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Same IP, ban?
Raikis
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Hello. My flatmate wants to join mcoc, but won’t it get us banned as we are using same wifi IP?
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Besides, it is allowed to have multiplie account's.
LMAO.
But if you hand you device to your room mate and he gives you his, then you're in big trouble.
We're talking about the rules of it. I'm just stating what is allowed and what is not. If we wanted to get technical, it's Rated Teen, but many kids play anyway. If your child has no Email and you make an Account for them, that would be their Account, but you would assume responsibility because you're the parent. It's not exception cases we're talking about. I'm sure we're all aware of what Account Sharing is by now. Lol.
based off that logic, id be breaking the tos by allowing someone (who i'm trying to get interested in the game) to take a fight. thats ridiculous, as not many people are willing to commit to something w/o trying it first. now if you're referring to players that have been involved in the game for a long while (2 yrs for me), i understand exactly what you're saying and i may agree with you.
This is a common misconception. It is based on a technical fallacy. Kabam doesn't use IP address to check for account sharing, not in the way that people think they do. Two different accounts logging in from the same source IP means exactly nothing to Kabam. That's not how account sharing is determined.
Let me put it this way. Suppose a hundred people were all playing from the same location on the same Wifi network and their connections were coming from the same internet IP address. And suppose out of all of those people, two of them were sharing the same phone. It would take five seconds to figure out which two accounts that was.
Sharing IP addresses means diddly squat. The people who think it matters don't know anything about how this works.
I was speaking purely technically. Technically, we're not allowed to share our Account. Now, two people in the same room taking turns on a device isn't exactly the kind of thing that would lead to a ban. I remember a comment made by Moderation on the old Forum that specified that's not what they are looking for.
However, if there were complications such as accidental use of Resources, I suspect you would inevitably assume responsibility because you're responsible for your own Account. All I was saying was from a technical standpoint, sharing your Account with anyone is against TOS.
That is technically a violation of the TOS, but it is not a violation the company would ordinarily act upon. The company, like all companies, is allowed to make rules and use judgment when enforcing them. If they tried to spell out exactly precisely what the thresholds were for "real" violations people would just attempt to rules-lawyer their way into exploiting weaknesses in the language. Instead, they simple state that this is not authorized, which then allows them to ban anyone they suspect of doing it a lot, while they only need to prove it happened once.
Also, in practice what you're describing is something they can't detect. So they don't worry about incidental sharing like that, because it is impossible for them to catch anyone doing that in their monitoring nets.
I could be playing with different fingers, or possibly my feet.