Did you ever give access to your account to anyone?

No way in hell have I, or would I ever, give my info out to anyone. That includes general friends, close friends, life time friends, family members, or significant others.

It's not about trust to me. It's about the fact there is no reason why anyone, other than myself, should have access to something I have purchased.

NO! NEVER!

But people give access to me lol, well i mean they bought the game for me :P~

I have access to all my Guildies accounts as I triple box to earn HFFF Faction x 3 Also I ID golds from drops on the Guildie account that's going for the treasure hunting title. We also have a Guild account with mules for shared weapons and runes.
It's a game, we know each other in RL, what's the biggie?

I know my brother's because I used to help him out by running 2 clients and getting him places he needed to be to farm certain things when he wasn't home.

No one other than myself knows my password or the e-mail used for my account, however I do trust 2-3 people enough that if it came down to it and I couldn't be around to do something I wanted, I'd have no problem handing the info over to them

No. I know people can get corrupted if you give them enough power.....

I think I've let 1 or 2 RL friends use my account before, and there's a couple people I know in game I would trust with the info, but they've never needed it.

I've had my friend's account info before (so I could give him his birthday present)

Yes. There are a few people I trust my account with, and a bunch I don't.

Its not even that massive of a deal. I mean ok so you maybe your account gets cleared or you get banned its not like you lose your 1337 skills. You keep your uber micro unless someone jumps on your fingers.

No it is all in my head and I wouldn't even give it to personal friends or family and if I was married never to my wife.You never can tell what people will do for revenge when they are angry at you or upset.I don't take these chances.

Nope.

Nothing good can come of that.

Around Wintersday 2005 my hard drive screwed up, so I didn't have computer access at home to play Guild Wars. I gave my account info to a good friend so that he could get the hats for me. When I finally got my computer fixed I changed my password. Further, I got his account info once because he had trouble logging into the game.

Never.
12chars.

A friend has had access to my account for over a year now. He hasn't done anything to my account though, not even change my "1234 Fake Street" address. It's not like I have anything to lose though since I'm dirt poor and have no title grinders. Heck, my most-played character has 0 maxed titles. Sad, I know.

I gave my friends Trin and Elsa access to two of my accounts and I haven't regretted it yet.

mule acc yes, shared w/ my sis's fiancee which I dragged into GW xD and one guild mates very good friend.

My main acc....

NO!

2 Year and 10 month's history to risk? Mmwaahahahahahaha you must be joking.... >.>

-tora-

I wouldn't give my account details to anyone. One of my ingame friends and one of their RL friends had an argument (fairly serious), and the friend got so pissed off that they deleted all the chars on my friends account... I'm not going to take that chance.

Nothing To Add.

Yes, to a friend from my guild of Dark Age of Camelot. Played with him for like 5 years. I was away for an event (don't remember wich one) and wanted the mask, so he got it for me.
35 years old, married and stuff. So not the kind of guy who's going to mess with my virtual pixels for "revenge".
And I didn't change the password.

Some of you guys are quite pathetic. "Onoes I'm not gonna give my account infos to my wife/best real friend/brother! They are gonna delete all my stuff."

Pretty sad lives right there.

You can not do so.

The EULA is specific about it.

Rules are rules and are to be obeyed.

OBEY.

Well, MithranArkanere, people should not steal or kill because it's against the law. And yet they do. So they created the police, but we don't have an online police (cyber-security departments are in a way the police, but they're probably too virtual to many people). And as I said in the OP, I don't think you can ever blame or sue anyone for sharing the account on your computer with your wife or kids.

What I'm trying to do here is to see whether this is something that people do commonly and what kind of security measure they take, or don't take. See this for more justification:
http://playnoevil.com/serendipity/in...s-dispute.html

We can't change people with only laws, EULAs and trials. I hope that people don't misunderstand this thread (how stupid to ask whether I'd report people or collect IGNs ...), it's just the first baby step towards the realisation that account sharing is dangerous, though the danger can be managed in certain situations.

It's proving more difficult to gather statistics after page 3 as people are too concise, but I'll try to update.