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DarkPlasmaBall
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States44919 Posts
January 25 2012 19:45 GMT
#21
It's not illegal to level up another person's account. It's just arguably stupid, considering you're not actually good enough to play people at the new account level when you get it back, and so you'll just get your ass kicked over and over again.

But I don't see how it could be considered illegal o.O
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rasnj
Profile Joined May 2010
United States1959 Posts
January 25 2012 19:50 GMT
#22
1) Both people can be in the wrong. Dragon may or may not be doing something immoral and hurtful, but that does not excuse cheating and racist comments.

2) People in player X's streamchat tends to like player X and what he does. You will obviously not get an objective view on Dragon from his own streamchat, just as in any other stream.

3) Why the hell do you care about what chat is saying anyway? These days it is mostly people trying to be funny with old bad jokes (day9 dead, X is American, opponent is MC/Idra, etc.), balance complaints, attempts to incite balance complaints or arguments ("who is better destiny or day9? just curious", "do you think blink is op", "is day9 really gm level", etc.), and people responding to these stupid questions as if they were meant genuinely. There may be 1 in 50 messages with meaningful content, but it is lost in the many useless messages. Just don't look at chat. There are a few exceptions, in particular I have noticed that TLO's chat seems to be fairly civil.



Dragon usually doesn't bm his opponents, and if he does it is usually as a response to bm.

I don't like him playing on smurfs because I would like an effective ladder, but really why do you care so much? There are many people who do this, most notably the thousands that drop their rank in an attempt to get achievements. Anyway if you play against an opponent you don't like just leave the game and block communication if he tries to contact you, ladder points aren't really important and if your feeling of self-worth is hurt by the defeat screen just tell yourself that your opponent was MVP smurfing, no one else cares about your win/loss ratio but you. Also how is it illegal? It may be against the ToS, but no one cares about the ToS except blizzard.
darkscream
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Canada2310 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-01-25 20:01:43
January 25 2012 19:57 GMT
#23
If blizzard detects what he's doing, those accounts will get banned. Stop sticking your nose where it doesn't belong, or man up and report the behaviour yourself.

And to the people who say it's not illegal: Yes, it is. You can't let anyone use your account, for any reason, ever. Huk and TLO once received a warning from Blizzard, as HuK was using TLO's account to play an EU tournament I believe.

Obviously it's a pretty hard thing to enforce, but it is in fact a rule.


edit: Source http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=236979
Condor Hero
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States2931 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-01-25 20:03:45
January 25 2012 20:03 GMT
#24
Lol this isn't a MMORPG or RPG what kind of person wants someone else leveling their account?
What purpose does this serve?
MasterOfChaos
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
Germany2896 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-01-25 20:11:29
January 25 2012 20:05 GMT
#25
On January 26 2012 04:57 darkscream wrote:
If blizzard detects what he's doing, those accounts will get banned. Stop sticking your nose where it doesn't belong, or man up and report the behaviour yourself.

And to the people who say it's not illegal: Yes, it is. You can't let anyone use your account, for any reason, ever. Huk and TLO once received a warning from Blizzard, as HuK was using TLO's account to play an EU tournament I believe.

Obviously it's a pretty hard thing to enforce, but it is in fact a rule.


edit: Source http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=236979

There is a difference between being illegal, and just violating bnet ToS. Violating ToS is, by itself,perfectly fine IMO. I've been doing that for year. What the community frowns upon, and what is against the ToS is often different.

This specific behavior sound legal, but against ToS to me. And personally I dislike it too.
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Rinny
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States616 Posts
January 25 2012 20:17 GMT
#26
what a terrible op
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ROOTIllusion
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States1060 Posts
January 25 2012 20:21 GMT
#27
Leveling accounts is against blizzard's TOS. I remember SelecT had a leveling account system but he stopped once he found out the breach of TOS.
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almins
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
Wales39 Posts
January 25 2012 20:24 GMT
#28
uhm... if im there laddering and i end up up playing someone who's id i recognize as a pro player then i aint gonna be bothered. in fact i would be happy for multiple reasons. 1. i get to play a pro. 2. better to play someone gosu to improve . i could go on but i cba. No need to wine about what he does in his time. Hes entertaining and is loved by many many people for his entertainment.
darkscream
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Canada2310 Posts
January 25 2012 20:25 GMT
#29
On January 26 2012 05:05 MasterOfChaos wrote:

There is a difference between being illegal, and just violating bnet ToS.


no there's not, don't be semantic, don't pick apart the specific word I used. It's illegal, forbidden, not recommended, against the rules. If blizzard catches you, they can ban you. They might choose not to, they might not catch you. but they could. End of story.
AnachronisticAnarchy
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States2957 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-01-25 20:56:26
January 25 2012 20:54 GMT
#30
On January 26 2012 05:25 darkscream wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 26 2012 05:05 MasterOfChaos wrote:

There is a difference between being illegal, and just violating bnet ToS.


no there's not, don't be semantic, don't pick apart the specific word I used. It's illegal, forbidden, not recommended, against the rules. If blizzard catches you, they can ban you. They might choose not to, they might not catch you. but they could. End of story.


