Basically title, I recently bought a steamdeck and would use it to play WoW during downtimes at work. My only concern is that I travel locally for work so ~100 miles of where I live, so I would be on a hotspot at different locations (obviously not at the same time.) Would this flag me as account sharing?
I would assume, so long as you have an authenticator, you’d be okay.
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No, you can play from practically anywhere you want. You may be challenged by security settings while switching locations. So if you have an Authenticator you may need to enter the code, or the account may be temporarily locked and you have to enter a code sent to you.
Account sharing is more, you were playing from a location in Los Angeles at 2 pm PST and then suddenly logged into the game from Australia at 4 pm PST. So assuming you aren’t crossing the space-time continuum, you should be fine.
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Unless something has changed, this is very much a “use at your own risk” sort of thing? There is a thread that seems to rear it’s head every now and again where folks are debating that remote playing veers close to cloud computing and a whole twisted mess of things.
If there have been changes to allow for such things, Vrak or anyone please correct me. But here are some threads you may want to peek at.
And a comment from Vrak previously about the topic (mind you, it’s a quote from 2020, but still):
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Yeah I dont plan on “remote playing” from my steam deck as in like streaming my home computer through my steam deck so I’m not too worried about that. It was more of the just showing me playing in different locations since my job requires me to pretty much go to a different spot every day. Vrak cleared it up for me though. Thanks for the help 
Also make sure to never use public wifi. Many of those will steal you info and passwords
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Much less of a concern now that basically everything uses HTTPS or some other form of encryption.
Maybe so but would still stay away from them
I believe as long as you don’t use a VPN or Proxy server you can connect from anywhere.
The only thing that would cause problems is if it looks like you connect from one coast then a few minutes later from the other coast, which is what a VPN or Proxy can do, so don’t use them.
Yes a VPN or a proxy server can do that. If you do use these should always use the same VPN and only use paid VPN services and never free ones. If used when you have a authenticator and you always use the same one with the same ip you should be good.
But yes you do not want to appear to be jumping across the country in a matter of minutes.
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