So my siblings and I have a family account, but have separate WoW accounts. We each tried to housing on the PTR to check it out and realized that we all own the same plot. Are we actually going to be stuck with a single plot? Is this just a PTR thing? I know there’s other families out there who aren’t going to enjoy this either if it’s a feature.
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So make separate battlenet accounts, which is what you are supposed to do anyway. WoW accounts are bound to a single battlenet account.
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We pay for separate WoW accounts. There’s whole settings for families. There’s families of 5 all playing on the same account with parental controls. We’ve had it this way since vanilla and are not about to change it now.
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if you’re all paying for separate wow accounts why do you need to all be linked to the same bnet? that just increases your risk of getting hacked or banned because you have no control over what others do with your account
It’s probably not possible to see the statistics on single players paying for multiple WoW accounts vs groups/family of players paying for multiple WoW accounts on the same Battlenet account; despite that I would love to see the numbers. Altoholics and multi-boxers are no joke when it comes to managing and paying for multiple subs.
The problem blizzard would be facing if each WoW account got their own individual houses, a single person with 8 WoW accounts and 2 others, could qualify as a guild and have an entire neighborhood all to themselves. This is the strain on the server load they want to avoid. What difference does it make if that one person had 10 individual battlenet accounts? Account-Wide collections and Warband sharing wouldn’t apply, that is a big downside to doing it that way.
If you want each person to have their own unique household, you’re going to have to contact customer support and have them split each person to their own battlenet account.
We’re siblings, not strangers. We’re in regular contact. We’ve had it since we were children. Would you want to lose ALL of your progress after 20 years of playing? All your mounts, transmogs, pets, titles, etc, and start over from the beginning? We’re no different from some streamer having 10 accounts except we don’t use it to cheese things.
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Sadly, because the Housing system is a Warbound system, I don’t think it’d be possible to have it be specific to the WoW accounts.
They would have to untie it from the warbound system, and make it character specific. Which would drastically increase the server space/processing they would need drastically.
A player like me, with over 20+ alts, would then be possibly taking up over 20+ plots across the neighborhoods. Which wouldn’t be fair at all for many players. As they might love the plot I have on an alt I rarely play, but because its still an active account and character… I’d have that plot.
That, or degrade the current Warbound system from being the entire Bnet account to just the specific WoW accounts. Which, I’m sorry, but I am definitely not for.
You may be able to create a ticket with Blizzard, and see if they would be willing to help you and your family split the old Family shared Bnet account into seperate accounts while keeping the WoW licenses and characters history. But, no gaurantees there.
Unfortunately, that’s not an intended way to use multiple WoW accounts. It’s meant to be one battle.net account per person.
It’s similar to how all of your accounts share the Warband Bank, and you share all mounts, collections, and achievements. Individual features won’t be separated out from that. The best that could be done in that situation is taking advantage of the separate alliance and horde houses, or making separate rooms/areas for each account. (At higher housing levels the amount of rooms and decor is staggering).
Your account violates tos then. Each account has to have a separate battle net account unless it is a parent sharing an account with their minor child. Everyone has to have their own battlenet account with a separate subscription. You’ve been lucky not to be already suspended.
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Fair enough. It sucks, but I figured that’s how it’s gonna be. We pay for 3 licenses, but we DO share everything. Thank you for having an actual answer.
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It does feel unfair. Each WoW account on a single BattleNet account pays $15 a month for a subscription. Each WoW account has to purchase the expansion. But you only get two houses across all of your WoW accounts on your BattleNet account.
In the important info section of the Expansion purchase page on the BattleNet shop it says, “Housing feature only available through purchase of, or entitlement to World of Warcraft®: Midnight”. It doesn’t say anything about only getting two houses across all your WoW accounts. The only mention of multiple WoW accounts says, “Purchasing the Epic Edition on multiple WoW® accounts in the same region under a single Battle.net® account will re-grant Housing Decor items”.
I think it’s reasonable that people would think they were getting a house (or two) for each Expansion purchase.
I gave you an answer as well and thats that your sharing a battlenet account with adult siblings violates TOS. One parent and one child under 16 sharing an account is the only way it’s ok. anyone over 18 has to have their own battlenet account.
They do it for the PvP honor share to get the high-end mounts farming on 5 accounts to 1 bnet, or to simplify billing for multiple accounts. One lady I know does it so she can see her child’s messages and have better control of those settings.
I believe it should be separated by account, not bnet. If each account is paying $15 for the same access, they should each get a house, else having multiple accounts for family/more characters should be at a discount if the access is restricted.
Tbh, I’d like to see them go further and have the houses separated by character.
But that’ll probably never happen given how the system is structured.
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No it doesn’t. Really? So if the bnet account has forced authenticator on?
That’s not how it works. Whether you have 10 accounts owned by others or 10 owned by people, the server doesn’t care. Botters are going to have separate bnet accounts anyway.
And even then, if I’m paying for 10 accounts, then it’s on blizzard to support everyone that logs in, no matter where they come from, just like they do for open world, BGs, raids, dungeons, etc.