Question for those familiar with billing and names and such...

[zhenyalix]

or better question... has anyone with this specific senerio actually seen a problem from blizzard >.<

[zhenyalix]

ehh excuse my flaming i just find it absurd that to be legit i'll need to buy a 6th acocunt and move all the toons over 'just because' the money isn't the issue, its more of a just being an irritating annoyance... still think i will be calling them before hand >.<

[gbremset]

GMs will see you run through town (they play WoW too you know... ) and they'll be like "wtf.. I better check those guys out". (one of the most arrogant jerks I've ever played /raided with was a GM). You WILL get caught.

Having been one (It's over 6 months ago, so I can mention it, as long as I don't give away any secrets (As part of my contract of work)) I can tell you that most GM's are not arrogant jerks, but normal players like you and me.. who would rather go "omg.. look at that.. it's SO cool", when they recieve a report that someone has hacked the game and is playing around in Stratholme with 5 mages... Then zone in to the instance and watch you have a go at it, while being invisible.. (That's where I saw multiboxing for the first time)

A GM is in no way allowed to investigate anything on his own, but must stick to the ticket system. No GM can open anyone's account and view it, without that account being tied to a ticket that that GM is working on. (Very very very strictly monitored... )

[Drizzit]

Continue playing and potentially get banned later, after you character is 70 with full gear etc

That would be my luck. That is why i bought another account instead of using the wife's account. Thank god i read a post that said not to do that, if i didn't i would have 2 lvl 50 toons on that account that i would have to start over.

On a side note:
I know account sharing is okay for 1 minor. So here is the question my child is under 18. I let him/her use the account for themselves. They turn 18, they now have a couple t10 toons (just saying high lvl, cause they are not born yet), do you think blizz will let them transfer there toons to there own accounts? Or if i created the account in there name and have my toons on there, when they are 18 can i transfer them to my account? If you think about it legally they cannot create an account (there name cannot be the account name) sense they cannot legally accept the TOS.

I sort of hope that the kids don't multi box. She wants 2 of them so that would be 15 accounts a month. That is $225 a month and $2,700 a year. Hell they are going to pay for the accounts then...lol

[Drizzit]

Having been one

Would it be possible to talk about some of the things about being a gm in another thread? I would love to hear some of the stories and what you can do. Rather hear it from someone that has been one instead of rumors and the ghetto gm out there.

[Drizzit]

ehh excuse my flaming i just find it absurd that to be legit i'll need to buy a 6th acocunt and move all the toons over

If the accounts are not in the same name then you will not be able to transfer the toons. Some people where able to do that, but they where lucky, if they catch you, you could probably get both accounts band.

[Xuthus]

Really, what is the chance that a gm will go snooping around in the billing? I told my situation yesterday on another thread.Is it you think that all boxers will be suspect to account trading? I've seen account trading happening all around me guildies ,friends,and family .I think the chances are slim that you'll be targeted.

For me I'm going to continue my boxing with the accounts I own ,tho my kids used thier names to activate them I am still within the TOU as I read it.if I get banned F wow....on to a bigger and better MMO. Frankly wow's getting aged.

[Talamarr]

Here is the million dollar point:

With ANY rule, there is a chance that if you break it, you may never ever get caught; account sharing, botting, gold selling, whatever. But the point is that this community has a strict no-tolerance rule on encouraging people to break the ToU, even if there is a next to nothing chance of getting caught. Once you start down the path of telling people, "well, some guy has been getting away with for a few years so I'm sure you'll be fine", you open a whole can of worms that no one here wants to deal with.

The fairness of Blizzard's policy is certainly open for debate but not here. A better place is their suggestion forums.

[PyrostasisTDK]

Alrighty, so talked with a guy at billing and was informed Im screwed. I told him about the sequential account names, that they were a gift, that they had never been used by anyone but me, and that it was simple customer error as no other MMO is anal on these regards. He cheerfully informed me that I could buy 4 more accounts for 120.00+ bucks and be perfectly fine, he also informed me that I was in violation of the rules, and if I continued playing he couldnt stop me but I would most likely be banned.

The rest of the conversation got rather heated, so need to add that here...

Few things Id like to point out.

#1 it took 2 hours to get through their busy phone number... I dont understand why they dont upgrade their call center.
#2 There was 0 flexibility, as a customer, that rubs me extremely raw.

I understand there is an element here that hates to even so much as question blizzard in anyway form or fashion... then there is another element here thats legitimately pissed that a multibillion dollar company has poor customer service.

Rules are Rules, but ever once in a while rules get broken accidentally. Customers shouldnt need to pay 100.00 because they didnt read a 12 page document in legalese, especially when the rules are completely different than ANY other mmo.

[Xuthus]

Yeah that 45-60 mill a month is not enough revenue to support a call center along with all the developers . Hmm um maybe it is .but it doesn't affect the blizz only thier customers