Battlenet Accounts

[Catamer]

what does one b-net account buy you?
Does it get you free character transfers between accounts?
if it doesn't give you free transfers there really isn't any feature other than getting a blizcon pet... which I don't think I'll ever make it to a blizcon.

[Ualaa]

I'd imagine you could transfer between battle net accounts, by contacting wow billing.

Multiple accounts on one B.Net account gets you:
- Much faster transfers between your own accounts, that are all on that B.Net account. You still pay the same price as before.
- The ability to switch from one account to another, within account management via a drop down menu.
- In the future, your friends list will be tied to your B.Net account, so you can chat with friends who are playing StarCraft II, while you're in WoW.
- You can set a new secret question for the B.Net account, even if you don't remember the secret question for the wow account.

[sedory]

When they first offered the option to switch to using b.net account, I switch my three accounts over to it. I haven't boxed in about 2 weeks, but the 1 authenticator I used worked fine for all three accounts at the same time, was this authenticator change something new?

Overall, I'm waiting for them to look more into the option of allowing BoA items transferable between accounts under the same B.Net account.

[Ualaa]

I cannot say it will or will not happen.
But I'd be surprised if you could trade BoA's across accounts.
Even within the same B.Net group.

The authenticator change was with the most recent patch.
Pretty much the time they announced B.Net merges will become mandatory soon.

Separate B.Net accounts lets you enter game via one authenticator.
And still have all the protection of an authenticator.
Essentially choosing quick entry to the game and the current account management options, over the new B.Net account features.

Merging gives you the 30 second debuff (per account beyond the first) - Delayed Entry to Game.
But then you get all the good stuff they wish to implement for B.Net accounts.

[BobGnarly]

what does one b-net account buy you?
Does it get you free character transfers between accounts?
if it doesn't give you free transfers there really isn't any feature other than getting a blizcon pet... which I don't think I'll ever make it to a blizcon.

I'm not sure it buys you a lot right now, but they've been talking about future advantages. For example, they've mentioned that they might make it so heirloom items can be sent to any wow account in your bnet account. Things like that.

[valeriinet]

Separate B.Net accounts lets you enter game via one authenticator.
And still have all the protection of an authenticator.

I have the same problem as everyone else has with the authenticator, but for me it seems to be
different. I used 3 diffrent b.net accounts and then it stopped working with logging on with one code
from the authenticator, I needed a new code for every account.

I thought the problem was 3 accounts so I merged all my wow accounts to one b.net account and it
worked for me for 1 week then the same problem occured again....problem is I dont want to stop
using the authenticator but it´s a bitch to login everytime when you need to enter 3 different codes.

[Ualaa]

I have 5 B.Net accounts, each with one WoW account.
The same authenticator is associated with each.

I log in, with one password broadcast and then one authenticator code broadcast.

My extra authenticators have arrived.
So I now have 5 authenticators.
Hopefully 1 retains the ability to log all accounts in at once.
I like to get all accounts in fast.

If they move towards 1 code is good for only 1 account.
I will be able to password and authenticator one account.
PiP swap and repeat.
Probably into the game under a minute with five accounts.
Still more of a hassle then the current time/effort.
But that will be better then an imposed 30 second cooldown after each account logs in.