Just got word my ISP is shutting down email service which means the 4 ISP emails I have for 4 Bnet accounts will need to be changed. m I haven’t had good experience with making multiple gmail accounts, it gets shut down quickly for some reason, maybe Google thought I was going to use it for spam or scam? So anyway, I do have one gmail account but my concern is 4 Bnet accounts, would there be an issue combining them all to one email address? One of them, the original account that I still play, I created it with fake names almost 20 years ago as I didn’t think I’d keep playing. So no, trying to combine 4 Bnet accounts into one will work unless someone at Blizzard can overlook the fact my old account has fake names.
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Each Battle Net account will require its own unique email address.
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For gmail, you can do a +(alias) and use the same email.
So you can do nerrus+account1@gmail, etc
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That works? I’ll have to check it.
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Battlenets do need unique emails, Nerrus. That’s the identifier of the account.
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You can change the user account information via the Account settings page here on the website. You are required to use your legal name.
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Just checked, it won’t let me change the fake name. I can change other details but the names I created the account with can’t be changed.
Then you will need to submit a ticket to have Blizzard do it manually. You will need to be ready to provide corroborating paperwork.
ticket link: https://us.support.blizzard.com/en/help/contact/612/ticket
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I’d get the fake name changed right away. The EULA requires you to use your legal name and valid information on all accounts because it’s a legal binding contract.
One reason is because if your account is ever compromised, it would be extremely difficult to recover. The main reason is that we’ve seen a lot of people come here to the forum lately asking why Blizzard closed their accounts and it turns out that is was because they used fake information. Seems like Blizzard is cracking down.
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I was able to change it. Turns out 2 places for names, one in full address field can’t be changed but main account name can be changed. Then I had to go back to the address field which now showed 2 different addresses, one with fake name and one with real name. Deleted the old one.
Used to be much harder to change names back when you could still merge accounts. Now you can’t merge Bnet account or move characters between 2 different Bnet account.
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Gmail likes to do this for some reason (probably spam as you suggested). The email they send should say something about verifying/claiming the account. Just go through those steps. In a day or two they’ll release the account(s).
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