what's riot's stance on trading accounts?

shyv·Feb 13, 2016·2 votes·884 views

not buying or selling accounts, not boosting accounts. just giving your account to someone else

saw a post from some guy that quit league, gave out his username and password, and said anyone that wants it can have it.

is this bad? or against the rules in some way? i know buying accounts is illegal, but the only thing being traded is the account. i didn't pay him or give him anything in exchange and he hasn't asked for anything. it's free.

also, can my main get banned for using this account? i have full permission from the guy to use it, but i don't want to if it means im risking my main being permabanned. not worth it.

18 Comments

ModUlanopoFeb 14, 20167 votes

To begin with, I wouldn't touch an account that someone abandoned in that way with a 10-foot pole. Nothing good can come from that.

But, in a more general sense, I wouldn't accept someone else's account regardless of the circumstances because it's not your account. I can't emphasize enough that any sort of account transfer or sharing is against the ToS and can lead to all sorts of problems. Just don't. It's not worth it.

shyvFeb 14, 20164 votes

i'll admit to having logged onto the account just to see if i could or if he was just messing with me, and after seeing his chat logs i definitely had the same thought. guy is SUPER racist and i don't really want that kind of reputation associated to any of my accounts.. but at the same time, if riot didn't mind account trading, i'm not going to pass up a free account. just thought i'd ask. gonna let it go though.

thanks for the advice, i basically consider you guys rioters so if you tell me not to do something im gonna not lol

NucoOct 24, 20161 votes

If a friend gives you an account because they quit league, is that banable?

ModUlanopoOct 24, 20161 votes

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If a friend gives you an account because they quit league, is that banable?

Yes.

NucoOct 24, 20161 votes

Dang. So if a friend of yours quit league and wanted to give another friend their account that they will probably not use anymore, that account will be most probably be banned simply since it was given? In this specific case that doesn't sound very fair to me. Rather than the account not get used it might as well be played on by someone else, that's how i see it. Why am i wrong?

ModUlanopoOct 24, 20161 votes

Mostly because it raises all sorts of nasty ownership questions. Let's say you take up that account your friend is offering, play on it for a couple of years and spend some real money on it. Then your friend decides to return to League and petitions account recovery for it back.

Who owns the account?

NucoOct 25, 20161 votes

ah i see. I guess it depends on the friend, but i get the point now.

BigBellBruteOct 24, 20161 votes

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If a friend gives you an account because they quit league, is that banable?

That account can indeed be banned.

Deep Terror NamiFeb 13, 20165 votes

Account sharing is against the ToS under any circumstance.

https://support.riotgames.com/hc/en-us/articles/201751664-Protecting-Your-Account#h2q1

shyvFeb 13, 20161 votes

so what does this mean exactly? does that put my main account at risk if i use the other account? or is it just sort of frowned upon?

ModWulf HelhammerFeb 13, 20161 votes

Don't think your main account, no. But the other one? Most likely, yes

shyvFeb 13, 20161 votes

i just don't want riot to think im up to something sketchy. im pretty sure if you do something REALLY bad riot can ip ban. but i have other people who play league on my computer too so im not really sure how that works out.

ZombiemasterFeb 13, 20161 votes

You don't have to worry about IP bans. Riot does not issue those at all as they can cause a lot of collateral damage.

NaramielFeb 14, 20161 votes

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Account sharing is against the ToS under any circumstance.

https://support.riotgames.com/hc/en-us/articles/201751664-Protecting-Your-Account#h2q1

What's linked here is Riot's advice on protecting your account, not any kind of rule or legal document. Their Terms of Use say "You may not share your Account with anyone other than as expressly set forth herein", but they don't actually say anything else on the subject. The most straightforward interpretation of this is that the original user is violating the terms, not you. Though it's certainly the case that the original user could probably steal his account back at some point if he ever wanted to, and/or get that account banned.

Deep Terror NamiFeb 14, 20162 votes

It's right at the top of the section linked.

You may not share your account with anyone, not even a friend or a family member. Doing so is against our Terms of Use, for a number of reasons that are listed below:

itsfredagainFeb 13, 20161 votes

hmmm if your not purchasing the account i dont see the problem... but im not a riot employee so

shyvFeb 13, 20161 votes

yea thats kind of what i was thinking too but i don't want to risk my main getting banned for doing something "illegal" if it is against the rules. it's not like ive stolen the account or payed for it or anything, that i could understand getting my main banned for, but he doesnt want the account anymore and i do

WolfessOct 24, 20161 votes

best thing you can do is just:

1: don't even touch the account because Riot will see the IP when you log on. If they suspect that an account is in the hands of another person based on history, then they will very likely suspect you of account sharing/buying and that could potentially also affect your main account and any other account sharing that IP and be subject to being permanently suspended.

2: your friend can submit a ticket to riot saying that they wish to "freeze" the account so that it cannot be played on so that others do not try to steal or abuse it and then at some point in the future if your friend wants to try their hand at playing league again, then they can contact riot again saying that they wish to un-freeze the account and have it active again (hopefully by that time your friend will have matured and not be quite so racist as you mentioned them being.)

also if you know anyone else that plays league that lives around you, please tell them to not accept the account as they can get into trouble as well.