Question About Sharing a Character

[Paladinleeds]

From the context of his post I was assuming he wanted his exp removed, because he played with a "cheater".

If that is indeed the case then fair enough, but I can see why others would see it as wanting the "cheater's" XP removed. That was how I originally perceived it. But to answer the question if that is what he meant, no you can't do anything about it.

[KaivaC]

From the context of his post I was assuming he wanted his exp removed, because he played with a "cheater".

If that's the case, then sorry, but that's just stupid.

[DevonEllwood]

So my cat isn't allowed to play? I haven't shared my account information with him, but I thought it would be fine if he just goofed around in the open world.

[Fayt1203]

Omg omg that means that i'm in serious trouble. i have been sharing my controller when i'm playing with friends on my ps4 account what to do. i also been sharing food from my fridge, i'm probably going to share jail time for this

[Niwashi]

No one is “punishing” the OP though

And neither did the OP punish the guy who had his girlfriend take over his character for a while. Reporting someone isn't a punishment. It's just letting SE know about it so that they can be the ones to decide whether it's an issue or not.

This was technically account sharing, but probably not the type that SE was talking about when they put it in the ToS. But it's their rule, so they're the best people to decide whether it still counts as an infraction or not. There's nothing wrong with reporting it to them so that they can do so. If they don't think it warrants any action, then there won't be any action taken.

[SannaR]

And neither did the OP punish the guy who had his girlfriend take over his character for a while. Reporting someone isn't a punishment. It's just letting SE know about it so that they can be the ones to decide whether it's an issue or not.

This was technically account sharing, but probably not the type that SE was talking about when they put it in the ToS. But it's their rule, so they're the best people to decide whether it still counts as an infraction or not. There's nothing wrong with reporting it to them so that they can do so. If they don't think it warrants any action, then there won't be any action taken.

That's not what Hyo meant by punishing the op as someone else said anyone who thought the op's actions and asking for xp to be taken away was a bit too far regardless if what that other player did was or wasn't against the ToS as punishing the OP.

[Caitlinzulu]

You new to the forums? Attack people for points. One reason why the forums are a cesspit.


There is no such thing as wasting a GM's time when it is literally their job to address player queries, GMs don't deal with bots, you can't get in trouble off reports alone and if something isn't against the ToS, the GMs would clarify.

Yes you can get into trouble from reports alone. If you keep making one false report after another in the end they will take action against you. Seen it happen though it was around 2 years ago. so who knows what their stance is now.

[Niwashi]

Partly it covers them from demands for compensation if someone uses another player's shared information to steal or sabotage their account - as covered in the extended quote of section 3.1 that Valkyrie posted.

But it's also going to allow for a "Catch-22" ban if someone does something ban-worthy, then tries to say it wasn't them, it was their friend who used their account. Instead of having to judge the truth - potentially about something serious - SE can now say "well maybe you didn't do X, but you've admitted to sharing your account so we're banning you for that instead".

There's a third reason for it as well. If multiple people are playing the game, SE wants to be paid for each of them. You can't get one account for the whole family, have everyone make a character and take turns playing the game while only paying for one subscription. That's the least likely of the three problems to come to SE's attention so they can stop it, but they'd want to stop it when they can. If multiple people in the family play the game, you're supposed to purchase the game and pay a sub for each of them.

(It would still be a bit of stretch to think that applies to this case. I just thought if people are discussing the reason for the "no account sharing" rule, we should bring up all the reasons for it.)

[HyoMinPark]

And neither did the OP punish the guy who had his girlfriend take over his character for a while. Reporting someone isn't a punishment. It's just letting SE know about it so that they can be the ones to decide whether it's an issue or not.

This was technically account sharing, but probably not the type that SE was talking about when they put it in the ToS. But it's their rule, so they're the best people to decide whether it still counts as an infraction or not. There's nothing wrong with reporting it to them so that they can do so. If they don't think it warrants any action, then there won't be any action taken.

Uh, I never said anything about OP "punishing" anyone else either. But I did say that they completely overreacted, and made a mountain out of a molehill. Go back and reread my post.

[Geigerette]

I had my brother take over healing on my character in wow one time while doing a DS LFR raid because I had to go to the bathroom REALLY bad and didn't want to AFK. I don't really think that is even worth reporting, and seems somewhat petty?