Hello everyone, i’ve been wondering, if you buy new pc , can you get banned for logging and playing on it? (It sounds stupid i know) Or do i have to be connected to different wifi etc. To get banned?
I’ve read somewhere that people got banned for this, or maybe i just missunderstood it. Anyway, thank you for answers and have a great day <3
You will get banned if you connect from multiple IPs on different regions in a short period of time.
I can’t login in Europe and after 10 minutes login from USA. Cause none will belive I took 10 minutes to go from Europe to USA.
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^^ This
I’ve logged on in various locations without issue when travelling.
One of my friends can play at work and takes a gaming laptop with her to do keys in the evening.
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I play on my laptop at work and a different pc at home. Never been an issue.
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Same. Back in TBC I was level 38… 2 more levels to first mount but I was about to go on holiday to Mexico! So I did what any addict would do… packed my laptop and took it with me to get those last two levels lol.
In the case of a suspicious IP detection, they only “soft-lock” the account in order to protect it in the event your account has been compromised. It is easily unlocked by logging into battle.net and changing your password.
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With a VPN I can look like I am anywhere in the world. I’ve sometimes left it on looking like I’m in the US switched it off later with no problem.
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I logged using VPNs from different countries around the world within a short period of time, and no ban (not even a warning).
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Which is why Blizzard don’t support the use of VPN’s and some users find themselves soft-locked because of it. Less so however if the account has an authenticator attached.
They won’t ban an account for a supicious IP, they will just soft-lock the account which as I stated earlier, the user can unlock by changing password.
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Nope, you won’t have any problems.
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Haven’t even had a soft lock with my VPN.
Do you have an authenticator or SMS protect?
Yes I have an autheticator, but even then it hasnt asked me to reauthenticate as the authentication is likely cached on the PC.
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Yes, if you have any two-factor authentication, the IP detection is far less picky 
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Oh, you too huh? ¬_¬
Multiple devices aren’t an issue
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A couple of years ago when it was my 10th Wedding Anniversary I was banned from bringing the gaming laptop 
I missed raid opening.
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You dont get banned. You get locked. Similar but not the same. However this doesnt go for everyone. Since my authenticator on phone is active they ignore my account that way. My Diablo 3 account (who runs on the same protocol as wow) for instance got whitelisted a while ago because Blizzards system was not smart enough to realize that it was me who connected even after unlocking the account with a serial key of old several times in a row.
I wanted to try different linux distros and how they work with wow and in 1 day I went through 5 different distros reinstalling wow each time by copying the files over from an nvme drive. So technically it was a different pc’s about 5 times in one day and i didn’t get banned or hear anything.
I still regularly boot into windows to play wow and sometimes boot into linux on another drive and play wow, never had issues.
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if I remember correctly by the rule any form of game-streaming to another device is forbidden. Since you want to use another device, this situation may fall under that rule.
But as always, they formulate is so vaguely that it can be triggered by anything or nothing.
He wants to buy a new PC. It wont fall under that rule. You can even play on Linux if you want despite there being no official support for it (and thats just the OS). Otherwise 99% or so of the playerbase would have been banned at this point. At the latest when they were forced to upgrade between xpacs.
You get locked if the system determines that something might be fishy. Which you can then instant unlock with a serial key of old or whatever other options there are. I regulary unlocked my account with my TBC key.
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Oh, was it just about the purchase of another device? Then I have misunderstood it.
Then it’s more than fine.
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