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"Well, personally I had never been enticed to trade accounts. I love my toons and I love the satisfaction of knowing that every single thing achieved on them is my own. That and it is against the agreements you agree to when you install the game and most importantly it compromises the account's security. This final reason is exactly why a Guildie lost his account yesterday. Long story short. Guildie A traded his warrior for a rogue. After a while he then decided to trade that rogue for a warlock. After a little while longer he decided to trade that warlock to Guildie B for Guildie B's Pally. Guildie A and B are both great people to play with and both know their classes really well despite not having played the toons all the way from 1-70. Anyway yesterday, the Lock account, which now belongs to Guildie B, was hacked by the person who originally traded the Lock for the Rogue from Guildie A. We assume the hacker retrieved the password by using the secret question which apparently can't be changed. Anyway when the hacker came online with the lock, he was vigorously questioned by the guild and it turns out that he hacked the lock because someone hacked his rogue and he assumes that it was the person he originally traded the lock to which I am pretty certain it isn't. Anyway, it is a fine mess, which I am guessing will end up with the lock account being cancelled by Blizzard. This simply makes it perfectly clear why this practice isn't allowed by Blizzard. wow lvl Personally, I hope for Guildie B that he gets his account back and I hope they all learn from this. Rusttle, no clue why you were rated down, but I rated you back up as what you said was absoloutley true. There is no way to secure a foregn account. level wow There is no way for you to retrieve it if the original owner decides they want it back. So what, right. You could just log back into your own, right. cheap world of warcraft gold Well, what if they sold/DEd all of your equipment and then deleted the account. You may get the char back, but Blizz rarely refunds stuff you didn't actually have at the time of deletion. Or worse, they could have been banned and took their own account back because of that. wow gold So, in conclusion, take the short time it takes an experienced player to hit 70. It is satisfying, honest and safe. It's a crazy and unfortunate situation but before I go all empathetic, I'm going to call you on a minor oversight that for whatever reason is a harsh pet peeve of mine. The pally turned warlock did not get hacked. wow gold Hacking implies a level of innocence on the part of the victim...like they did everything right and someone with a significant amount of technical expertise screwed them over. As you've acknowledged, your friends got stupid with account security and sadly, at least one of them has paid the price. Call me old-school, but labeling it a ""hack"" any time someone uses a front-end feature to do something sneaky with an account is passe and takes attention away from the solution. Your friends handed over the keys to Troy and were subsequently ass-raped without a Trojan. There are always going to be people naive enough to think that the security warnings are meant for everyone but them and surrendering the information that keeps their account safe couldn't possibly bite them in the ass later. Then they get bit on the ass. Then they cry, ""hack!"" and everyone who knows better cries, ""stupid!"" and before you know it all you've got left are a bunch of people with sore asses crying at one another. " . RELATED LINKS: http://community.mytypes.com/wowgold01/w Post a comment in response: |
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