Deserves me right I know but the worst thing about having one of your accounts banned for account sharing is...
RE DOING MY FRICKIN MACROS!
Seriously, blizz, if you are going to ban one of my accounts - please don't ban my tank :(
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Deserves me right I know but the worst thing about having one of your accounts banned for account sharing is...
RE DOING MY FRICKIN MACROS!
Seriously, blizz, if you are going to ban one of my accounts - please don't ban my tank :(
wtf
I recruited a mate so he could get 300% exp and let him use my account to quest and kill stuff with so he can take full advantage of it...now blizz banned it *sniff*Quote:
Originally Posted by 'Naysayer',index.php?page=Thread&postID=114040#pos t114040
Was fun :D Didn't like the shitty paladin anyway.
Yes, i got that part. I'm just surprised at all the fail in the post. I'm not going to comment any further on how stupid it was to share accounts, but why do you need to redo your macros as well? Did Blizzard come to your house and delete your macro.cache and then punch you in the baby-makers?Quote:
Originally Posted by 'Knapenburger',index.php?page=Thread&postID=114042 #post114042
Excellent! An abject lesson for the "don't worry, you'll get away with it" crowd :)
I'm not gloating on your misfortune - not at all - but it really is a useful lesson for others who would be more upset in the same circumstances!
If you've got no eight-bit characters in your character names, you can fix the macros up with any old external editor and a bit of search and replace.
You got owned, BIATCH! ;)
How in the world did you get caught? I mean it's pretty hard to get caught unless someone ratted on you and the guy using the account confesses to it.
>How in the world did you get caught?
Reading between the lines, I guess his friend was multi-boxing the two accounts, GM's had some reason to take a look (random hater report) and noticed different account owners.
It could also be that accounts owned by the same person (OP's main account, OP's other account) were logged on simultaneously from different IP addresses.
In fact, the more I think about it, the easier it seems to catch people out, and the better I feel about dual-boxing.com's consistent "don't do it at all" stance :)
Hard to get caught? lol wtf? no...Quote:
Originally Posted by 'daddyd302',index.php?page=Thread&postID=114052#po st114052
It's true. There have been a number of times I've been totally convinced that a GM was watching based solely on the conversations I had just had with random morons in the game. The bottom line is to NOT do anything you wouldn't want Blizzard reps to see.Quote:
Originally Posted by 'Fursphere',index.php?page=Thread&postID=114087#po st114087
http://forum.blueharvest.net/html/em...s/paranoid.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by 'Fursphere',index.php?page=Thread&postID=114087#po st114087
But Yeah, don't share accounts.
How many people have to get banned before you realize. They track who logs in, its obvious when something is fishy..
OP you are lucky they only banned one, i thought they banned all of them.
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Dont mind the gems, I had just gotten done leveling JC at the time.
Bravo my friend those are some great names :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Crayonbox',index.php?page=Thread&postID=114132#pos t114132][url='http://img504.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wowscrnshot081608024143po3.jpg
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO knapppeeeeeeeeeen!
btw i acount shere all the tiem aind it has never happend to me :S werd.
Bad luck :(
When I made my accounts I stupidly made 3 of them with false names, then read that people get reported/banned for it, so I promptly talked to a GM.
After a quick convo with him I feel happy boxing with them, as he was saying that I shouldn't get banned, and if I do then I can talk to the GM's to work something out... yada yada yada.
I would say the worst thing about being banned for account sharing is whining about the consequences of account sharing to the people who TOLD YOU not to account share....
....of course that's just my opinion. ;)
You're not getting any sympathy from me. Particularly since your "problem" has a super easy fix ;)
Breaking the rules is breaking the rules.
I love this part. I always laugh my self silly when people tell me this.Quote:
Originally Posted by 'daddyd302',index.php?page=Thread&postID=114052#po st114052
I have / had a number of people on my server asking me to "level up a toon for me... use my account, I share it with my friends all the time and never get caught". It amazes me that some people are so ignorant about the dangers of account sharing and how easy it can be for Blizzard to detect when its being shared by multiple people.
Logging in from "2 different IP-adresses" has nothing to do with getting caught. I have 3 different ISP's, 1 Fibre connection for general use, 1 adsl for work + as a backup connection and 1 mobile connection (3g, for the laptop). You can be pretty sure they are on very different IP's all the time. If I log an account on my laptop, and 3-4 others on another pc, then multibox - then yes, I'm multiboxing from several different IP's and machine-ID's at the same time. This is not a problem.Quote:
Originally Posted by 'Otlecs',index.php?page=Thread&postID=114053#post1 14053
What IS a problem, is if you "borrow" :cursing: !! an account from a friend, and run it ON THE SAME FRICKIN' pc! Yes, your PC has a unique ID - and YES, it will be logged. Every time.
Now, if you log in on your own pc and play for a few hours, then log off and your friend who is visiting logs on - then he is using the same ID, but not simultanously - and this is not accountsharing.
You should be aware, that talking about accountsharing is also very stupid, as all whispers, says, emotes, yells, guildchat and otherwise ofcourse is being logged to and from every character.
