Then Blizz would see the access from the same location and not care. They’d still not restore anything and they could still take action on the account if a player opened a ticket and acted like they didn’t know what was going on.
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now im confused.
I’m talking personal relationships. You are acting like I mean handing out national secrets to strangers. Sorry if your judgment or trust in people close to you is so bad you are horrified at the thought of a family member or well know friend occasionally playing on your account.
For people that hand out access to anyone well they aren’t smart.
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Yes, you are and it’s a terrible suggestion that someone do this. Every example I’ve given we’ve seen people come to the CS forums with.
Yes, could someone get away with making such a bad choice? Absolutely. Does that mean you should suggest it’s okay? Nope. It’s bad advice and compromises account security.
But you’re right, stupid people will play stupid games and win stupid prizes.
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You still don’t get it. Reply that you do but nope you don’t.
No one is gonna buy their own account to play a game at a friends house once in a while.
You log the game in for the person to play. Get it?
I’m also in IT for almost three decades so yes I know about account security .
You assume right away I meant hand the account info over. You assume the person wants to do nefarious things - not just “hey man can I level this character for a bit?”
I’m done. Have a good night.
Instead, they can log into their own account…gasp!! Imagine that!
Thank goodness you’re done with such bad advice. We all appreciate it. Enjoy your evening.
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Whoosh right over your head again!!!good god !
I love that you think if you say it went over my head, that you’re suddenly not giving bad info.
Thought you were done? Please be done. I get you don’t care about breaking the rules, but most players try to play above board.
It speaks volumes to your character and credibility.
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Accounts and subscriptions are a single person lease for access to rented digital assets. Abide by the terms of that lease. If you really want somebody else to play on your account, have them read all the terms of the lease and tell you that they understand that anything they do is permanent and will not be arbitrated by customer support.
This is why guild houses won’t be a thing. There’s no such thing as communal ownership written into the subscription, and support will not arbitrate if a guild leader quits and takes everything with him or her. Same thing with your player account. So treat it as your own and respect it and protect it as your own. Precisely because it’s not yours.
The path of least resistance is probably to have somebody open their own personal account, then buy them a game card from Best Buy (or any other approved retailer that still offers them). You get to have a friend join you, and that person is 100% responsible for their own actions.
If the account is on your bnet, nope. If she has her own bnet and you want to pay for hers thats fine.
Spouse get mad… Deletes everything on account and gives away every piece of gold and disenchants every item and then sells those items on the auction house and finally gets rid of that money too.
Owner puts in ticket crying that it wasn’t them and they shouldn’t be held responsible. Blizz then responds. Not our problem. They had access and were authorized to use the account.
Spouse does something that causes entire Bnet account to be banned
Owner puts in ticket crying that it wasn’t them and they shouldn’t be held responsible. Blizz then responds. Not our problem. They had access and were authorized to use the account.
So, nope. It’s better the way it is. Your account and their account with no sharing.
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It would be nice to be able to ‘share’ all that stuff to another, but with too many illicit services for specific items, mounts, etc, as well as security risks why they don’t do it. I don’t think they will ever ‘allow’ it, or make it allowed in the future.
idk bro just have them play on your pc, none of us are gonna come into your house and check. lmao
but if u get caught and banned idk sucks to suck
and blizzard doesn’t want you to do that
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I think that rules dumb. I think people should be able to do what they like with their account and bear any consquences that are incurred. I am aware these ‘are’ the rules and we all did agree to them, but I think they should be changed. Its not so much Blizzard wanting utmost account security as it is them wanting another copy of the game bought and a sub purchased.
Please note, I am not arguing what the rules ‘are.’ I am stating my view that they are too restrictive and anti consumer in most normal circumstances. I didn’t say you made the rules or anything of the sort.
Let me give you some words of wisdom…you don’t own your accounts…Blizzard does…they can do whatever they want with them…just cause you pay a sub fee and buy the expansions still doesn’t mean you own the account …you are basically renting your account and characters…its their Game and their rules…and its their Sandbox.
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Do we know what the process is going forward?
I have a second battle.net account in my name that is exclusively used by my son, who is 9, and therefore not able to have the account in his name.
I’m hoping there will be some kind of process at that time so he doesnt lose the characters he will have been playing for years at that point.
I found this blue response:
This is a real thing, but rare - in these instances you set up a guardian account which you have “parental” access to.
Sort of. Your license key (username and password, in the case of Battle.net) is yours, and is treated as you having ownership of it. It’s the contents of that account that belong to Blizzard. Renting the characters, yes, renting the account, no.
But that’s what the OP is planning to do anyway. They want to buy another copy of the game and pay another sub. They just want to see the rules changed so that they can have their spouse use the same battle.net account.
I’m saying, that not only is that rule unlikely to ever change, it’s also a really bad idea when it comes to things we’ve seen actually happen when people do violate that rule.
We’ve seen angry spouses, angry kids, friends, roommates, besties…you name it and we’ve seen it where they logged on and caused havoc. Then they come crying to the forums when Blizz won’t clean up their mess.
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