[WoW] Account sharing, when is it ok?

[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.