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Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
What is account sharing?
FrankenHammer
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So if I get a tablet and log into MY account on it then MY account is linked to 2 devices. From what I've read account sharing is having someone else log into your account. How can you prove it's you logging into YOUR account and not someone else? This seems like a sticky situation and quite frankly inconvenient for people getting new phones or tablets to play on. I may be wrong so someone please help set me straight. I'm scared to get a tablet now.
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Likely there are other factors taken into consideration too.
So if wanna play on the go keep it on the phone and if I wanna play at home that's when the tablet comes in handy.
The short answer is that there's no way to prove account sharing, because you could have an identical twin, you could have gained the power of teleportation, a superhacker could be trying to frame you by altering server logs, this could all be a dream and you missed the kick to exit you out of it.
But it isn't about proving you didn't account share. They will only ban you if they can prove you did account share. And that generally means that on top of sharing accounts, you did something that signals you account shared. You shared it with someone that lives on the opposite side of the Earth and you keep logging in at the same time they do. You're sharing it with someone that is fifty times a better player than you and plays like a mercenary. They themselves use mods or other tools on their devices.
If you aren't account sharing with someone else, then they obviously can't detect you account sharing. But if you do account share and any little red flag shows up that links you to account sharing, or you share with someone that breaks any TOS rule, you are ultimately accountable for that and your account can be permanently banned.
Lots of players have multiple devices. Lots of players have multiple accounts. Lots of players play multiple accounts on multiple devices. Parents have children in the same household they made accounts for. People buy new devices. People switch operating systems from Android to iOS or vice versa. They play using VPNs. They travel to other countries. If their TOS violation systems flagged any of these situations as violations of account sharing, they would be banning thousands of players that did nothing wrong, and there's no evidence that is taking place.
If you aren't doing anything wrong, stop worrying.
I recently bought wifi on a United flight from Hawaii to Chicago, played MCOC on my phone until the battery ran low then switched to my iPad, then roamed onto O'Hare's wifi when the flight landed. I'm not worried about getting flagged.
Yes they can. Your Account has an I.P. attached to it, with a location. When an Account already registered to that I.P. logs on to another Account, that's an indication. If couples, friends, or family share devices, that's not usually a problem. When someone logs on in one area of the world and another an hour later, that's a red flag. These are my own conjectures, and I'm sure they have other ways of distinguishing, but the bottom line is they can tell. Account Sharing is against TOS. Whether you use a Mod for End-Game Content or not, it's still cheating. The answer is simple. Don't give your Account Info to anyone, and don't use anyone else's.
Ok that makes sense. I'm just worried if I log in on my phone at work, and then on my tablet at home I may get flagged. But I'll never use cheats or 3rd party anything. I've tried on previous games and all I got was a headache. All the damn surveys you gotta do to get the results you're looking for just arent even worth it.
This is not true. People have been banned for sharing.
Now, if you have multiple devices and all those devices show that they've only been playing on 1 account, then they can also ascertain that you're not cheating from their log data. Moreover, if you have 2 accounts and they all show that they've been logged in the same device(s) and same general locations, then they can also determine that it's 1 person with multiple accounts.. What's harder or nearly impossible for them to determine, is if 2 people from the same family share accounts... especially if the game is played a lot from the home.
That just answered every question I had in my head thank you so much!
Not a concern. Multiple devices are allowed.
That makes me think this was more about hacks and pay services than it was about networks and IP addresses.
Someone asked the same question, and the Mod responded that as long as it's not a program that can modify the game, it's not a concern.
Good to know that the flight wifi allows you to play MCOC... I have always held off buying data because I thought they wouldn't allow you to play games, or the connection would be too slow!
I wouldn't bet on that, they already said that that have ways of keeping track of that stuff and that it's exactly what they are looking for.
They know roughly where you are, when you are playing and when you do things like rank up champions ( they have it timestamped trust me on that) it's all being collected by them and if you're one place acessesing and someone else is accessing it far away they will eventually go it and ban people for account sharing.