When playing the World of Warcraft, if the any circumstance where you should divulge your username/password?

Question

My son is after something that will enable his to "level up" quicker. He found a web site that we can purchase this for his but the supplier has requested his username and password which we are reluctant to provide. Last time my son gave out this info while playing the game, someone hacked into his account and "stole" a lot of money and other stuff.

Answer 1

That website is what is called a powerlevelling service - i.e. you pay them X amount of money and someone in China (who most likely also works as a gold farmer) will play your son's character for you to level him as fast as possible. If they use bot programs or similar to provide this service and Blizzard find out, your son's account will be banned so he will have lost all his progress and the money you paid the powerlevellers. And of course, if you provide your login information they can get access to your address, card details and almost everything else they need to hack your account at a later date and steal your sons items and gold so they can make a profit selling this gold in real life (even if you change your password).



Bottom line is never give out your account information, because you can lose so much progress and there is often no recourse if this happens - if you've been genuinely hacked then Blizzard will do their best to help you out, but if you've been giving out account information then they will be much less sympathetic.



If he wants to level up faster, I suggest using the free guides on this site http://www.wow-pro.com/leveling_guides or alternatively there are powerlevelling guides out there in pdf form which cost around $10. Stay safe and have fun.

Answer 2

What your son is trying to do is called Power Level. This is illegal and Blizzard (the owners of World of Warcraft) will figure out what happened and ban your sons account.

These site many come from china and they have someone play your sons account while he is not playing. Blizzard checks all IP addresses to see if there is a change in them. If this happens they will block the account. This will happen before they even investigate the reason behind the IP change. Then they will look into your sons account most of the time they will look before the IP change to see how much Gold, Level of character and how the characters gear is. If there is a big change that account will be ban. There for when your son tries to log on again he will not be able to. You then will have to contact blizzard to try to plead your case 99.9 % of the time blizzard has enough evidence to not unlock your account. If they do not unlock your account all the progress that your son has made will be lost. Plus if you still have time left before you are required to purchase time to play will be lost.

These sites also will see all of your credit card info, your address, and all kinds of information that you do not want people getting. Blizzard takes your personal information with high priority and tries to keep it secure but there are plenty of ways that a good hacker can still get it.

You son does not need to have these web sites to get him to level faster, if he will try to get into a guild (he should know what this is) there will be people on there that will try to help him get higher level the way that blizzard will allow you and you do not have to give anyone any of your information.

I hope that you understand how bad these sites are and that you should avoid these sites. I think this information will help.

Answer 3

Well find out if this is a reputable site, although powerleveling and gold buying is illegal. if you do intend on buying gold or getting power leveled make sure not to log onto any account for atleast 5 days since blizzard will see a sudden change in IP and will start investigating if you just go from the united states to china. Also if anything does go wrong you can just get all your stuff back by claiming someone hacked your account and blizz will restore it all and the gold selling company cant make any claims since it is ilegal to power level someone for money so they have no defense so you realy have nothing to loose except possibly time and real life money, though honestly power leveling is stupid since it takes away all the fun of 1-70

Answer 4

What your son found is called power leveling, someone else will log onto his account and play nonstop until his desired level is reached. This is a BAD idea because Blizzard is able to see where you account is accessed from and power leveling is a very common profession in China. Blizzard will ban your sons account for 72 hours for power leveling and if he does anything wrong again like use offensive language his account will be perma-banned. I do not reccomend using any service in WoW in which you must pay for because they all go against the user agreement which results in a ban.

Answer 5

Dont pay anyone for the power leveling service, even though there ARE legit services online that wont steal anything from your account. First of all its against Blizzards TOS. Second, your son will just miss out so much fun.

Internet is full of free tips and hints for faster leveling. Google will find you tons of strategies and tricks. Here's one good source for you as an example:

http://www.squidoo.com/warcraft-horde-leveling-guide



After all, if you are still willing to spend some money to help your son level faster, then get him a decent leveling guide, instead of paying someone for power leveling. There are quite a few of them around, for both Horde and Alliance characters. Most will help take your character to level 70 in under a week. For $20-$30 you will get full step by step instructions.

Mind, its soo much more fun to do all the leveling yourself, instead of watching someone do it for you for your own money.

Hope this helps.

Answer 6

COOKIE what your son is doing is (in Blizzard EULA) illegal. Buying gold and having your characters power levelled is forbidden and the account could be closed/locked/deleted by Blizzard. Blizzard own all characters and accounts, you simply rent them from Blizzard.



A friend of mine has made a very silly mistake of doing this in the past by requesting a character to be power levelled. He in turn had his account raided of all Gold and special items (Epics).



My advice to you would be to advise your son to play the game rather than "cheat". He will learn valuable spells and how to use them and when is best to use which spell via playing through the game. Yes I know it can be boring sometimes but that's the point of the game.



Finally Blizzard reiterate this alot! A Blizzard employee will never ask for your user name/password. So dont give it out.

Answer 7

Hi Cookie



It sounds like you are talking about a power leveling service in which case they will need his username and password to be able to speed level for him.



This is risky as they will always have his user name and password so i would not do this!



Just get a good guide and that is your best bet for leveling fast!



Hope this helps!

Answer 8

Never should you give out your username and or password. If he is considering buying money or buying a leveling service. That violates the blizzard contract and they will ban your computer from ever playing it again.

Answer 9

If your sons game was hacked in to, you can contact a gm in game and they can actually restore most, if not all, of your characters, gold, and most items (gear, profession items, etc.)



I have had my account hacked once and they were able to restore everything... phew!



Never give out your personal or account info.. under any circumstances. But Im sure your son learned his lesson after that, ya know?



Good luck. =)

Answer 10

Buying your way to progress or gold that way is against the rules and terms and conditions of the game, if your son gets caught, Blizzard will ban him.



Even Blizzard employees will never ask for your password.



If he's paying with credit card, that's possibly a great way for a stranger to get easy access to your credit card account for fraud too.

Answer 11

never give out your username/password.



also - if your details are stolen, there is nothing World of Warcraft can do to help since account sharing is against the T&C's.

all they can do is close the account if it has your credit card details on it.

if you still decide to take your chances, atleast get him to ask his friends first if they have used the service before. World of Warcraft is the most played game right now, so be warned there is tones of people trying to scam others.

Answer 12

Truth be told, don't give out the information at all. There are some people out there that actually do level up th character, but all they do is play for you while you do something else; work,school, etc.

The best thing to do is to just play it safe and play the game. If he wants to level up faster the best course of action is to fight creatures tougher than his character is, stronger creatures often give more "xp" which allows characters to level up.

Answer 13

Never give that information out.



There are power levelers out there that say they need that to level your character, but then the whole idea in WoW is to do the work yourself so you know how to play your character. Power leveling is for the weak willed and feeble.

Answer 14

its a well known fact that anything asking for login details along with a password especially is always a scam.

Answer 15

tell him to play the game at his own pace. he'll enjoy it more. under no circumstances give someone login details.