Question About Sharing a Character

[worldofneil]

It says account and login information, not that they cannot play on your account.

What....? It says exactly that.... You literally quoted it...

You may not share your account

I don't know how you can read that any other way. How is someone playing on your account anything other than sharing an account?

Account and login information are two completely different things, hence they list both. Account being your characters etc, login information being the method of accessing those characters.

And it's not just to cover you from 3rd party attacks, you're ignoring the part where SE says they might remove access to your account too:

In addition, Square Enix shall be entitled to terminate any FFXIV Service Account (immediately and without notice) of any User who (1) was previously suspended or terminated by Square Enix and who Square Enix believes (in its sole discretion) re-registered using different registration information in order to circumvent or bypass such suspension or termination, or (2) Square Enix believes (in its sole discretion, based upon any information available, including registration and account information) that such User is enabling or assisting another User to conduct any Prohibited Activities of any kind.

Square Enix may update the list of Prohibited Activities at http://sqex.to/ffxiv.na.support at any time. The current Prohibited Activities are as follows:

3.1 Sharing Account Information. You may not share your account or login information (such as your Square Enix ID and password) with anyone except your legal guardian, your minor child, or Square Enix.

But again, it's nothing to do with whether *we* think it's a problem or not. OP saw some someone breaking the ToS, they reported them. It's up to SE to look into it and take whatever action they deem necessary. Our opinions are completely irrelevant.