And you probably would not have had any contact with us now - unless rules were broken.
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the accounts all had a different authenticator before they moved to the cell phones. I’m talking the little button one you put on a key chain. if the rules haven’t changed then I have never broken them. if this is an issue of the accounts being bound then a simple request to unbind them was all it would have taken, not banning me outright accusing me of hacking or botting. no where in my account closure did it mention there was an issue of the accounts being bound.
Blizzard does not actively look for account sharing, nor would they be too interested for most reasons even when contacting them about an in-game issue.
But THIS is the reason why account sharing is not allowed. You say you didn’t do anything wrong, and taking that at face value, SOMEONE on the account did do something wrong. That’s why it is now an issue, and it’s why they have these rules in place.
Companies do not contact customers to request that they do things properly. You’re expected to know the rules, and follow them as you agreed to do with every expansion and patch over the last 20 years.
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You are conflating two different issues
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how so no rules were broken no one plays on this account but me. i have a different email different password. no one has botted no one has cheated, no one even knows my information. im not conflating anything, no rules were broken.
And now you are conflating licenses - with accounts.
The Battlenet is the account.
Individual WoW licenses within that account are typically sanctioned individually depending on the infraction.
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They do, but only for more egregious sorts of things like people at different locations paying for Mage tower pilots.
They don’t do this. The put the rules in black and white in the EULA, and Policies and expect us to follow them. A family sharing is not something they usually hunt down. It is a risk some families take - but do so knowing if anyone on it does something the account as a whole pays the penalty.
Many a couple, siblings, families have found out the hard way that if they break the sharing rules and something goes wrong, Blizzard will not help.
The most you MIGHT hope for here is a change to a long Suspension instead of a closure. But you would also have to stop account sharing.
That right there is a violation of the rules - and if they did something that caused it to get closed, Blizzard will not help. The account holder is responsible for ALL activity on their account. Including the side effects of account sharing.
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literally playing by your rules on an account that you guys bound together and I cant even get someone to unbind them because they said back in 2013 that it wasn’t possible to unbind the licenses
It was back then, but only with documentation showing that a parent is splitting off the account of their now adult child.
EDIT - it really does not matter. The person who has their name on the account is responsible for all activity on that account, and for reading and knowing the rules. Always has been the case, always will be.
If the ACCOUNT was closed for a valid cheating flag, it really does not matter if someone else played it - esp if you let them. The penalty will be upheld. “My little brother did it”, or “my child did it” defenses have never helped.
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blizzard did this and refused to separate them in the past. how all of a sudden now its an issue when both my father and brother barely play. i don’t take a fine tooth comb and re read the EULA everytime they change it. this is just outright wrong and anyone who cant see that if im banned for an honest mistake idk what to tell you. no rules were broken no one has been on my license but me, never once botted or cheated and the closure didnt say anything about account sharing so why are you reaching on that?
That’s because it wasn’t for sharing.
You’ve gone off on that tangent on your own. You have an authenticator, there are VERY different accesses on this Battlenet. I’m not even positive that plays into this, but it certainly could. While YOU may know what you have on your system - one can never ever know what may be on someone else’s - not even family.
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my acount wasnt banned just my personal license on the the account was which no one logs into but me. im not putting it off on anyone because no one was on there but me myself and I.
The ONLY way they would combine accounts in the past was if it was a parent moving a child under their account - or the accounts were both in the same name of the adult. PROOF was required to do that. Birth certificates, IDs, etc.
The only reason in 2013 they would not split an account is if the documentation does not match to split it - showing that the account is a child account being split off. Again, legal documentation was required.
The only person responsible for what happens on an account is the person who has their name on it.
You let someone else on your account, and they do something bad, that still means the account pays the penalty for whatever they did. Not knowing you can’t let your brother or father on your account as an adult does not change that. If the account is caught cheating, the account pays the penalty.
It can be a very harsh lesson.
Now, if this is a Compromise and can be proven via Blizzard’s logs. That is a totally different story. They do help with that - fixing the account and removing penalties the hacker did.
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wrong. no one was on this account but me. your attacks towards my word don’t matter to me but don’t spout out about things you have no idea on. NO ONE WAS ON THIS LICENCE BUT MYSELF EVER.
As Orlyia is saying, you are conflating two different things. The entire Battle.net account can have up to 8 WoW licenses. So when “your” license on the Battle.net account was banned, you need to refer to it that way, so we can be sure we’re talking about the same thing.
That may be true, but anyone with access to the Battle.net account could log in. Though they may not do it, they still have access to it, and that’s not allowed.
Your entire Battle.net account, for this very reason, is only allowed to be accessed by YOU. Actually, it’s only allowed to be accessed by the person whose name is on the account, and I’m assuming it is you. If it is your brother or your father, only THEY are allowed to access the ENTIRE BATTLE.NET ACCOUNT.
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No one has attacked you Tellimath.
You’ve had the rules explained. Just for the record WE didn’t ever move licenses without a request and back when unbound licenses were put into Battlenet accounts, that was also player directed.
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Ok, if you say that’s the way it is, that’s great.
But given this response above:
You may want to have some conversations with anyone else who has access to the ENTIRE Battle.net account.
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you’re talking about normal business I have done for years and only now its a problem which is news to me. This has never once been an issue in the past. i gain no advantage of having the licenses bound together which is something that has existed since bnet became a thing.
As said above, just because they’ve chosen to not actively police account sharing (except in certain circumstances, as Mirasol pointed out), does not mean it’s allowed.
It’s not just a problem now, and it shouldn’t be news at all. This isn’t a big secret. It’s right there in the terms you agreed to.
Yes, there is a general feeling amongst many players that this is ok, and Blizzard will never find out. Those feelings are 100% incorrect. You may get away with it for a long time…until you don’t.
This is not true at all. Being on the same Battle.net, you gain access to mounts/pet/collections that your brother or father may have earned on their account.
Existed for a very specific reason: that minor children cannot agree to a legal contract like the Terms of Use or End User License Agreement.
Now that you are no longer a minor and can legally agree to those, you need to do things differently.
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That they did not hunt you down for breaking the rules is a bonus, not an indication that sharing a Battlenet account was ok. Not getting caught is not them blessing your account’s activity.
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