What Should I Do About Account Sharing?

[Fry]

I have another list 12 people who have shared there MMOBugs account information with others within the last 2 hours. I haven't acted on it just yet.

Everyone tells me I should do something different to them so what I'd really like to know is what the members think I should do.

Poll closes in two days.

Fry.

[Z166204]

They've been warned already. I say either remove the subscription and/or ban em. If temporary ban it should last atleast through the next client patch.

[Fry]

BTW feel free to speak your mind in this thread. There will be no punishment for doing so. I want honest responses.

Fry.

[Psycotic]

I'm all for people making ammends, coming clean, taking responsibility, behing honest, having some morals, and doing the right thing.

Granted, we're dealing with a bunch of hackers here.

I would say if you are sharing your account with others, stop it now, change your password, and PM Fry and let him know about it.. I'll bet you'll get more praise for being honest than flame for sharing. If you do the right thing, you'll not only show your honesty, you'll win alot of respect from the others here.

If you just ignore it and try to cheat the system, you'll end up losing more than your account. We have a great community here, and the majority are more than willing to help out. It's well worth the price.

[WickedMofo]

First offense I would change their password and send out a stern Warning. After that I say flat out IP banning. Perhaps there are circumstances where someone from Arizona is visiting a relative in Michigan and is just checking while they are there, but I would say that if you see repeated things over a period of time the red flag should go up.

[maxine2]

i look at it this way, i am paying for a service at mmobugs, and i am very happy for it. Sharring an account to MMobugs = stealing from every one here.

if the IP comes from 2 different ends of the world and its very sure it cant be the same person downloading it for different machines.

first an E-mail, saying stop it, after that i say FRY them )P

Maxine

[Phibes]

I’ve already screwed up this way.

The idea was to get more users to support the site.

Go here and try it out, if you like it then pony up for a subscription.

Most did just that, but two didn’t.

One called when I changed my password. I reminded him that I’d asked him to support the site. He remembered and bought a lifetime membership that day.

The other person got mad. Sadly that’s par for the course with this person.

I would have just sent the zip, but I thought it was important for them to see the forums and such. It didn’t backfire to bad.

The total number of people that come here now from this is probably about 30. They are all hooked good and will not be leaving anytime soon.

[Larsen]

I agree with Wicked, change their password and send them a warning e-mail. If they do it again permanently close the account and IP ban.

At the end of the day, the people sharing their account info are adding nothing to the community as a whole, and leaching away more than they should. They are no great loss.

[gome_0ne]

I agree with wicked

[fathead]

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so 131 members and 220 downloads. I edited out everyone who downloaded just once. I think a better question would be why the F#$* do these people need this downloaded 3+ times.? even one downloading a total of 10 times.

just food for thought. Im not calling people out im sure there are defenses im just curious as all get out why so many times.