Timeline for Why is account sharing so bad?
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| Sep 17, 2017 at 10:31 | comment | added | Aaa | Josh and Jörg hit the nail on the head. As a system administrator (outside of game development), I don't want people to share accounts, because I want to know who did what when pushes comes to shove (and the higher ups will ask me that, when for example, HR deducted the wrong amount of vacation from another employee). Likewise, I do not want to know anyone else's password, because if I don't know it, I can't be blamed for something that happens under their account. If needed, I could reset it anyway, but that creates a proper audit trail and doesn't stay unnoticed. | |
| Sep 17, 2017 at 8:18 | vote | accept | Charanor | ||
| Sep 16, 2017 at 9:36 | comment | added | user541686 | They could just say that you're responsible for whatever happens on your account without disallowing sharing though? I suspect the main issue is the $$$ issue, not the responsibility issue... | |
| Sep 15, 2017 at 15:23 | comment | added | Doktor J | @Joshua Blizzard has no practical/easy way to determine whether your account was stolen, or you just sold it to someone for $500 on eBay. That said, a friend of mine had his WoW account stolen many years ago, and after jumping through hoops (faxing ID cards, etc), he did manage to get them to restore his account to a specific point. He still lost a lot of stuff because they rolled back to a point they were "certain" was still only him (erasing some of his legit late-game progress)... but it was better than forever losing the account. | |
| S Sep 15, 2017 at 8:49 | history | suggested | Pierre Arlaud | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 14, 2017 at 0:35 | comment | added | Joshua | On the other hand there are videos on youtube showing abusing obviously stolen accounts. Blizzard still punishes the legit user. | |
| Sep 13, 2017 at 21:30 | comment | added | Jörg W Mittag |
It also works the other way around: if you share your account, and your account is used to, for example, commit a crime, then you can't prove that it wasn't you. Whereas, if a system administrator were to impersonate you, this would usually only be possible via a specialized tool that leaves an audit trail (think sudo for Unix user accounts, which also logs every command and who was the actual user who issued it).
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| Sep 13, 2017 at 16:58 | comment | added | Anoplexian | Note: The "ban" part also applies to black market account buying and selling. | |
| Sep 13, 2017 at 16:11 | history | answered | user1430 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |