Multi account question

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In this case the OP wanted a separate account for a separate person.

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I guess that was aimed to those talking about MBing more than anything else. My bad.

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So they want us to input a personal ID or something ?, Jesus Christ, sh*t getting worse than Apple

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That has always been the requirement for a Blizzard Bnet account. You are required to be an adult in your country and use your legal name to create a Bnet account.

When you create or update an Account, you must:

  • provide Blizzard with accurate and up to date information that is personal to you, such as your name, address, phone number, and email address.

Your Battletag (the name we post with) and your char names can be whatever nicknames you want - within the naming rules.

Your real name has never been displayed by Blizzard in public. They do require it, and always have, for several reasons. Mostly you are signing a contract when you agree to the EULA and there are transactions/bnet balance involved in use of the Bnet account. Second, if there are account access issues those are resolved by verifying the ID of the person who the account is registered to.

This has been the case since they created the Bnet account system in 2009 (I think?). Prior to that each game license was free standing “account” and you could name it whatever you liked - usually a nickname/screen name.

The only time this matters really is if someone forgets their password and email for their Bnet - or it is compromised. If they have to prove they are the account holder then Blizz can ask for ID. Blizzard Support - Providing Supporting Documentation

If it does not match the name you entered on the account at creation, they very well may not give the account back. Sadly this has happened to people who chose nicknames/fake names when creating the account and they were unable to reclaim it.

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This is false. i spent all morning sync sniping people in WoW and im sure i was excessively falsely reported by people that misunderstand the rules just as you, because they told me so in a very toxic manner.

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I believe it goes back further than that. I don’t know that much about it except:

  1. I bought the Diablo II Collector’s Edition when it first came out in my area, in 2000.
  2. I bought it from a local software store, not the Blizzard Store.
  3. When I created my Battle․net Account, I was required to furnish my real name and address. (Possibly an email address, I don’t remember. I may have been required to give them my phone number, but again, I don’t remember).

I’ve had the same Bnet Account ever since.

Now, Game Accounts, like in D2, is a different story. You can create as many D2 Game Accounts as you want, name them whatever you like and have up to 8 Characters on each Game Account.

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I don’t remember having to make a Bnet account back then and I DID have D2 and LoD. I remember it as making the online accounts with the 8 chars each, like you said.

I don’t think Blizz sold games directly until Digital Cata did they? I got my D2 at Walmart and my LoD from online somewhere.

I don’t disagree there were Bnet accounts with the real name and stuff before 2009, but in 2009 Blizz forced us all to that if we wanted to play at all. In WoW they gave a penguin pet when you attached your WoW license to your Bnet account. heh.

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I’ll gladly take a copy of those. Giving you credit for them if I use them in posting of course. :slight_smile:

You think this is bad? You must not have been around for the Real ID fiasco back in 2010. They were actually considering forcing real names to be shown on the forum posts. Besides the expected very vocal and angry posts, some players actually went and cyberstalked one of the CMs’ girlfriend and released her information publicly to force Blizzard to see just how damaging just a name can be, especially if you have a reasonable guess on geolocation associated with that name. It wasn’t a good thing to do mind you, but that’s actually what it took to make Blizzard back down.

And there are some that I know who have had the personally devastating experience of being doxed. And believe me, when that happens, you can’t go back in time and erase the damage that was done.

Currently Blizzard’s requirement of ID is limited to procedural issues such as account reclamation after being hacked, removing an authenticator you can’t otherwise get off of your account (physical version especially if the battery is dead), or removing parental controls like I have on my account. Yes, I have parental controls on my account even though I’m 44. It was, and to the best of my knowledge, still is, required in order to fully block Real ID sharing to any other account for any reason. That was never fully removed from the parental controls, only partially. :frowning:

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Ok, tell me what’s the forbidden thing then.

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Oh gosh no. I have been such a mess the past several years with organization that I can’t even consider handing off my docs. You already have the BIG document I kept which was the Cosmetics/Wings/Pets thread. Most of it these days is in my head.

I USED to be much better organized. Just open a word doc and quote copy paste posts for common issues then you can pop those in when you see one. The forum quote of course captures the info for the person who wrote it.

Perusoe, Maskraider, and Boubou have some fantastic templates saved up they use a lot in the Bug Report forums. Meteorblade can also have good info and I am thinking of saving DTMAces mutiboxing without software post just for helping people run multiple accounts even if they just alt tab.

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Eh, I could always try to tidy them up for ya. Or not, either way. I’m always looking for some whacky adventure to some weird destination. :stuck_out_tongue:

And yes, that cosmetic doc is big. and messy looking too at first glance since I had to make it that way in order to not have the forum parser break the spaces in between sections. Discourse could really use some serious QA work. :wink:

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With the old forums gone it is actually annoying. So much of what I had used links. Things like how the “bad luck protection” works, or why Magic find went away - with the full dev explanation, not just my “here is how it works now”.

But no, you don’t get the doc stock pile.

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Oh fine, be that way. *Yoinks pickle and runs away*

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It may have been when I registered D2 online that I was required to create a Battle․net Account and provide the required information. That was 20 years ago.  

You may be right. Back then, I never even looked for games online. We had a huge CompuServ store in our area. (Bigger than most of our department stores). And they carried everything you could think of for computers, hardware and software. If they didn’t have what you wanted in the store, which was rare, they would order it for you.

It has since closed. Probably since many people buy online now. But, they still have a warehouse located here. I don’t think it’s open to the public though.

Anyone is welcome to use any of the templates I’ve posted in the Perusoe’s Testing Grounds or anywhere else for that matter.

Sometimes I post the syntax I used, which you can just copy/paste into a document and save it on your computer. If I didn’t post the syntax just:

  1. Click Reply under the post that contains the template you want.
  2. Then click the first button on the Reply Editor toolbar (text balloon icon) to quote the entire post.
  3. Select just the template, copy it and paste it in your document.
  4. Finally, Cancel the reply and Abandon it.
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using input broadcasting software to do it is forbidden.

everyone uses input software. how it is applied to the applications running is what they are cracking down on. Hardware can be utilized to clone inputs to separate pc’s all running a different WoW. This is how multiboxing started, the software was just a compact QoL way to do it, so we switchhed. Hardware has advanced drastically and Hardware boxing is just as easy when you get the setup going.

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I start up 4 instances of the game on one computer, and 2 instances on the other.

Two “games,” 4 account characters in one, and 2 account characters in the other.

I never could warm up to the actual “Multibox” software, it was way to finicky, and too difficult to keep all 4 characters synchronized and on the same path. You had to do stupid things like run them all face-first into a wall to get them in step after one or more gets hung up on the geography.

Instead, I just “leapfrog” the characters, moving one, then the other. and most of the actual gameplay is performed by just one of the characters, while the others wait in town or at the door to a Rift while I essentially “carry” the other 3. Or the other one.

Then when it is time to cash in, all the accounts reap the rewards.

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Makes sense but that seems like a lot of work to me. Thanks for the explanation StoneOld.

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Argos

(Multi account question - #37 by Argos-1307)

Makes sense but that seems like a lot of work to me. Thanks for the explanation StoneOld.

This is how I run my 2 accounts and I just do it to powerlevel a hero on the second account after I’ve leveled 1 at the start of a new season.

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So you have 12 upper limbs where each pair of hands controls a keyboard/mouse?

Fascinating.

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With all those docs can you maybe perhaps create some sort of sticky thread or add them into one of the sticky threads?
Common Questions of TOS
Common Questions of EULA
Battlenet TOS (where you can cover silencing and its effect on Diablo as opposed to other bliz products)