Why do people use accounts that aren't theirs?

[Skyld]

Originally Posted by Draenin

The power of Christ compels them.

Ahahahaha.

<4 Draenin.

[Darlene159]

Originally Posted by HoudiniMan

It's bad that people have their passwords comprimised... but what drives people to actually log on to somebody else's account?

I know greed is a huge factor, but honestly, these people create support tickets asking to be unbanned.

How can you violate somebody else's account and not expect to get kicked off the game?

From my experiance, people do it because they can, and because a lot of staff ignore it.
I have seen many, many account sharers, and some of them have it even in their profile that they are sharing.
I have seen them openly discussing it in masses, and in game.
It is very easy for them to do it, and get by with it, even if it is just a long period of time, and not forever. Then, if they get caught, the owner can just request a password change, and all is good again.

[Rufus]

So what do you do when you know three people are sharing one account?

[Draenin]

Thor says it all.

[Rufus]

Originally Posted by Draenin

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Thor says it all.

..and who do you report it to?

[Darlene159]

Originally Posted by Rufus

..and who do you report it to?

I think Lyndsey is still the accounts manager

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[someonesomewhere]

A couple of my friends shared accounts, and they all got globally banned at one time or another... but, like it was said, one of them even had it in his profile, and it still took about half a year for him/them to get banned.

Again, greed is a large part of someone stealing a password and using the account. But buying a P2P isn't that hard, all you need to do is create a paypal account and then spend $19 at a minimum.

And then I suppose some people are just stupid. No other way to put it.

[HitmanJ2XX]

But what if greed isnt a problem?
Cor and I both know certain people ::cough: Snoro :cough:: Who just need RESET accts every year or so because they need challenge. I was (am) banned on Era because I was given an acct (2) that some guy didnt want. Banned. Working on it. But the thing is people use other's for many reasons. You never know unless u question their motive.

[CidNight1142]

Originally Posted by Draenin

Thor says it all.

Thor has great abs.

[Kixt_1234]

Guh, but the problem comes on people that is on a LAN and people get the same IP and ID, because of the router or server. Know what sucks then? IP BAN XD.

*One does something wrong, sharing account, ban, 13 people"* WTF WHY WAS I BANNED?!

Happened here once, 7 of my friends, on the LAN I am sitting on, one was IP banned, still no idea why, and the rest of us with him .

[KuJi]

Originally Posted by Chris

No clue why they do this. I do know it happens daily and some players are smart enough to get their hands on dozens on stolen accounts and use them as currency. Luckily they aren't smart enough to hide their IPs or computer IDs.

Uhm, I always hide my ip.. there wasn't computer id's back then but my friend found out that any of the below will make your pc id change
Installing over Windows
Installing Fresh Windows
Different Operating Systems
Windows Updating

Couple more I don't know, but I can easily just switch to linux, and use a virtual DVD distro and get a new id daily.

As for ips.. proxies.

[MisterMastermind]

On gold servers they do it to use things their friend has, like a high level or an event weapon. On other servers probably to have good statistics for bragging rights.