was the owner of the account. Blizzard specifically told me in a post that "Account sharing even from well established couples is against the ToS." I got my accounts turned back on, Account4 = I'm not paying for and will remain off till my brother decides to play again (he just got a free lvl 70 sham wewt). Account5= She still plays it and I do not. Accounts 4+5 Version 2 now = 2 Battle chests that I bought the same weekend this went down. Don't risk getting your accounts ban for multi-boxing on them lol. I consider it a close call being as I didn't get ban, but I'm about 99.9% sure if I was to continue multi-boxing with my old setup accounts 4 and 5 would be no more.

Side note... Accounts 1 and 2 are like the same name with a number variance. Example: Bob Bob2, but my third account is completely different but all the information is me, so that I why I think they closed that one too and made me fax in a form. They left BoB and BoB2 alone keke.Normally I'd say "Yep, yep, don't share accounts, you get pwnd." However, this story raises a question that I'd be interested in knowing. You say you got all accounts turned back on. It sounds like that includes your brothers and girlfriends, and you mention buying battlechests. Does this mean you were able to move your shaman off their accounts and onto yours? This confuses me, because I was under the impression the only way you could move a character from one account to another was if both accounts were under the same name? Thanks in advance for clarifying!

[Diamndzngunz]

Is it allowed?

What would they do if the two accounts being shared used the same last name?Its not hard to read the TOS and find your answer. No it's not allowed.

People however do it. I don't know how they can find out if you share but it can happen. So do it at your own risk.

[Toned]

I can tell you right now stop and go buy battlechest in your name. Here's my epic story for you:
Background:
Accounts 1,2,3 = Mine
Account4 = I bought the account for my brother when we lived together but it was put in his name, long story short he stopped playing and I was still paying for it so I used it.
Account5= Girlfriend's account whom I live with.

So, I level 5 shamans to 70 rape some face in PvP instances etc... Then one day I log on and accounts 3-5 have been "closed" for a ownership dispute. All the accounts had forms that I had to fill out and fax to Blizzard proving that I was the owner of the account. Blizzard specifically told me in a post that "Account sharing even from well established couples is against the ToS." I got my accounts turned back on, Account4 = I'm not paying for and will remain off till my brother decides to play again (he just got a free lvl 70 sham wewt). Account5= She still plays it and I do not. Accounts 4+5 Version 2 now = 2 Battle chests that I bought the same weekend this went down. Don't risk getting your accounts ban for multi-boxing on them lol. I consider it a close call being as I didn't get ban, but I'm about 99.9% sure if I was to continue multi-boxing with my old setup accounts 4 and 5 would be no more.

Side note... Accounts 1 and 2 are like the same name with a number variance. Example: Bob Bob2, but my third account is completely different but all the information is me, so that I why I think they closed that one too and made me fax in a form. They left BoB and BoB2 alone keke.Normally I'd say "Yep, yep, don't share accounts, you get pwnd." However, this story raises a question that I'd be interested in knowing. You say you got all accounts turned back on. It sounds like that includes your brothers and girlfriends, and you mention buying battlechests. Does this mean you were able to move your shaman off their accounts and onto yours? This confuses me, because I was under the impression the only way you could move a character from one account to another was if both accounts were under the same name? Thanks in advance for clarifying!Yes, I was able to get my 1 account turned back on by faxing in a copy of my DL and the completed form... My g/f had to do the same as well as my brother. I left the shamans on their accounts and I am currently lvling 5 horde and 2 Alliance to replace the 2 on said accounts brothers + g/f's. I didn't even attempt to transfer the toons wasn't worth the hassle.

[kllrwlf]

Here's a simple way of how the GM's find out.

You pwned some noob ganker, and he reports you for botting because they don't understand how you can control 5 toons at once.
or
You are going through Iron Forge and people report you for botting because they don't understand how you can control 5 toons at once.

GM checks out your account, the names are not the same, must not be the same owner.

Banned.

The End.

Moral, spend the little bit of money now to have your own accounts at the beginning, or spend the little bit of money and a whole lot of time doing it all over again because it wasn't your account.

[Vyndree]

Is it allowed?

What would they do if the two accounts being shared used the same last name?

You could also do a search ('http://dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?form=search') on "account sharing" and see the numerous discussions on this topic. According to Blizzard's terms of service and eula, they do not recognize the transfer of any accounts and can ban you for doing so.

Didn't we have someone who did get banned very late in the game (post 60+) for account sharing? Was that you, Toned? I can't find the post.

