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andiCR
Costa Rica2273 Posts
I was recently watching desrow's stream, and he was basically saying he was charging $15/h for power leveling an account. What's power leveling? As I understand it, its basically laddering on someone's account so they rank higher. Is this legal considering Blizzard's stance on people portrait farming and such? Should this be endorsed on TLnet? I mean, i love watching desrow, but charging a fee for doing something that to me seems shady doesn't make me feel comfortable.    | ||
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PassiveAce
United States18076 Posts
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iamperfection
United States9645 Posts
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Skyze
Canada2324 Posts
Of course its not legal by blizzard, ala the whole TLO/Huk fiasco. But newbs will pay anything to get that masters icon on their account I guess. edit: im surprised someone like desrow, who im assuming wants to be taken seriously as a progamer? would offer a service like this publicly.. Guess it really is all about the money for him. | ||
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SCC-Faust
United States3736 Posts
What the fuck is he thinking? | ||
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lantz
United States762 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + ^^kidding | ||
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TheSubtleArt
Canada2527 Posts
Edit: heres the thread http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=217746 Select's response I noticed it is against the rule >< I erased my leveling page | ||
Antoine
United States7481 Posts
On August 05 2011 23:59 PassiveAce wrote: Its not like its actually hurting anyone except the player who pays. Now that guy can lose $15/h and get roflstomped by people much better then him when he starts laddering. what about the people who should be matched against those roughly of their own skill but then hit desrow on the other person's account? | ||
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andiCR
Costa Rica2273 Posts
On August 06 2011 00:24 Antoine wrote: what about the people who should be matched against those roughly of their own skill but then hit desrow on the other person's account? Exactly this. The more I think about it, the lamer it gets :/ | ||
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Count9
China10928 Posts
I highly doubt this is legal because, as someone mentioned, account sharing is illegal. Though I don't know if Blizzard is going to actively stop this, it's probably not high on their priority list of things they need to handle. Of course I could be wrong, if they have enough time to send out personal letters to remind everyone, in case anyone forgot, that separating accounts by server really sucks and not let anyone practice with their region locked acounnt, they have enough time to crack down on this. | ||
Chill
Calgary25991 Posts
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Flaccid
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andiCR
Costa Rica2273 Posts
On August 06 2011 00:30 Chill wrote: Do you have any proof? Hopefully he reads this and immediately stops/ Well, he's doing it right now :/ | ||
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PeZuY
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iamperfection
United States9645 Posts
On August 06 2011 00:38 PeZuY wrote: Is this against TL rules also? From my understanding what you do on your stream is your own business but TL can choose not to support it and what not. I know in the past they ban known cheaters and hackers but this isnt cheating but it is against the terms of service so i dont know. Maybe a mod could give some clarfication. | ||
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Djagulingu
Germany3605 Posts
On August 05 2011 23:57 iPAndi wrote: Is this legal considering Blizzard's stance on people portrait farming and such? This is definitely NOT legal, but Blizzard is too busy bugging people like HuK and TLO anyway, so desrow is fine for the moment. | ||
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TelecoM
United States10688 Posts
So sad that not long ago I read the thread about him posting all that drama between Reign and Pheonix on reddit, and now this lol. Money is the root of all evil. | ||
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Dalguno
United States2446 Posts
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PassiveAce
United States18076 Posts
On August 06 2011 00:24 Antoine wrote: what about the people who should be matched against those roughly of their own skill but then hit desrow on the other person's account? Point taken, its not fair for those people to lose their points. still seems so foolish for the buyer though :p Also, why would someone watch a stream of a master crushing low level players? | ||
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moltenlead
Canada866 Posts
On July 08 2011 12:53 Destiny wrote: + Show Spoiler + On July 08 2011 12:10 smacky wrote: More about vtdesrow Hey guys, I'm a french canadian starcraft 2 player. I play protoss and I will be streaming high level practice and coaching session as well. My rate is 25$/hr. I can also grind/power-level(ladder your account) for 25$/hr up to masters. To schedule from now, you need to use this page: http://desrowfighting.com/schedule There is more information to read here: http://desrowfighting.com/coaching If you have any questions you can email me at this adress d3srow@gmail.com Here's my personal website: http://desrowfighting.com Here's m bro i thought this was a violation of eula....also you ran commercials on your stream for ttesports the last time you power leveled an account on eu...sponsor ok with you basically cheating and pimping there keyboards. never made it to masters so i guess no harm done eh. just a question...when you power level an account do you actually log in as them and play as if you are them or do you give your opponents the opportunity to object and accept your offer to quit the game because you are going to steal points otherwise? just curious if you let your hapless ladder victims know they are getting cheated themselves and then leave ofc when they would rather not donate their points to your soon to be masters cheat accomplice.... btw...i dont like when professional gamers accept money to play on other peoples accounts. i believe you are victimizing people and should be removed from the featured streamers as a result...just my humble opinion. have a nice day sir [mod edit: cat meme] srsly though, I don't know why you're making such a big deal about this. A lot of people have been known to play and smurf on accounts, it seems like you're taking incredible offense to this for no reason. From: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=182984¤tpage=14#265 It really doesn't matter that much to me if I lose 1 match due to playing a pro. Following the same logic, then aren't we doing the same thing when a pro buys a smurf and streams his placements, as he is stealing the ladder points of lower leagues as well? | ||
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