Okay, who is this?

[shaeman]

Prepared I apologise.

I should have said that if this person is doing what he is accused of he should be banned.
There was an assumption of guilt on my part, based on a one sided account from someone I don't know personally.

I should remember to get both sides of a story before making any judgement whatsoever.

[KvdM]

http://us.blizzard.com/support/artic...rticleId=20460

"Limitations placed on Account Access
The ToU speaks extensively about what you may and may not do with a World of Warcraft account. This section highlights a few passages from the ToU that are most relevant to this policy. The core message is that you, and only you (with the exception of a minor authorized to use an account by a parent or guardian), should be accessing an account registered in your name."



http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/legal/termsofuse.html

"Establishing an Account.
Prior to (or in lieu of) creating a user account on the Service (a "WoW Account"), or using an existing WoW Account, you may be required to establish a separate account (a "Blizzard Account") on Blizzard’s centralized account system. When creating these accounts, you may be required to provide Blizzard with certain personal information, financial information and an unused Authentication Key provided to you by Blizzard. You agree that you will supply accurate information to Blizzard when requested, and that you will update that information promptly after it changes."

[shaeman]

Good question. The reason is so that if an accident in typing into trade chat or other chat channel occurs which got sent by all characters intead of one character that was intended to be sent from, and someone submits a spam report, there won't be any further investigation by a GM into it if the accounts have different names. That's the first thing they check.

I don't want to block sending the slash character / to my clients so I am careful to make sure PAUSE is on before typing into trade. However, sometimes I type fast or think that PAUSE is on but it's really not and may accidentally send chat text from all characters.

I suspect between 10 and 36 people typing the exact same thing at the exact same time in trade might still be looked into

[Frosty]

This is a great example of the mob mentality in WoW, and one of the other reasons I stopped reading the WoW boards a loooong time ago. :S

[Catamer]

wow, after reading those posts in the wow forums, I never would have thought I would ever say this but ....even I hope this guy gets all of his accounts banned ... all 40+ of them.

[genocyde]

The only thing I've gotten out of this thread is that I really hope if CS bans prepared they ban Sam by association just for having 30+ accounts.

[Fat Tire]

Since the subject has come up again about my account names, I'll state it again for everyone to see. My accounts have different names on them as the owner. I created them that way. Is there a problem? None whatsoever as long as I am secure in the account information. I have all secret questions/answers, blizzard authenticator attached and all keys used in all of the expansions and the original game because I bought them from the store or online at the Blizzard web site. Different names on accounts does not mean you are sharing accounts. Sharing of accounts is against the Terms of Service of the game and there are ways of determining if that is happening such as tracing TCP/IP addresses, etc.

Unless any of those different names are real people and actually once paid for any of the accounts and have an ip tag to it. Otherwise, you are fine if you just made a name up i.e. Preparedis anidiot and you are the only ever person to pay for said accounts and logged from same IP address as your other accounts.

I got hacked about a year ago and blizzard makes you fax in a copy of your driver lisc. to prove you are the owner of the account. Wonder how that would work.

[Yamio]

I'm not doubting your claim Fur, but most of us are not in your position to hear such things. Were these claims made by an eyewitness? Another multiboxer perhaps? If this is the case, then Prepared should burn.

We all have put too much time and effort into this hobby only to have another of our ilk come along and fuck it up for everyone. Yes, I'm pissed, but I'm also wanting to know out the truth. This affects us all.

This is supposed to be fun and maybe it's the old dude in me talking but what's the point of cheating if you're playing a game? I'll never understand it.

[Coltimar]

Defending win-trading as a grey area boggles my mind. That's one of the oldest no-nos. Two big guilds got banned on Durotan for camping in AV for 12-14 hours a day. They would farm each other for 100k honor and literally conquer no objectives. Just sit around on vent and chat.

[zanthor]

Apparently - on the Realm forums that Prepared plays on "Agewyn" ? - there have been a lot of posts about a large boxer being an ass.

The officials forums are a horrible place - but when there is a trend... you can start to form an opinion. Go dig around and see what you find.

The Black Hand realm forums have had a trend over the past 4 years that "Band of the Black Hand" is run by an incompetent selfish prick who can't organize a guild let alone a raid... I can show you literally hundreds of posts badmouthing me.

At the same time I've been leading a guild in WoW since day 0 of retail, we have raided MC, BWL, ZG, AQ20/40, Naxx 40, SSC, TK, Mount Hyjal, BT, Naxx 10/25, EOE10/25, VOA 10/25, world bosses, etc... We have fluxuated between 100+ active members and as few as 30 active members... at any time you can ask around and you will find people who both love and respect me, some who admit I run a tight raid but a social guild, and others who downright hate me because I've called them out for some reason or another.

I can only imagine that there are people who hold Prepared as the most loathsome player on their server, and will construe any negavite actions that could remotely be blamed on him, on him. The mans been a quiet member of the community here for some time and says he's not doing that which he's accused of... I for one will give him the benefit of the doubt. If he is doing it I have no fear that Blizzard will swiftly handle it, and handle it in such a fashion that it doesn't happen again from that account holder.