[Toned]

I didn't get ban... they just made me send in proof of ownership, and I stopped using the accounts that weren't soley in my name. Then bought 2 more battle chests and rerolled.

[elo]

You're talking about a huge time investment man, best to stick to the letter of the law in this case. It sucks but it's just the way it is. Sure you could get by for a long time, but like someone else said, you get some panty waist upset and they'll dig into ya deep.

[Warsong-boxer]

Update: I was using all 3 chars...2 are one ... one isnt. I tried to log on today and the account that wasnt mine had its pasword changed.



I was just using them to run heroics with friends so no one would know but we had to clear the summoning stone and i just got into killing alliance and ended up camping the stone for like 10 minutes. I was pretty sure I was being reported because so many of them weren't releasing so i logged off the 3rd char that wasnt mine, but the damage is still done this morning.



Guess I can only dual box pvp, but I can triple box instances.



LOL second update ... his account got hacked and it wasn't blizzard so im in the clear. It wasnt my fault either this is the 2nd account he has gotten hacked.

[zanthor]

his account got hacked and it wasn't blizzard so im in the clear. It wasnt my fault either this is the 2nd account he has gotten hacked.Hacked as in he gave the account info to so many people that someone violated that trust I'd wager... Sharing accounts is VERY stupid unless you know the people IRL and have the ability to knock them around when they fuck you.

[Oldin]

Hacked as in he gave the account info to so many people that someone violated that trust I'd wager... Sharing accounts is VERY stupid unless you know the people IRL and have the ability to knock them around when they fuck you.

And even then. You cannot really know which keylogging sites your mates might visit just when the keyloggers found the hole in the AV+Firewall combinations he is using.

[Akoko]

Same situation I have. Unfortunately I have to stop triple boxing because of the account name problem, I am not going to level any more only to find out that my characters are banned. When I have a job I'll go straight into 5-boxing however but I'm still in high school and can't even afford 3 WoW's.

[FunkStar]

is there this big of a chance of it happening then?

At the moment I use 2 accounts of my own, and 1 of my best friend's nephew, who rarely ever plays.
they're already 70 so :x

[Wilbur]

If they catch you, I doubt they'll let you keep the accounts.

[Nixi]

Blizzard seems to take a ban first and ask questions later approach. If you're multiboxing and you obliterate someone in PVP or even just run through IF (as someone already said) you'll probably be reported. The next step is getting banned or contacted to prove that you're the person you said you were when you registered.

If you continue to use the account will you get banned again? maybe yes maybe no.

I directly violated the conditions in which I registered two of my US WOW accounts.

I had 3 accounts, (before my multiboxing days, I just liked having diff characters on diff accounts) and the computer I was using had keylogging software on it.

When I first got banned, I was super pissed because I thought it was because I was playing from China. One of the emails was a generic "contrary to the essence" BS but the other was more detailed and said the character: Zhaoxi did something. Now I didn't have any characters named Zhaoxi but i've lived in China long enough to know that is a Chinese name. I'm guessing my account was used to do some RMT activity without my consent.

I requested to have my 3rd account closed until I could buy AV software and format my PC.

After a couple weeks of one way communication, (bliz just uses canned responses and noone seems to write their own replys) I got the first account back but not the other two. One of the emails said something about me violating the registration procedures. I bought my one account while I was back in the US for Christmas, but the other two were just CD keys. When I tried to register them, I couldn't because the WOW registration site stops working when you're trying to access that part of it from China. So I did what any addict would do and bypassed that little problem with an IP proxy. Voila, two accounts registered without the need to purchase a flight back to the United States of America.

I didn't want to let one of those accounts go, so I wrote more emails to Blizzard and kept faxing my personal information, then after a month (around 6 weeks in total) I had two out of three of my accounts back. The last one I didn't even try to get back because I didn't have any characters worth saving on it and I figured it was a chance to cut my monthly expenses down.

Moral of the story. Blizzard might actually give a shit if you're not doing anything contrary to the essense of the game. I got my accounts back after they took 6 weeks to thorougly analyze what I was doing with them. I even violated a term, but I still got it back.

A company will put these rules in place so they can enforce them if someone is abusing the system and they can choose to look the other way if you're not. The account sharing portion of the terms are more than likely there so you do not devalue the time of the game by having one character power leveled (whether by a company or a group of friends) and it just absolves so many he said she said headaches. They can simply ban the account if they feel there is even a hint that you're doing something that harms the game. If you're not doing something that harms the game? Yep you don't get banned because no one ever knows.

As far as multiboxing with accounts not in your name? again, maybe yes maybe no.