I know this topic has been brought up multiple times, and that the EULA says you can’t share a battle.net account unless the other person is a minor that you are the guardian of.
However, with the Warband feature now implemented, if i pay for a second subscription fee after paying for a second license, can i not have my spouse use that account?
I mean, i understand that some people get divorced, but there already is a process for disconnecting a child’s account from their guardian’s account when they turn 18.
It’s not like any new tech has to be made; just an amendment to the EULA. Am i right?
Absolutely not. No two adults are allowed to be on the same battle.net account ever.
In fact, even children should now be on their own account as you can no longer move their characters or wow accounts when they get old enough to have their own.
Edit to add: You’d be amazed.how.many times I’ve seen this go south where a spouse messed with their significant other’s account out of spite and Blizz won’t fix that sort of damage.
Honest question, as an adult, why can they not have their own Bnet account?
You’re saying you will pay for the sub, each license on a Bnet needs either a sub or new expansion purchased anyway, so why not open a Bnet account, they cost nothing.
Exactly. You can still gift the Expansion and game time to the other Bnet account, or gift Balance enough to buy it. So you can pay for both.
There are a ton of good reasons to have humans on different Bnets as well:
It keeps Bnet chats separate
Any account actions only impact one person - much better for security
Can both access all features like pet battles and other things when separate
All mounts, mogs, warband stuff - EVERYTHING is bnet bound. Separating them means someone loses everything which is why they don’t even move kid’s anymore.
I know that currently it is not allowed. I stated that already. I was not asking if it is currently allowed, as i know that it is currently against the EULA.
What I’m asking, does anyone want it to change? Im asking Blizzard to please change it. I want share my mount, pet, toy, and mog collections with my spouse.
If anyone is still confused, I don’t know what to tell you.
Sorry, but it’s not going to happen and to directly answer your question, no I don’t want it to happen. It’s a terrible idea that leads to all sorts of terrible situations.
Then you set them up with their own battle.net account.
Blizz has no idea if you let others play on your account particularly if it’s on the same IP.
You can have fifty characters on one account. Of some of those are yours and some your kids your friends or whomever . They will never know if those people are playing in your house (same network) . Of course only one person can play at a time.
There’s nothing illegal about this. EULAs aren’t laws. Since only one player can actively use a single account at a time there’s no foul here.
Illegal? Who said anything about laws? But what can and will happen is someone will sell something, a kid will use some illicit software, a spouse will delete characters and a friend will buy gold.
When that happens, Blizz won’t do anything to help that player out. They’ll leave the account closed/actioned/suspended.
I get that it’s probably really cool to be a rebel…but let’s not give people terrible advice that does violate the agreement that they have with Blizzard.
While it may not violate laws, Blizzard doesn’t have to allow them to maintain access to their account either. All those pets and mounts they want to share will be locked behind a banned account.
If you have friends that drop in once in a while and play wow on your computer. Then your kid does the same. Without you or some one telling blizzard “yeah so my kid did this” or my friend had a temper tantrum and deleted my characters… how would blizzard know?
Same computer and network information when you play as the account holder.
I didn’t miss the point. I don’t give out terrible advice like you did. We’ve seen so many threads over the years where people didn’t care and thought they’d get away with it only for things to go south.
There was a thread recently where someone was allowing people from a whole different continent have access while they weren’t playing…and they lost all their gold. Blizz is not treating it like a compromise because it wasn’t a compromise. It was account sharing (which is what you’re suggesting is okay).
Player: I want my gold back and my character undeleted because my spouse/friend/kid accessed my account and did stupid things.
Blizzard: Not going to happen. Don’t share your account. We’re banning this one.
Hopefully the OP sees that this is a terrible suggestion. It’s almost embarrassing that you don’t see how bad it is.