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That sucks about your account, but thats what happens when you get caught. I have a 70 orc shammy a 65ish Tauren Warrior and god knows how many lvl 40 alts that i will never use again if your interested in an account...
They go by how long you stay logged in for once. Usually you get a small ban maybe 24 hours or 3 days. I buddy had them do this it was his first offense and they put (suspected botting) and he got 3 days so did you have anything else you ever got banned for?
Anyway they can ban my IP if they see someone is playing and say he tries to log in and it kicks him off or vice versa this throws up a red flag they may not do anything but on top of that they notice the character is logged in for many hours at a time. And yeah most of those companies will deny using bots but most do unfortunately. I can level quicker then the grinders anyway since they only grind mobs with little to no quest I can max my XP per hour with questing and such.
I for one dont mind people paying to be pwl'd. Just MO. Some with families who have friends that play and such maybe cant put in the time to lvl. Though i will say if there just starting out. But if they have time to get 4 chars to lvl 40 then they should have time to get 1 to 70. Anyway Blizzard is still getting there 15 bucks a month so in the end who does it hurt? now gold farming and buying gold i dont think is right because thats just hurting the game economy..
What i can say.... good job Blizzard team!
OP i hope you learn well from this lesson.
I'm not saying that I agree with it, I was just pointing out what is in the TOS. In pratice, many, many people do it and I think it's pretty low on the list of things that Bizzard cares about. However, officially, every warm body is supposed to have their own seperate account - and nobody but that person is supposed to be logging into it.
Of course they will never know if it's happening in the same house. Red flags only go up when people start logging into the same account from all over the country (or world) within very short periods of time.
That does not sound right to me, as for each level takes longer.
My primary motivation is that the game was too easy. The leveling is trivial, little to no danger of dying. Kill X of these, Y of that, the zones are small and cramped, packed fully with mobs, you just stand there and spam the frostbolt over and over and over and over again. This worked for me when the game mechanics were new but now it is just mindbending.
I have a lot more fun in instances, where you have to work to stay alive. I was really looking forward to heroics. I want intense fights where you need to be on you toes and watch out for what is happening, not the hitting three keys and win. Getting into an instance at 65 is almost impossible. Wait is hours or so.
This is what leveling is:
frostbolt, frostbolt, frostbolt, frostnova, icelance, icelance, icelance
You killed 1/30 ogres
If you had read the EULA, you'd have seen that sharing your account is forbidden. What you did used account sharing: you allowed someone else to access your account. Don't be mad at them: just buy a new account and have fun!
Then why 'play' if you aren't having fun?
Well, according to the Terms of Use you are allowed to let one of your children use your account:
You may not share the Account with anyone, except that if you are a parent or guardian, you may permit one (1) minor child to use the Account when not in use by you.
wow lol.......... that game needs to die in a fire. but op LOL!!! power leveling service next time just sell the account and earn some money and buy something for house or the kid.
A good point has been made here.
Allow me to elaborate: World of Warcraft is boring and grindy enough to warrant a purchasable Power Leveling service, and is run by immature money-mongers who would prefer you suffer through their generic content than allow you to get to the best of it at a faster pace.
Had the game been more entertaining and accessible, the OP would not have to use such alternatives to have a shot at enjoying it.
So, if you have a life, don't try to play World of Warcraft. Doing so is a dangerous risk to your potential time investment as you may be banned for the game's shortcomings.
You can level just by questing and doing dungeons appropriate to your level, grinding levels is slow and yes tedious. Your excuse here is absolute bollocks!
Powerlevelling companies and gold sellers are the worst sharks in the buisness, if you are old enough to be responsible for a wife and kids you should be wordly wise enough to appreciate this. I'm sorry you lost your account but lets face it, you got owned.
You can level just by questing and doing dungeons appropriate to your level, grinding levels is slow and yes tedious. Your excuse here is absolute bollocks!
What do you do in dungeons and quests? Kill things... deliver things... return things... you can also do it in groups. Oh how interesting.
The fact is that it's impossible to level up to 70 without doing some heavy mob grinding with or without quests. Maybe you accept those boring 'filler' quests (kill X of Y) as just part of the experience, but some people prefer to have some flavor in whatever they're digesting.
In all honesty, he was describing the game at it's core, so your excuse is bollocks.
World of EverQuest is nothing more than recycled manure. Same shit, new smell. Not everyone enjoys it as much as you.
Rock a FailCom avatar now and express your disgust with pride!
The truth hurts...
Funcom RX
That was a little harsh.
Just curious-you work 14 hour days, im assuming you spend between 6-8 hours sleeping, that leaves you with 2-4 hours of "free time". Yet, how much "free time" can you have with a family, let alone a newborn? I hope you aren't one of the those people I have met online that totally neglect their family because they are addicted to gaming (the family suffers the most). But maybe you aren't one of those people and instead just an asshole with amazing time management.
P.S.
like they care about YOUR money...
by all probability blizzard checks the IPs your account is logged from and if the IP is from a "known powerlever service provider" you get banned. THey don't ban you for playing at internet cafés for example, but I know you know that already
I guess I am a little mystified. I really don't care about the whole PL issue as bad or good.
But why did you continue to play? I mean when I get to the point that I would prefer to have someone else to play my account i usually just cancel. Especially in a game like WoW where even if its tempting because you have your final build and would like to try it out. After you try it out and contemplate using it anywhere becomes rather tiresome since then you face the icky endgame grind. Can't get much worse of an endgame than an EQ clone.
I wanted a flying mount, and see what was like at 70. Are battlegrounds better/worse, I was also curious about heroic instances.
ok.
i dont care about any thing. not even talk about tht that was cheating.
but even i would be afraid to give my acc to any one. if its a friend u know in real life then i wouldn't mind but to a total stranger, definatly no.
first i would be too scared from thinking they might get my info through the acc.
second i would be scared tht person would take interest in my high lvl chars and change the bass and the email for the acc.
third no matter how much i trust them, i still dont know anything about them. they may do something to mess up my acc or steal all my things and leave me with the char bare naked with nothing in my inventory or bank.
The companies ban you not because its the right thing to do but because they make more money from banning you. Most people don't quit after being banned. They try to get right back to maximum lvl so the company makes more money because you are playing longer since you had to start from lvl 1 again.
Jesus, and I thought I was a slow leveler.