| Re: Selling some games; will giving my serials away risk my accounts? [message #464801 is a reply to message #464790] |
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Crimson
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| Kiwi76 wrote on Thu, 22 March 2012 11:32 |
Thanks for the feedback!| danpaul88 wrote on Thu, 22 March 2012 12:43 |
As far as I know on XWIS anyone who uses your serial number would be able to reset the passwords of any account created using that serial number and take control of them.
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| Crimson wrote on Thu, 22 March 2012 12:45 |
If you sell your games, no one can gain access to your account information using your serial(s). You should not be using the serials after you sell them, if for no other reason than if the new owner of your serial does something to get banned, you'd end up being banned, too.
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These two replies seem to conflict. Can anyone verify which way it goes?
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If it were me, I'd believe the forum administrator who is also an admin of XWIS... 
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I'm aware the account(s) are tied to the serial. I don't plan on continuing using them, since I don't anymore anyway. If I ever want to later, I'll have new ones with The First Decade. I'm just wondering if someone can gain access to the accounts, like see or take control of them, by having the serial to them.
It sounds like maybe they can with XWIS at least? I'm wondering though that if I don't use the accounts, if I should even worry given the probably small chance of something happening to begin with. I'm probably going to just hold onto Tiberium Wars and Red Alert 3 though, since while I use digital copies to play, I'm actually not sure which serial the accounts I use may be tied to.
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So, yes, with your serial, they can reset the password to your nickname and use it themselves. IF the nickname was created with that serial and not your TFD serial.
I'm the bawss.
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