Keyclone and RAFing yourself are legal right?

[OzPhoenix]

There's your ban.

You might get it sorted by getting customer services to unban them and put them all on one battle.net account, but right now what you've done is technically a bannable offense. No account sharing means no account sharing. You just shared accounts with your brother.

Yeah, this I'm sure is Item #1 on Blizzard-GM-Trainee's Checklist - check all accounts are in exact same name.

If Yes, go to Step #2.

If No, Ban 'em.

As others have pointed out the only legit account sharing is between a child and their legal guardian and as a multiboxer you WILL get reported and looked at every now and then.

[Maleick]

Account Action: Closure
Reason for Action: Terms of Use Violation - Association to Exploitative Accounts

I guess this means maybe your brother had a banned account and they are banning you by association to your brother thininking that it is him?

[jinkobi]

Call them up with your brother present in case they want to talk to him.

Tell them you both live in the same household and explain the situation and they should have you fixed up.

[Daeri]

Why would the belonging of the accounts to different people be a banable offense ? Isn't that the original point of RAF ? No matter all accounts are played on the same IP adress as there may be several computers in the same household. They have no way to tell who is really behind the computer unless you say so publicly, right ?

I'd guess they'd be way more suspicious regarding several accounts being suddenly created and added on the same battle.net account under the same name.

[OzPhoenix]

Why would the belonging of the accounts to different people be a banable offense ? Isn't that the original point of RAF ? No matter all accounts are played on the same IP adress as there may be several computers in the same household. They have no way to tell who is really behind the computer unless you say so publicly, right ?

I'd guess they'd be way more suspicious regarding several accounts being suddenly created and added on the same battle.net account under the same name.

Because you're not allowed to share accounts. This means for example, that I can't have someone else play my characters for me when I'm at work, to, oh, say, level 'em up, or say, oh, sell my account on Ebay and have some random Joe Schmoe play it from here on out.

So, if a Blizzard GM sees a bunch of synchronised characters running around in the world - a clear sign they're all being played by a single person - and checks the account information and finds that the accounts owner information don't all match, it's out with the banhammer for them.

It's perfectly valid for Blizzard to crack down on this sort of behaviour, because without this restriction, power-leveling services, gold-farming, honour/arena farming etc would all be almost impossible to stop, since an account holder could claim to Blizzard that they were just letting they're friend, flatmate, whatever play for a while.

Also, I don't like the OP's chances of getting his accounts back either - if indeed the account holder information doesn't match across all accounts - and merely explaining to Billing that the accounts were his brothers isn't going to help, since the EULA is quite specific about the one, single, instance in which accounts can be legitimately shared - and bros don't cut it.

[Daeri]

OK I see, thanks for the explanation. So that means that Blizzard monitors how newly created accounts are played, either automatically or by asking an employee (GM ?) to check ingame. but I find this strange because all bots or farmers I've got to run across so far were all alone.

[OzPhoenix]

OK I see, thanks for the explanation. So that means that Blizzard monitors how newly created accounts are played, either automatically or by asking an employee (GM ?) to check ingame. but I find this strange because all bots or farmers I've got to run across so far were all alone.

Well, not being a Blizzard employee I can't say for sure that they don't have GM's wandering Azeroth like beat cops looking for suspicious behaviour, but I'd be mightily surprised if they did.

What they rely upon, I think it reasonable to assume is some level of automatic checking (for example, has Account "X" been online continuously for more than "y" hours say), and player reports.

As a multiboxer, you have to accept that you will get reported from time to time by people who don't understand what multiboxing is, by people who think they do and think it's against the EULA, and even by twats who know it's legit, but think it shouldn't be all the same.

This then is what brings the GM eyeballs upon your characters, and since account sharing is permissable (under Blizzards EULA) only between a child and their legal guardian, the very first thing a GM will check up on for multiple characters reported (for whatever reason) is whether or not the account information for all those characters match. If they do, then they'll proceed on with whatever checks it is Blizzard makes to seperate us legitimate multiboxers from genuine hackers/bots/glider users etc - but if the account information doesn't match then they have all the reason they need to ban the accounts right then and there.

Maybe the OP will get the accounts restored - but I doubt it - especially if he tells them that he was using his brothers accounts.

[RobinGBrown]

As far as I know it's _all_ down to player reports. I don't think _any_ GMs cruise around looking for botters/hackers/whatever in remote places or that there are any automatic checks for time/location played - if there were then some of those really stupid botters would have been squashed years ago.

If only one in a thousand players reports you for multiboxing then you'll be reported every few days or weeks. This will mean GMs get tons of reports like this so the check on account names will be the first and easiest to do.

To the OP - the 'Getting started' page of the Wiki (http://www.dual-boxing.com/wiki/inde...etting_started) in the 'Check if your game allows multiboxing' section states 'Make sure that create your game accounts with YOUR name as account holder. Some games(like WoW) don't allow account sharing in their TOS'.

Sorry for your loss, but the good news is that you'll be much better prepared for when you start again.

[Tiburon502]

I use 5 accounts not in the same name and havent had any problems in 5 years

[Velassra]

I use 5 accounts not in the same name and havent had any problems in 5 years

You just haven't been reported yet. Give me one of your toon's names and server and we can test how safe it is, hmmm?