Account Shenanigans

[Tehtsuo]

I recognize this is beating a dead horse, and people here might not have answers for me, but I'm asking this in several places. I'm working on consolidating my accounts to avoid any unpleasant account suspensions on down the road. To date, I've got 3 accounts under my name, and two that aren't. Rather than get a kick in the teeth from Blizzard at 70, I plan to solve the problem before it becomes a problem now, while my characters are young. I'm looking at buying two more battlechests. However, one of the characters is on my brother's account. (Paid for by me, levelled by me, he's never logged into it, was a birthday present he didn't care to use) I've been looking on the character move process info, and here's what I found:

Who is eligible for account-to-account transfers?

Transfers between accounts are only allowed between accounts where you are the subscriber. We do not support the transfer of characters between friends, guild mates, or family members. To conduct an account-to-account transfer, you will have to answer the 'secret question' for the destination account, and the last name on both accounts must match.

His last name is the same as mine, I know the answer to the secret question, I receive the emails for the account, etc, etc. The only thing not me on the account is the first name. I recognize nobody here can speak for Blizzard, but anyone have any ideas if I can pull off a character move and by doing so only have one character to level up to match the rest of my team instead of two?

[The IT Monkey]

I can tell you for a fact that you can transfer that character. I recently transfered a 54 priest to my brothers account because I have a 60 preist and he has none... didn't have a problem.

[opt]

Why not just use your brothers name?
I fucked up big time when i did mine and hope i just dont get busted. A good friend of mine online didnt want his wow account anymore so he gave it to me, i didnt want 2 accounts a few years ago so i sold mine :S and continued to use hes. So when it came time to start boxing I made 4 accounts in hes name. So according to blizzard I have a different identity. The only problem really is the account my misses uses is in the name of my older brother. I regret not just buying 5 new accounts and disabling my main account for the time being.

[Tehtsuo]

Well, I'm not so much concerned about blizzard changing passwords or anything like that. I receive the emails so I'd be able to just log in and change it back, whatever. I'm worried about if they were to get really finicky (High exposure is a byproduct of multiboxing, so my accounts will get looked at a lot I'm sure) and doing a permaban for account sharing. Since I know I have no choice to roll one because the account is a friends (he hasn't played in years but Blizzard won't care about that) I figured I'd do two to avoid that.

If you guys think I'm clean with my brothers account, I'm comfortable with that. I'm asking here cause I know this community is very cautious about account issues, so I trust your opinions. If the majority here think it's safe I'll go with that. I believe now is the time to make sure everything's legit, cause I know I plan to do this on a permanent basis. It's lots of fun!

[elo]

I xfered by Warrior from my wife's account to a new one for the same reason. As stated by Blizz it's technically disallowed but the transfer thing let me get away with it and now I'm 100% undeniably legit. Annoying but small price compared to losing what is already some 8 days (almost 200 hours) worth of leveling on that toon. If I'd known about this stupid rule I would have never put it in her name to begin with. Grrrr...

[The IT Monkey]

I have one account that I inherited from a friend, I didn't pay him for the account (we did an even swap, my CoV for his WoW) and now I am wishing I hadn't.

I don't think I have been reported once even though I have had several people state the tired "/reported" to me. I am now a tad worried due to the fact that I have a level 62 Warlock on that account. Granted it wouldn't kill me if it was closed but I just don't know if it's worth the risk of having all my accounts closed.

I say transfer the character on your brothers account over and start leveling a fresh toon for the one you can't transfer. But that is just my advice.. not necessarily what I am doing.

[Tehtsuo]

I have one account that I inherited from a friend, I didn't pay him for the account (we did an even swap, my CoV for his WoW) and now I am wishing I hadn't.

I don't think I have been reported once even though I have had several people state the tired "/reported" to me. I am now a tad worried due to the fact that I have a level 62 Warlock on that account. Granted it wouldn't kill me if it was closed but I just don't know if it's worth the risk of having all my accounts closed.

I say transfer the character on your brothers account over and start leveling a fresh toon for the one you can't transfer. But that is just my advice.. not necessarily what I am doing.

