Curse

Fril Estelin · Jul 04, 2008, 09:00 AM // 09:00

I wish I could create a poll for that:

The title says it all, did you ever give access to your account to anyone?

If so, to whom and why? Did you then change your password after they used your account?

I'll start by saying that I did, but my wife and myself were using the same account since she was a very casual player. And I know she has safe security practices since she's interacting only with very few people in-game, so no risk of information leak. And I set up her comp so that the shortcut uses the "-pwd" option so she never really knew the password (and her comp is fully protected).

EDIT: another question you may want to answer is: did you ever give access to someone so that they can power-level your characters? (i.e., play the game for you so that you don't have to do what you consider boring stuff, for example get to level 20 with all your heroes at level 20, or achieve 1 million+ gold)

EDIT: if you can create a poll for me on GWG and it's not against GWG rules, please contact me.

EDIT: updated information from 97 answers so far (up to message #114). Note that numbers are rough estimates, because it's hard to guess the information from natural language descriptions

. The average number and motivations are not very accurate due to lack of information. The situation of multiple accounts is not represented correctly here (and I've put girl/boyfriends in family ;P). Take these numbers with at least two teaspoons of salt!

The who?
1) Absolutely not: 36 (37.1%)
2) No but I considered it: 7 (7.2%)
3) I refused access given by to others to their account: 2 (2%)
4) To close friends that I trust: 34 (35%)
5) To people I know in person: 12 (12.3%)
6) To family members: 23 (23.7%)
7) To someone I met in game: 4 (4.1%)
8) I also have access to other people's account: 18 (18.5%)

Average number of other people that can access acount:
107/97 = 1.1

Motivations (the why?):
1) To check something for me: 2 (2%)
2) Shared account: 2 (2%)
3) To increase one of my title or play the game for me: 9 (9.3%)
4) For special events (e.g. festivals): 7 (7.2%)
5) To try the game in order to decide if I should buy it: 6 (6.2%)
6) For storage: 2 (2%)
7) Just because I trust them (or they trust me): 14 (14.4%)
8) Someone gave me their account: 1 (1%)
9) Only for a particular event or situation: 13 (13.4%)
10) For playing the game with different maxed characters: 1 (1%)
11) In order to be able to play while I was banned[I]: 1(1%)[/U]

luminoire · Jul 04, 2008, 09:05 AM // 09:05

yep, to my friend when i was on vacation to check something for me, and on occasions to buy/sell for me.

he still has my account pass, and still use it only when i tell him to.
i've known him for 13 years so he's pretty safe :P...and he doesn't do anything i don't tell him to do so there's no security problem...since he's usually more careful than i am at trades.

Icy The Mage · Jul 04, 2008, 09:05 AM // 09:05

I've never given out my pass, or even the email I use for my account.

One thing though, I invited a few friends over at my house last weekend (had a sleepover ;P) and me, being the extreme lazy ass I am, slept in until 2... my friend woke up around noon, and all I can say... I left my char online (/age farming is really leet) and he had fun trading himself 10 ectos and 40k lmao xD

zwei2stein · Jul 04, 2008, 09:05 AM // 09:05

Never, but i was was seriously considerating it (i.e events I could not participate in because i was going to be offline.; giving guild officers access to my mule account so that anyone can grab goodies ...)

On the other hand, people offered me access to their accounts few times, which politely refused (with little lecture).

Gift3d · Jul 04, 2008, 09:06 AM // 09:06

2 people who i trust with my life know my account and password. They never log into it unless checking with me first, and these people have known my account/passwords for years and i've never had a problem with it.

edit: Might as well mention that i know these two people personally. I'd never trust anyone online with my account information.

RedStar · Jul 04, 2008, 09:11 AM // 09:11

Yes.... And since I know them personally I don't care.

distilledwill · Jul 04, 2008, 09:22 AM // 09:22

My brother, we used to share the account. So he had 4 characters and I had 4. Since then I've got a new password and he's got his own account. I'd trust him with my account anytime as I'm the older/bigger brother and would cause pain if he abused the right.

Silent Hunter Xx · Jul 04, 2008, 09:25 AM // 09:25

Aye 4 people, know 3 of em personally and id trust em with anything, we all know each others, its an open relationship between us, lol

Abedeus · Jul 04, 2008, 09:26 AM // 09:26

Once, in Diablo 2. I gave to a dude, he gave me his. I didn't steal from him, but after holidays I checked my account... Naked characters.

Guess what happened? After 2-3 hours he PMed me and asked where am I, so he can give back his stuff. Turned out he took those items because I wasn't on for a long time, so if my characters expired, I wouldn't loose them... I got every item I had and an apology for not warning me beforehand about that plan.

But such person is born every 100 years.

Productivity · Jul 04, 2008, 09:29 AM // 09:29

Yes, maybe 10 people all up. I've met them all and if they're going to throw away a long friendship to screw around with my account, I don't want them as a friend.

miskav · Jul 04, 2008, 09:40 AM // 09:40

2 People know my account details, and they've both been my friends for years.

If they'll abuse the friendship over a game, then it's their loss.

[Morkai] · Jul 04, 2008, 09:43 AM // 09:43

My best friend in game, also my ex-officer. Haven't met up with him yet in RL.

I changed password first time round, but i gave him my new one anyway. I actually encourage him to go on my account if he needs anything.

upier · Jul 04, 2008, 09:52 AM // 09:52

Yes.
Reasons:
1. Lucky is account wide.
2. If I were to get banned (because of some moronic action that the person that knows my pass did) - I'd stop playing GW anyway.
At the end of the day - it's just a game.

Now excuse me while I go bitch about everything in it ...

Kusandaa · Jul 04, 2008, 10:06 AM // 10:06

Two guys have my account info; my husband and one of my great friends on GW. In all honesty I trust both with it so it doesn't bother me. Husband had it since the beginning (not that he uses it, but it can come handy) and the second has had it for a while now... I changed my password once.

I know the account info of a couple people (couple great friends', husband's, guild leader's) but I can honestly say I only used one of those a lot and I had the full permission to - mule account since he didn't play anymore. As for my guild leader's... it's mostly in case if there's a problem that officers can't fix, if I wanna change the cape (I'm gonna put something horrible before he comes back

) and use the dye bank.

Never got hacked, never woke up and found my whole account had been deleted by my husband or by my friends, never missed anything... I'm not even sure if my good buddy even remembers the info x].

Breakfast Mc Rit · Jul 04, 2008, 10:14 AM // 10:14

I almost said no, because I really don't trust anyone, but I let my younger brother on in hopes that he would get into the game. He played a few times and quit.

quickmonty · Jul 04, 2008, 10:24 AM // 10:24

No.

There are several people that I would trust, but there has never been a reason to give anyone else access to my account.

Odinius · Jul 04, 2008, 10:27 AM // 10:27

Yes, to my Guild Leader, although we never met, we know eachother since day one of GW and consider us good friends.
He works a lot so I log into his account to attend festivals and gets his partyhats or manage his Zaishen Keys so he doesn't miss his points.
In turn he has all my login codes, he bought me two extra slots and EotN.

FrAnt1c² · Jul 04, 2008, 10:54 AM // 10:54

I know my brothers account info, he knows mine, besides that I would only give that info to people I know in real life, so I can burn down their house if they mess with my account...

Turbobusa · Jul 04, 2008, 11:30 AM // 11:30

Why would I?

AscalonWarrior · Jul 04, 2008, 11:46 AM // 11:46

Yeah, real life friend and my brother knows the password. But since my brother doesn't play GW and my friend has his own account it doesn't really matter.