I just got a job in Seattle and commute back in forth between Richland and Seattle in Wa its about 200 twice a week, could logging into my account at my apartment and then at my house in Richland cause it to be locked because of different IP's?

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the correct answer is sometimes.

They do track IPs and can and have shut an account down for that.

There is even an option to do that automatically for those who don't desire authenticators. THink it sends you a text message to your phone to verify. not sure on that part. been a while since i saw that info posted.

 

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In the past an account that was logged in one location, and then logged in say, 5, 10 mins later in another say 300 miles away might be viewed as a farmer or PL service.


You're not going be doing that kind of time frame between Richland and Seattle.


It's not unreasonable for people traveling on business or a college student who plays during the week and then home on weekends.


If you really have concerns, maybe contacting Blizz customer service with a question or checking FAQs might help. On the other hand, knowing Blizz, that could get your account locked because they think you're about to use a PLing service. (Yes, I do think there are temps there that could possibly be not quite on the ball.)


Good luck.

 

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It used to not or if it did was pretty rare last 6 months or so I have had 1 account that I pay for for a friend that I would use her mage when she wasn't online to tp my characters around or make a inscribtion for me.I did this for years with no issue ever then managed to get it locked 3 diff times in past 6 moths needless to say I just stopped borrorwin it lol

I regularly log into my WoW account from two different places, distant of approx. 250km (155 miles), and I never had a problem. It's always the two same places though.

 

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It is called Network Behavioural Anomally Detector or nBAD. An nBAD has predefiend triggers that will alert to anomalous behavoir. For example in this case the nBAD may trigger if it saw your account connecting from the IP space that is seperated by great distances in short periods of time. For example, your acccount is accssed from NY and then 10 minutes later from LA. That would be remarkable and worth investigating.


If your account was logged into from NY and then 15 hours later LA, may not be considered remarkable by Blizzard and may not be investigated.

The answer is YES. Not only can it do this but it WILL do this automatically.

I recently started using a Virtual Private Network. This allows me to get onto the Internet from numerous different cities. When you connect to the Blizzard servers from different IP numbers your account is automatically shut down and you are FORCED to do a password change.

This will also happen to log on outside your normal hours.

This has happened to me personally multiple times.

When you try to protest this behavior you will be directed to Billing who will either not answer or reply with cut-and-paste non-answers and numerous links to completely irrelevant web pages.
When I posted this all on the official wow web site I was banned from their site.

Is it any wonder that so many people are now choosing to send their monthly subscription to Rift?

Huh? How does a VPN allow you to get on the internet in different cities?

 

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My account was 'locked' when I tried to log in after travelling out of country. I have an authenticator and just had to change my password to gain access.