[WoW] Account sharing, when is it ok?

[Binaryzero]

To give the final answer to the question, when is sharing an account OK... never!

[Eteocles]

What fur said; as stupid as it is sometimes, not even married couples are allowed to share; ONLY 1 Parent/legal Guardian and 1 Minor Child can "share". I wish they'd allow a little more leniancy but with 10 million players, 9million of which are mouth-breathing fucksmudges who click on "LOLMAXSTATHAX" links or buy plvling thinking they'll "PWN EVERY1 NOW LOLOL" it's what they have to do to protect themselves lol

[Binaryzero]

To give the final answer to the question, when is sharing an account OK... never!

You, an adult, can share your account with one minor child dependant (meaning the child is legally your problem).

if in doubt, go ask blizzard on the customer sevice forums. dual-boxing forums is NOT the appropriate place to ask these types of questions

Right see my post above but there was also people saying spouses can share, so my point is "when in doubt, don't"

[magwo]

The best way to change policy is to vote with your feet and stop paying them money.

Not so easy when they are in a monopoly situation. They don't have real competitors at the moment, which gives customers no power whatsoever.

[Hokusai]

The best way to change policy is to vote with your feet and stop paying them money.

Not so easy when they are in a monopoly situation. They don't have real competitors at the moment, which gives customers no power whatsoever.

From my point of view, and I am sure many others, this comment is totally wrong, I would assume, like many other WoW players, that WoW is your first online game of this type, and that you have not played any of the others. There are lots of alternatives, some good, some bad, some old and some new. If you want to play them you can, if you want to play a decent game, then your options are more limited.

WoW's success, whether good or bad, does not prevent you from not playing if you do not want to. I have played many of these types of games over the years, the only thing I don't like about WoW most of the time are the players, not the game. Claiming that they have a monopoly, when what they have is just a large amount of market dominance is incorrect. 'Play' Second Life if you want an alternative 'game' which has as many subscribers, remember that you in part are paying for massive bandwidth, hosting and maintenance costs and further costs of development too, for a pretty nominal amount each month. That is nothing to be sneezed at.

While their rules may seem to be stringent to some, it's not an uncommon rule amongst online games in general, whether people like it or abide by it or not.

[Vyndree]

[quote='daviddoran',index.php?page=Thread&postID=80 274#post80274]Interesting. It makes sense that only one person can OWN the account, and if I could let my wife PLAY the account, that would be nice, if I ever talk her into playing... I know that with a single account, there'd be no way to tell who was ACTUALLY sitting in front of the computer, but with multiboxing, if suddenly one of my characters gets controlled independantly, would that look suspicous and get me a ban? Or if I had a friend over, and he wanted to take control of one of my chars? [/quote]

Be careful what you're asking for here.

Are you asking the community to help you figure out how to account share with your wife without getting banned? Or your friend?

While discussing what is and isn't against the Terms/EULA is ok (for clarification), if you are confused about the rules you should really speak directly to blizzard. None of us want to get anyone banned, but we are human and do make mistakes so it is typically best to get it straight from the horse's mouth (i.e. Blizzard). If you are asking the community to help you figure out how to sneak around the rules, you'll want to revisit the [url='http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Board&boardID=31']community guidelines[/url] which is found at the rules menu tab on the top of every page.


On a personal note, I agree with some of the other posters here. If you don't agree with the terms of use regarding account sharing, you should not click "I agree" and you should vote with your consumer dollars.


I'm closing the thread because you got the appropriate answer -- you may ONLY share your account with your ONE minor dependant child. If you are confused regarding this policy, you should review the Terms of Use at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/termsofuse.html, the EULA at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/eula.html or the official Blizzard customer service forums. Also see this useful Blizzard Support website article on account sharing.

This is the ToU section you will want to pay attention to:

You agree to these Terms of Use on behalf of yourself and, at your discretion, for one (1) minor child for whom you are a parent or guardian and whom you have authorized to use the account you create on the Service.

3. Establishing an Account.
You may establish one (1) user account (the "Account") on the Service for each Authentication Key you receive from Blizzard. To establish an Account, you will be required to provide Blizzard with certain personal information and the Authentication Key provided to you by Blizzard. Your failure to supply accurate information to Blizzard when requested, or to update that information as it changes, shall constitute a material breach of this Agreement.
During the registration process, you will be required to select a username and a password that are unique to the Account (collectively referred to hereunder as "Login Information"). You may not share the Account or the Login Information with anyone other than as expressly set forth herein.