This is incorrect. You can call any law office and ask for an opinion you can trust, if you don’t trust me, presuming you live in the EU or US. Generally this would be a free consultation, for what that’s worth - it’s a low stakes question.
EULAs are never creating laws. There is a reason it says “Blizzard does not recognize the transfer of Accounts.”
Ask them what? If I can sell something I don’t own? They are going to tell me no. That I can’t sell a Battlenet account any more than I can sell an apartment I rent.
We are the account holders, renters, we have access based on the terms of the EULA. That is it.
It would be fraud to sell access to a Bnet account that you have no rights to sell and will be closed.
The police are not going to come knocking down your door for it because Blizzard is not going to press charges. It would be handled in a civil court if they ever bothered but the costs are not worth it.
“Is it legal for me to sell a Blizzard account?”
Also:
It would also be fraud for Blizzard to give your account to someone else without your input.
Nope it can’t be passed on to though being inherited…
Heck yea man.
If anyone wants to share their account with me just post it here and I’ll pick it up later.
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Who pissed in your oatmeal this morning? Calm down.
Yes it would. You are the assigned account holder. You paid for access to Blizzard’s assets (Bnet account, game license, chars, items, etc.) Blizzard will not transfer that. With very rare exceptions backed by legal documentation. They used to split off a child’s license from an adult’s account. They will also change a name for marriage/divorce with the right documents.
We are not talking ownership though, we are talking ACCESS to the account. That is what we have and pay for, access. The actual account and everything on it is owned by Blizz.
So do you mean “can I sell my access to a Blizzard account registered to me?”. I assume they will tell you it won’t get you thrown in jail, but it will likely get it closed. Just like selling your non-transferable Season Pass to Theme Park would get confiscated if you tried to sell it to someone else. They would go to the gate and the pass would be taken away.
These fall under the user input I mentioned.
Yes.
You will see no legal action taken against you, because it is legal. I am not arguing that it is smart to sell an account, nor that you are subject to any protections by law for doing so - only that Blizzard’s only recourse is to close the account or deny access.
It is legal.
No idea what Op expected here. MVPs are going to die on the hill of telling you not to break any rules, they wouldn’t be MVPs otherwise.
The idea that it’s routine for a spouse with access to log in and delete all your stuff + disenchant + sell it + delete character is something I’ve never seen in 15+ years of gaming. Does it happen? Sure. Is it even remotely often? No.
Would blizzard know if you shared an account in the same house? No. Parents have their kids do dailies, streamers do this live on twitch daily.
If you’re account sharing outside of your home, your chance of getting actioned are higher.
Tl;dr in same house = fine even if mvps want to die on a hill of saying it’s not. The only thing they can say to deter you is that they’ve seen bad things happen before.
Everyone else will tell you its fine.
If you pay for a 2nd account and its sub fee, Blizz should have absolutely zero legal right to ban you for then letting your spouse use that. It’s trash, and they don’t care about providing their players with a good experience when they refuse to fix anything in beta/ptr and force Live to deal with all the trash that comes from it. They can’t pretend to care about “integrity” when it comes to someone making a 2nd account, buying a sub for that account, and then letting their spouse use it. Should 100% be illegal to even think they can.
head desk You can’t sell what you don’t OWN. Seriously. You are talking about selling access to Blizzard’s assets. Call it what you want, but you can’t actually sell the account. You are selling the email/password access login info. That is all you have.
I can’t sell an apartment or house I rent either just because my name is on a lease and I have keys.
I can sublet the apartment - if the lease allows - but otherwise I can’t sell access to the dwelling either.
Anyway - nice fall evening and I am going to head outside for a bit.
Wait… do you think it’s illegal to sell a wow account?
Glad we agree. As usual when it comes to discussions on this topic, people get way too caught up in details that don’t matter.
You can sell that access to your account. Whether it’s usable notwithstanding. You will never be punished by law for this.