This is my second WoW account, I came back to the game for TWW and I have no memory of what my info was before considering the last time I regularly played wow was back during Cata.
Would be nice to have my achievements on this account from my previous one but other than that I wasn’t all too sentimental over having to start over.
HBU GD?
I played on my Europe account for a decade, but moved from England to Texas in 2021.
Due to the lag being too high I made the region switch to NA. Lost everything, I don’t understand why mounts can’t be shared-progression. I had virtually every rare mount I wanted on my EU account.
I don’t even think I’ve ran ICC, Onyxias Lair or Tempest a single time on my NA account lol I’m just not doing it over.
This is my one-and-only account. It’s as old as the game itself.
It actually belonged to my older brother’s friend’s wife lol, as I was too young to have an account of my own when WoW was new- I was 9-10 years old.
This was back when WoW was making the rounds, everyone and their dog played it back in the early 2000’s.
Of course she didn’t stick with the game, and the account ended up becoming mine. Her old characters were either deleted or transferred off, before it was handed to me.
It still has her name on it, to this very day lol.
Anyways, I’m 30 and my account is 20 years old, so yeah.
Heads up - Blizzard does not allow accounts to be transferred like that. That is her account and you should technically not be on it.
If you ever have any issues that require you to prove you are the account holder, you are going to lose access to the account, because it is not yours.
Only you are allowed to access an account registered in your name. We don’t recognize the transfer of accounts between individuals. Activities performed on your account are your liability.
You may not share your account or password with anyone, except if you are a parent or guardian, in which case you may permit one minor child to use your account. You may not use your account at the same time, and you are liable for activities conducted by the minor child.
You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality and the use of your user name and password. You are responsible for all uses of your information, even if you don’t authorize them. Security of your account is your responsibility.
As long as the account is in your real name Blizzard can help you regain access. You just needed to put in a ticket for it. They usually send an email with a list of questions to try to answer verifying that you are the account holder. To answer that - do not reply to the email! Open a new ticket, reference the 1st ticket number, and try to answer the questions.
As for me, I have one Battlenet account and one WoW license. I have since 2004.
Always laughed because it technically isn’t allowed, but I’ve owned the account longer than the original owner ever did, and I was too young to pay for my own sub fees.
Originally the account was shared, and I was ‘the child’ who it was shared with, but the original owner since stopped playing entirely.
All of the info is my own now, has been changed yeeeaaars ago, but the account name, I don’t think I can change it.
Ah, it’s been so long and I’ve made peace with leaving it behind I think I’ll be okay going forwards. Thank you very much for the info though I wasn’t aware that was possible!
No, you can’t change that without submitting legal name change documentation - it is not your account. The person who has their name on the account can submit a ticket and request access to it again, or Blizzard could close it permanent for violating the rules.
I am afraid that if anything ever happens, like an account compromise, you won’t get access to that account again. You can’t prove you are the registered account holder - because you are not
This is my third. I have never cared too much at all about the account itself I just like playing the game. They all have some cool achievements and stuff. This one has next to nothing of note on it…when I’m pressing my buttons I don’t see anything I’ve collected nor do I care about stuff I haven’t. At the end of the day it’s a videogame and someday it’s gonna go away forever. Why would you actually care? It’s like starting a collection of bottle caps and you know someday someone is just gonna take it away from you and there’s nothing you can do about it. There isn’t any point in caring about them
This is technically my second account the first one was made with an email I’ve long since forgotten and I didn’t care enough to bother going through the recovery process. I never really cared about collecting stuff so restarting was just easier.
I have this account, it’s my first account. I think. I might have created a trial account umpteen years ago around the beginning of WoW, but I would have only played it for probably an hour. I have no real memory of it nor what I would have put down for info. lol
I created a second account totally separate from this one for my mentally challenged cousin who said she wanted to play, but then changed her mind and never logged on or accessed it at all, since she never accessed it in any way and never had access to it (she would not have remembered how, it was created so she could just goof around. ) I kept the account. I play it on occasionally. No other person has ever played on it or accessed it. It is subscribed, I haven’t canceled that.
I didn’t purchase TWW on it so right now I’m not doing much with it.
Tldr = had 5 Vanilla accounts.
My brother talked me into switching to Wow from another game we played.
He was a left coaster, and games were how we spent time together.
I made and paid for 2 accounts each.
We spent a lot of time in game and did everything, Raid/PvP.
Then my wife at time wanted to play, so I made another account.
Wife became an ex, and stopped playing.
Brother died during Panda.
Wod - I gave away his 2 accounts and 1 of mine, and quit Wow.
Legion - a former guild asked me to return and tank again. I decided to and reopened the remaining accounts. I stayed until BFA but it wasn’t the same without Bro, and I found BFA main story arc truly distasteful, eventually quitting again.
Came back during DF for a bit → new flying.
Might stay for a bit. Might not.
A bud’s kid likes my raider tank, will probably give him that account for his birthday.
(And yes I know rules, rules. If they don’t want my money that’s fine too.)
Probably the farmer in me talking, sometimes I need to downgrade my level without a second person around. You can keep alts on your second account down at tiers like 30, 40, 50. Then have them invite your lvl 80 to their party then you can level down to make certain content not one-shot everything especially if you need to keep something alive for achievements or collection.
If you make enough gold to keep your subscription going through Gold Tokens, its not another $15 a month for a second account, its just splitting your gold. If you get enough alts on your second account going, there are somewhat passive gold income sources too where it can provide for itself. If you know how, I won’t say.