Post by Morreion on Jun 24, 2014 15:57:33 GMT -5
The Daily Grind: Do you share MMO accounts with your friends? (Massively)
Account sharing. It's a bad idea. No, it's a terrible idea. It violates most MMO terms of service agreements, and it violates the most basic security principles: Never share your game account. Anything shared can easily be stolen or compromised by someone even less security-aware than you.
But if you've been playing MMOs long enough, you've probably shared your account, at least with your spouse or your kids or roommate. And then it spreads. Your guild really needs a main tank for a dungeon run, but you want to get some grub, so you let a guildie play you. You want to dual-box a friend's newbie to catch her up while she's at work. You need someone to log in your toon and refresh your house while you're on vacation. I'm not judging you here; I'm guilty myself. Heck, before I was allowed to join my first guild way back forever ago, I was required to hand over my account info to the recruiting officer to prove I wasn't a spy! And my husband and I pretty much share our characters completely, rules be damned.
Do you folks share your MMO accounts with friends, guildies, or relatives? Has it ever come back to haunt you?
I did this twice I think. Once was for a well-liked and popular player on the Nimue server on DAoC. He couldn't make a Master Level raid on a weekday night and really needed that ML. I was free and told him I'd play his character in the raid, though since I rarely had played a tank, I probably wouldn't do as great a job as he would. He thanked me. I told him to change his password so that I wouldn't know his real password- he could then change it back to his regular password the next day.
It worked out well, I announced to the whole raid it was me, Gack, not so-and-so, so they wouldn't think something weird was going on. I got his character through the ML and had a bit of fun at his expense. I asked 2 gals who I knew to send him tells the next night, acting as if he was some kind of Romeo and saying he was amazing last night *laughs* I had to tell him in the end that it was a prank, and all was well that ended well!
Account sharing. It's a bad idea. No, it's a terrible idea. It violates most MMO terms of service agreements, and it violates the most basic security principles: Never share your game account. Anything shared can easily be stolen or compromised by someone even less security-aware than you.
But if you've been playing MMOs long enough, you've probably shared your account, at least with your spouse or your kids or roommate. And then it spreads. Your guild really needs a main tank for a dungeon run, but you want to get some grub, so you let a guildie play you. You want to dual-box a friend's newbie to catch her up while she's at work. You need someone to log in your toon and refresh your house while you're on vacation. I'm not judging you here; I'm guilty myself. Heck, before I was allowed to join my first guild way back forever ago, I was required to hand over my account info to the recruiting officer to prove I wasn't a spy! And my husband and I pretty much share our characters completely, rules be damned.
Do you folks share your MMO accounts with friends, guildies, or relatives? Has it ever come back to haunt you?
I did this twice I think. Once was for a well-liked and popular player on the Nimue server on DAoC. He couldn't make a Master Level raid on a weekday night and really needed that ML. I was free and told him I'd play his character in the raid, though since I rarely had played a tank, I probably wouldn't do as great a job as he would. He thanked me. I told him to change his password so that I wouldn't know his real password- he could then change it back to his regular password the next day.
It worked out well, I announced to the whole raid it was me, Gack, not so-and-so, so they wouldn't think something weird was going on. I got his character through the ML and had a bit of fun at his expense. I asked 2 gals who I knew to send him tells the next night, acting as if he was some kind of Romeo and saying he was amazing last night *laughs* I had to tell him in the end that it was a prank, and all was well that ended well!