There is a difference. It is not against the law and therefore is not illegal. It is against the ToS, and thus against the rules.
This is not a (pardon the French) HUGE MOTHERFUCKING DEAL. This is a problem, both people were in the wrong, but it doesn't deserve an explosion of rage.
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Chill
Profile Blog Joined January 2005
Calgary25986 Posts
January 25 2012 20:56 GMT
#31
I've PMd him to stop advertising leveling up accounts on his stream before.
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SeaSwift
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Scotland4486 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-01-25 21:20:38
January 25 2012 21:17 GMT
#32
On January 26 2012 05:25 darkscream wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 26 2012 05:05 MasterOfChaos wrote:

There is a difference between being illegal, and just violating bnet ToS.


no there's not, don't be semantic, don't pick apart the specific word I used. It's illegal, forbidden, not recommended, against the rules. If blizzard catches you, they can ban you. They might choose not to, they might not catch you. but they could. End of story.


According to bnet ToS, you aren't allowed to use the colour enhancer thing that people like -orb- use, or use the medic main menu pic, and yet Browder has said he is fine with the colour and nobody has been banned yet for the medic.

Bnet ToS isn't the be all end all to being right or wrong.

Edit: also, sorry to be pedantic, but there is a difference between steam sniping and stream cheating. Because both aren't considered good practice, most people in the community to talk about them enough for the two definitions to be well defined/understood.

Steam sniping = watching a stream so you know when the streamer is starting a game, and clicking "find match" at the same time in order to get a higher chance of playing them (assuming roughly equal ranking/MMR).

Steam cheating = watching a stream while playing so that you can know what they are doing and counter it easily without scouting.

You can do both at the same time, but you don't have to. I know people, especially when MC was on EU ladder before HSC, who attempted to snipe, but none of them would dream of stream cheating.
DEN1ED
Profile Joined December 2009
United States1087 Posts
January 25 2012 21:56 GMT
#33
On January 26 2012 04:28 ranshaked wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 26 2012 04:25 PenguinWithNuke wrote:
Wait a sec, did you say that the other guy stream sniped Dragon? If he did, he got what was coming to him...

Nice logic, OP.

More or less, as he realized he wasn't playing against the real owner of the account and it was actually Dragon he said he would stream snipe...The chat went nuts and was making fun of the guy really hardcore. The chat seemed to have forgotten that Dragon himself was caught stream sniping himself. It just all seemed hypocritical. He wouldn't have stream cheated if it had been the actual user using the account.

I wonder how many other pros/grandmaster players level accounts. I've had some games in which I'm confused..I mean I get utterly destroyed and wonder, how is he still in gold?


WTF. If the guy stream sniped Dragon then he WANTED to play vs dragon. And now you are crying about it for him because he got his ass kicked? Also, how is a low level SC player having a chance to play vs a pro such a bad thing? I would love to play vs him. I'd get my ass kicked but it would be fun. if you are a diamond level player and the only reason you play the game is to win, you're doing it wrong imo.
Glurkenspurk
Profile Joined November 2010
United States1915 Posts
January 25 2012 22:23 GMT
#34
The fact that people have forgiven a maphacker/streamcheater that promised to never play in tournaments again because he makes silly faces on steam is disgusting enough.
xSixGeneralHan
Profile Joined April 2011
United States528 Posts
January 25 2012 22:27 GMT
#35
It's against blizzards ToS to level accounts for money, they will ban it if they see it. It's also frowned upon a lot by community
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Rubber
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States150 Posts
January 25 2012 22:39 GMT
#36
I think the OP is mixing up stream sniping (queuing up at the same time as a streamer in order to play them) and stream cheating (having a streamer's stream open while playing them, which doesn't necessarily include stream sniping). I see a few people getting confused by that.
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SeaSwift
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Scotland4486 Posts
January 25 2012 23:26 GMT
#37
On January 26 2012 07:23 Odal wrote:
The fact that people have forgiven a maphacker/streamcheater that promised to never play in tournaments again because he makes silly faces on steam is disgusting enough.


Well, he still can't play in tournaments... I don't know what you mean by forgiven = disgusting. There are tons of pros who used to do shady things, and over time the community accepted them again. TT1 springs to mind. DesRow. Lots of people.
omgimonfire15
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
United States233 Posts
January 25 2012 23:58 GMT
#38
Wow there are some people who like to hold grudges here. I am totally for allowing people to level up accounts. It lets idiots realize that they gain nothing from it, as if you are bronze and suddenly grandmaster, you will undoubtedly go back to bronze. I fail to see why dragon is at fault here (besides the technical rules). He got stream sniped and then bmed, so he decided to BM back. I also fail to see why people are so immature as to hold grudges for what he did in the past. People make mistakes and they learn from them. If he does it again however, then we can start to blame him.
atmuh
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States246 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-01-26 00:02:48
January 26 2012 00:00 GMT
#39
what dragon does is against blizzards tos and to be completely honest he should be banned from the game for doing it
didnt read the thread so i didnt see people are discussing this already but yeah
Love and Justice
Profile Joined August 2011
United States87 Posts
January 26 2012 06:47 GMT
#40
Sad to say there are sites out there that promotes boosting account for money. I guess people are stupid enough to pay so they can get their silver league account to master, so they can show it off to their friends lol. Seems like Dragon has stopped boosting accounts (maybe got warned or someone told him that was a Bannable Offense).
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