Quote Originally Posted by Octaviane View Post
Considering I was told to do this by a Customer Service Rep at the beginning of the year when I couldn't progress through a Windurst Mission CS and seeing that other players have reported doing the same in these Forums, I think as long as you trust the person guesting, you should be fine.

I also did everything else the rep advised me to do, file checks, re-install, porting all to no avail before he arrived at the solution of guesting.
That does seem peculiar indeed.

I find it hard to believe a Customer Support member would ever suggest that. If I had to quess, I'd say they meant indeed using another machine and not to actually share your account credentials to someone else to do it. I was not there, obviously, so I can't know for sure. ^^

Either way, whatever they told you, it does not change the fact that it is indeed a violation of the PlayOnline Member Agreement.

Quote Originally Posted by Article 4: Ownership, Rights, and Restrictions
4.2 Restrictions.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, you may not:
(a) modify, reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Software;
(b) rent,lease, loan, sell, sublicense, distribute, transmit or otherwise transfer the Software, your User or other account-related information (including, but not limited to, your User ID or password information) to any third party;
(c) make any copy of or otherwise reproduce the Software; or,
(d) use the Software or your PlayOnline user account to provide service bureau or time-sharing services, or for any other commercial purpose. The PlayOnline Service and the ability to access PlayOnline are for the personal use of Users only and may not be copied, resold, leased, transferred, exchanged or bartered. "PLAYONLINE(r)" is a trademark used by SEL under licnse and may not be reproduced, altered or used in any way without the prior written consent of SEL.
And yes, generally players think there is nothing wrong in account-sharing, giving their un-used account to a friend, and the likes and I guess SqEX does not have a problem with it either from the looks of it, but I would always suggest against inciting to rule-violation. I basically registered to this forum just to say this because no one else does and I was worried about people getting punished for something they clearly thought was OK. >.>;


But that is that and this is this, let us not take it more off-topic shall we? Time for a cup of coffee or tea (or both) with the sun rising here.
These are just my thoughts anyways~