Shareplay allowed = powerleveling allowed?

Criminal_Scum

is this true?
@ZOS_GinaBruno
i found this Support article - https://help.elderscrollsonline.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/29580
it means another person can play on our accoint without any consequences?

really?

WalksonGraves

How would you ever prove it even if it wasn't?

Criminal_Scum

but does it means account sharing also allowed?

Wollust

Account sharing is not allowed.

JamieAubrey

Account Sharing - NO
Power levelling - Be my guest, my fastest tome 1-50 is about 4 hours

kenneth.friisb16_ESO

Well, I guess it isn't technically account sharing then

SaRuZ

The real question is why would you want to?

I remember reading an article a few years back about a guy who had been down with Ever Quest for years. He was filthy rich, best gear in game, all the houses etc. He had a best friend whom he had never met irl but played with for all those years and built trust. He went out of town on business or something icr and asked his friend to look after his character(pay rent on houses, dues in guilds, whatever) Then he gave his log in info to his friend. His best friend logged in and stole all his gold and deleted his character, literally years gone.

Moral of the story, never share your account with anyone! Unless it's your wife.

Turelus

Almost no MMO will allow account sharing because it creates a nightmare for them when people fall out with one another and start messing with accounts.

Depending on how good ZOS GM/Security team is account sharing is also a terrible idea because if x player is banned for RMT/Exploiting then they might assume that y player is just an alt of that player and ban the account too.

This is what happens on EVE Online and why they are very strict on account sharing (though everyone does it).

Criminal_Scum

JamieAubrey wrote: »

Account Sharing - NO
Power levelling - Be my guest, my fastest tome 1-50 is about 4 hours

i mean people can and they actually doing this - paying real money, and other persons on PS4 using shareplay to do powerleveling ant other things for them

and if shareplay is allowed
so such activity is supporting too?

SaRuZ

So Sony allows that but only gives you guys 1 gig for mods on Skyrim? Lol

Danikat

Turelus wrote: »

Almost no MMO will allow account sharing because it creates a nightmare for them when people fall out with one another and start messing with accounts.

Depending on how good ZOS GM/Security team is account sharing is also a terrible idea because if x player is banned for RMT/Exploiting then they might assume that y player is just an alt of that player and ban the account too.

This is what happens on EVE Online and why they are very strict on account sharing (though everyone does it).

I think this is the case with most games.

Officially they don't allow account sharing but unofficially it's not strictly enforced, in some games people even talk openly about sharing an account between a family or with a friend with no consequences. Where it does come into play is if those people have a disagreement. If you and your sister play on the same account and she "steals" all your gold to buy a horse for her character you can't contact Support and demand they give you your gold back. If you get banned you can't say "I'm innocent. It was my friend who got on my account and said all those horrible things in chat, I shouldn't be banned for it!" They put it in the TOS so they have the right to treat each account as one person, regardless of what you do with it.

But I'm not sure how strictly ZOS enforces it. I don't know for example if you openly posted on the forum that you and your sister share an account whether that would be enough to get you banned, or if they'd ignore it and only ban you if one of you did something (else) wrong.

I also think it works differently on PC and on consoles. On PC it's strictly 1 copy of the game per person. Each copy can only be used to create 1 account so if you wanted to share it you'd be sharing a bank, sharing 8 (or 12) characters between you, have to be in all the same guilds etc. Whereas as I understand it (as a PC-only player) on consoles you can buy 1 copy of the game and then create an ESO account for each account on the console and each of them will be completely separate.

Turelus

I mean I have let people access my account, I am not proud of it but I have (please no ban ZOS!).

I was on holiday in Iceland when they put a limited time Guar mount on sale so I had to have a friend log in and purchase it for me. That said I am also wise enough to change the account passwords from time to time.

I wouldn't recommend letting anyone access you account for paid services such as levelling as you don't know what these people will do. CCP have often said in their security presentations that the people most likely to hack your accounts are gold sellers and levellers as they have access to passwords you provided them or other details you've provided them (account names, emails, payment information, etc.).

Remember that paid services or gold are not out to help you, they're there to make money and they will do it any way they can. Even if that means selling you a service then screwing you later down the line.

Any way this is getting off topic of the PS4 specific issue.

jedtb16_ESO

SaRuZ wrote: »

The real question is why would you want to?

I remember reading an article a few years back about a guy who had been down with Ever Quest for years. He was filthy rich, best gear in game, all the houses etc. He had a best friend whom he had never met irl but played with for all those years and built trust. He went out of town on business or something icr and asked his friend to look after his character(pay rent on houses, dues in guilds, whatever) Then he gave his log in info to his friend. His best friend logged in and stole all his gold and deleted his character, literally years gone.

Moral of the story, never share your account with anyone! Unless it's your wife.

could make for a really messy divorce...

Hallothiel

Play on a PS4 and on our ps4 the other accounts can only play eso as they would any other game. Ie put the disc in & load. They have no access to any of the dlcs purchased on my account nor my sub benefits.

But my teenagers have been known to have a go on my account when I leave the room for a while. Just to annoy. And try & prove they are better players than me. And because they apparently think the game is rubbish......but they never do anything of significance.