Hypothetical question..... What if Blizzard said okay you QQers....

[TheBigBB]

I absolutely think that a class-action lawsuit would succeed for anyone who played with multiple accounts at once. I don't think anyone would get rich off of it, but it'd be enough of a headache to make Blizzard never take this action.

I'm not sure that you'd have enough people and enough of a claim to be granted class action status. I doubt that any lawyer or group of lawyers would seek that status unless there were some pretty big gains to be realized, and it's unlikely that you'll be able to prove monetary damages in a civil court. I think that in a best-case scenario, you'd be able to get your subscription dollars refunded. But if that was the case, no lawyer's going to take that case on contingency (no money to be made), and you'd be crazy to hire him under any other circumstances, since his fees would dwarf anything you'd get from a victorious case.

Maybe you're right, though I figure a lot of people casually own more than one account, which seems like the only real thing you need to show to a court. Blizzard repeatedly supports and defends play using multiple accounts, then turns around and blocks all those accounts from playing again if they are caught online at the same time being used by the account holder. I mean, that would have to be actionable. I just spent a couple hundred bucks buying copies of the game simply because Blizzard told me it was okay.