Is Sharing Accounts Ethical? Fair? - Mohammed Maher

In an interview that Daddy conducted with the #1 player in the world - Mohammed Maher stated that the top players have other people who use their accounts while they themselves are unable to stay online. These "helpers" are sometimes in different time zones so both people can actively manage the account.

The reasons for this could be:

They need sleep
They have to work
They are on vacation
They are busy watching Dr. Phil
etc...

To a mortal player like myself who hopes to increase thru the ranks by putting in the hard work, this seems a bit like...c h e a t i n g

Supercell says you cannot sell your account, but why does it allow practices such as those described by Mohammed Maher? (Who states he's not the only one)

*Prepares for bashing*

Clash On!

In many other games, U will find players hiring others to play for them
or referred as outsourcing their accounts. Is that fair?? Yet it happens.

Multiple users on a single account is common scene in any competitive online games.
Of coz this does not benefits others who 'play hard' by themselves.

The point is CoC is not an isolated case.
Should he banned for it jus becoz he confessed about it? I dont think he should.

I share accounts with a firend on other games. I dont think its unfair

Well if the rules state no account sharing then yes it is a problem and users that do should be dealt with. Does SuperCell allow it on COC? I don't know as I can't be bothered to read the rules.

Yeah its unfair, no way to stop it though. So your choices are 1) find a helper for your account OR 2) forget about ever becoming a top ranking player.

I personally opted for number 2 many months ago, let the MM's have it and I'll just happily farm with the players like myself who don't really take the game that seriously.

It's fair as long as they are not using it to c h e a t

As a clasher I dont think its the way to play the game but each to their own, if you are happy to share go for it.

As a Clan leader I am dead against it. We've already had a couple of members whose accounts had been shared with friends etc...and it caused not only a lot of confusion but a few misunderstandings as well. Thus practice is now highly frowned upon at CastingShadows.

Mind you we are not operating at Champ level, so maybe up there it is a necessity idk...but generally I think its super-lame having 'helpers' .

He also admitted that is not even HIS account, it was given to him from a friend. So?

I'm quite certain that it is against the ToS to share accounts, So if you want to speak technically. Mohammed Maher should be banned purely on the fact that he admitted to account sharing. Will supercell ban him? No.

Just to clarify account sharing is within the rules not breaking them, it's good that we are having a sensible discussion about the ethics - but it's not breaching the TOS, the video was watched by SC before they put it onto their Facebook page.

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Originally Posted by Solarous

I'm quite certain that it is against the ToS to share accounts, So if you want to speak technically. Mohammed Maher should be banned purely on the fact that he admitted to account sharing. Will supercell ban him? No.

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