If you really wanna know how much Blizzard actually logs and archives from this game, take a look at the Achievement system in WotLK - there are oldworld achievements coming out of the bazooka... and those are built from logs dating back to launch.
Bottomline - as Jim Carey so abtly puts it in "Liar Liar": STOP BREAKING THE LAW ASSHOLE! :D
I can assure you that it does, or at least CAN. Especially if those IP addresses are from geographically disparate areas.Quote:
Logging in from "2 different IP-adresses" has nothing to do with getting caught.
The fact that you haven't been banned for multiboxing from multiple IP addresses isn't an enormous surprise to me since you own all the accounts. Duh.Quote:
I'm multiboxing from several different IP's and machine-ID's at the same time
I never said it was.Quote:
This is not a problem.
Read my post again.
I was pointing out a small number of the many, many possible ways that people could get caught for account sharing because somebody thought it took a confession scribed in blood to get caught.
Given the number of PCs I have here and the number of accounts my wife and I regularlly run from a variety of those machines, I could pick holes in your SID examples, but they'd be as fatuous as your IP address example.
Sharing accounts is foolish, plain and simple.
I reckon Blizz should ban you for your horrible mutilation of the English language. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by 'Skuggomann',index.php?page=Thread&postID=114166#p ost114166
Damn that was english? i thought i was drunk for a second and fluent in german or something.Quote:
Originally Posted by 'Stealthy',index.php?page=Thread&postID=114399#pos t114399
hs nglish sms ok 2 me. Wt didt u undrstd?
Always have a backup copy of the wtf folder somewhere so you can get yur macros back easy.
I understood everything, as i said i though i was fluent. I just didn't know what language i was fluent in ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by 'Sam DeathWalker',index.php?page=Thread&postID=114416#p ost114416
(and no, i'm not a native english speaker)
ofcourse you can burn holes in what I say - however:
My previous guild was actually approached by a GM - he asked very politely, why the entire guild suddenly all were connected from 1 IP-adress, geographically located in Denmark of all places, where as 10 minutes earlier, the guild was connected to the wow-servers from 45+ different locations all over Europe. We explained the situation, this was back when Telia had several peering issues with other major ISP's, which hit some regions harder than others. Certain british adsl customers had 10.000ms pingtime, and that made for some really horrible healing on Nefarion ;)
I had access to a very large fibre connection back then, and still do. So I had setup a VPN dialer, that my entire guild tunnel'ed their traffic through. By sending their traffic to me first, and letting me peer directly with Telia through a server at work, I reduced their lagtime/pingtime down to about 330ms on average - enough to finish both BWL and MC without any hiccups from disconnected maintanks, healers or otherwise.
He said that was an awesome way to circumvent a problem that Telia had to sort out with their respective peers, and wished us best of luck. Had the IP been in China, it might have turned out differently.
But, I'm arguing stuff that I can't really be arsed arguing about.
When it all comes down to it, in each and every case, Blizzard has a bunch of logs and information, and a subjective person reviews these logs, and acts accordingly to guidelines and probable his own "sense" of what is happening. Ban or no ban, hope his coffey was good that morning, if you're deviating too much from what could be seen as the "norm".
And keep the peace, grow some trees and dont share your account with anyone.
There's no argument to be had. We're violently agreeing.Quote:
But, I'm arguing stuff that I can't really be arsed arguing about.
Your experience with tunneling demonstrates my point that IP addresses are one of many red flags that Blizzard actively monitor and pursue.
I love the FUD. Some of these issues are straight up fact, some are flat out conjecture, and many are unsubstantiated possibilities.
The fact is, that account sharing is against the rules, and Blizzard does ban for it.
The fact is, people share accounts every day and never get banned.
The fact is, multiboxing brings you ABOVE THE RADAR, and it's just like the crack in my windshield, I'll NEVER have a cop pull me over because I have a crack in the bottom corner of my windshield... but once he pulls me over for excessive speed, he's likely to ticket me for that just because I'm being a dipshit on another issue (The speed, attitude about him talking to me, whatever).
Multiboxing puts you in the limelight, at which point blizzard is required to examine your activities, make sure you aren't breaking their rules, and ban you if you are. This way when players say "But blizzard lets MBers get away with anything because of the monies!!!1!!" blizzard can say "BS, we ban them like anyone else."
Why does there have to be an epic conversation on this issue every time someone says "My pee pee got smacked"...
That made me grimace IRL.Quote:
"My pee pee got smacked"...
;(
They definitely track ip addresses.
I also believe that they have automated flagging of certain situations.
I received a ban when I logged in to one of my accounts. I was working away from home and logged in from a geographically distant ip address. This kicked my daughter who was playing on the account at the time back at my home address.
I was able to get the account reinstated when I explained that I worked away from home during the week and that the other player was my child. From that point on I only played characters on account 1 and only let the kids play on account 2 - until I got a job closer to home.
It would be incredibly easy to detect this scenario happening and to have an automated ban or automated report generated for a human to investigate.