I hear that. My t5 paladin is on an account that's not under my name. I got it as a level 70 paladin with mixed greens and blues from a guild member who stopped playing and handed it over permanently. Now it's all epic, with some Black Temple gear. I don't plan to be upset if it goes byebye, cause I don't even have the guy's contact info anymore so it would just take a pw change to perma-deny me access. That's part of the reason I decided to start multiboxing with new accounts. They're mostly under my name (hopefully all under my name by the end of the week) and I can be as blatant as I want while only fearing a decision by Blizz to stop supporting multiboxing.

[Khayos]

Even though there is no official stance on this I recently spoke to a customer service person (EU) that explained had my 6th account been in my surname (my wifes maiden name is what it is currently on) I could have changed it as we have the same address / post code and I even paid for it. However because it was a different surname even though i had paid for it for well over 1 year they wouldn't let me.

My opinion would be to sort it all now. Get 5 accounts that are yours from the get go, your name, your details, your email and secret question, all yours. That way, 2 years down the line when you have 12 lvl 100's and 14 DK's they can't turn around and ban you for a slight oversight that you made now.

Eliminate all possibilities now and save yourself some hassle that may come in the future. You will have piece of mind and a clear consience, all it takes is some nub to open a ticket saying "I think he is account sharing" to alert the GM's suspicion and to start looking at things he may have overseen had it been a simple "hes multi boxing". its just something to think about before your heart is broken.

I had my account temporarily suspended when it got hacked but I didn't know it had been hacked as I was away on holiday when it happened and came back to you the message "You account has been banned" when you try to login in and I tell you my heart dropped a thousand feet, to me then it was like having my baby ran over and then reveresed on! It turned out a mate who knew I was away had alerted GM's who had closed the account to be on the safe side. But for those few hours before I found out the story I was mortified and close to crying.

So, after my wall of text crit you, the basis is, start fresh on YOUR accounts where no other judgement could be made and you will box in peace!

Regards,

[thinus]

Even though there is no official stance on this I recently spoke to a customer service person (EU) that explained had my 6th account been in my surname (my wifes maiden name is what it is currently on) I could have changed it as we have the same address / post code and I even paid for it. However because it was a different surname even though i had paid for it for well over 1 year they wouldn't let me.

This actually brings up an interesting question. If you get married and your surname changes then Blizzard must have a way for you to change your surname on the account. They will probably require lots and lots of proof but there must have been a way to get the surname changed.

[Tehtsuo]

Even though there is no official stance on this I recently spoke to a customer service person (EU) that explained had my 6th account been in my surname (my wifes maiden name is what it is currently on) I could have changed it as we have the same address / post code and I even paid for it. However because it was a different surname even though i had paid for it for well over 1 year they wouldn't let me.

My opinion would be to sort it all now. Get 5 accounts that are yours from the get go, your name, your details, your email and secret question, all yours. That way, 2 years down the line when you have 12 lvl 100's and 14 DK's they can't turn around and ban you for a slight oversight that you made now.

Eliminate all possibilities now and save yourself some hassle that may come in the future. You will have piece of mind and a clear consience, all it takes is some nub to open a ticket saying "I think he is account sharing" to alert the GM's suspicion and to start looking at things he may have overseen had it been a simple "hes multi boxing". its just something to think about before your heart is broken.

I had my account temporarily suspended when it got hacked but I didn't know it had been hacked as I was away on holiday when it happened and came back to you the message "You account has been banned" when you try to login in and I tell you my heart dropped a thousand feet, to me then it was like having my baby ran over and then reveresed on! It turned out a mate who knew I was away had alerted GM's who had closed the account to be on the safe side. But for those few hours before I found out the story I was mortified and close to crying.

So, after my wall of text crit you, the basis is, start fresh on YOUR accounts where no other judgement could be made and you will box in peace!

Regards,

Good point. Do you think it'd be risky if I were to transfer that character from the account under my brother's name? My concern is: After I successfully move the character to the account under my name, am I in the clear? Or would Blizzard come after me because the first names don't match after the fact?

Keep in mind, there will be no former owner coming forth to try to contest the character move. My only vulnerability is reports for "Lol botting"