EPTBlizzard warns HuK/TLO for account sharing - Page 11
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wolfe
United States761 Posts
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tehemperorer
United States2183 Posts
On June 25 2011 02:48 travis wrote: For the record, if someone's MMR can get too high to be able to get games, that's clearly an issue Blizzard needs to take care of. I think this is the crux of the problem. With MMR ceiling fixed, this all goes away or never happens. From my standpoint Blizzard acted properly, but not intelligently. Seems like a pithy thing to warn a progamer about account sharing when tourneys and team houses do it all the time, sanctioned or not. It was just unintelligent and short-sighted for the community rep to even speak up, let alone do it in a way where more than a few people would see it. | ||
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Alejandrisha
United States6565 Posts
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Vardant
Czech Republic620 Posts
On June 25 2011 02:55 ishboh wrote: i think team liquid should be able to afford an account for each of their players on each server...its a one-time cost. And who's gonna keep them in GM? Oh, you didn't think about that, did you? Imagine that... | ||
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karpo
Sweden1998 Posts
On June 25 2011 02:55 Tenz wrote: Hope they (Blizzard) read this and apologize. Because I'm gravely offended by this filth. They want Huk to buy a copy for each region so he can compete? NA, SEA, KR, EU, China, Russia etc etc. Will wait for the apology to be posted by blizz. If you feel gravely offended by stuff like this you really won't make it far in real life without breaking down. This isn't even a big deal... | ||
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eMazing
59 Posts
On June 25 2011 02:55 ishboh wrote: i think team liquid should be able to afford an account for each of their players on each server...its a one-time cost. it isn't really excusable that Huk play on TLO's account. I agree with blizzard because they are a business and having people openly 'cheating the system' on a streamed event is unacceptable. although i think that blizzard should probably let this one go assuming that Huk gets his own EU account soon. I can see why they wouldn't want to delay playing to obtain an account for Huk during the homestory cup... They have an Account for HuK in europe, but he cannot play on it for ladder because he has sat in queue for 20+ hours and he hasn't still been matched in a game. He was playing on his own account during Dreamhack. | ||
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RyanRushia
United States2748 Posts
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chickenhawk
Portugal339 Posts
Classic Blizzard to enforce the Terms of Use the players agreed on when installing the game. So classic a company enforcing an illegal contract. In europe it is illegal to present a contract after you bought something. | ||
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Meff
Italy287 Posts
On June 25 2011 02:48 travis wrote: For the record, if someone's MMR can get too high to be able to get games, that's clearly an issue Blizzard needs to take care of. It would probably be as simple as making a certain amount of people (all grandmasters? all grandmasters + top 8 master per division?) auto-pass the matchmaker filters if you're high enough. Mostly, it is a problem because the ladder is used by Blizzard for tournaments and so on and it is theoretically possible to get kicked out of grandmaster for "inactivity" or to drop in ranking due to an unused bonus pool. Otherwise it could be sort of fair to say, "There's nobody at your skill level, so the game can't auto-match you. Organize customs if you want to play." | ||
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rd
United States2586 Posts
People need to chill. Why are everyone so quick to rage over small things? And why do people equate battle.net features or lack of LAN with a community manager asking people to follow the rules? Small things? Its exactly because of sub-par battle.net features that people share accounts, and blizzard decided to target TLO and HuK, in what seems like a PR stunt. And this sucks, too. What if blizzard DID ban TLO's eu account? TLO would buy another, blizzard would make 60 more dollars, and some implicit rule would be made to not stream account sharing; even though Blizzard probably wont mass ban average players who share accounts. Players will rage at blizzard, but they don't really have to change anything. | ||
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Liquid`Nazgul
22427 Posts
On June 25 2011 02:55 ishboh wrote: i think team liquid should be able to afford an account for each of their players on each server...its a one-time cost. it isn't really excusable that Huk play on TLO's account. I agree with blizzard because they are a business and having people openly 'cheating the system' on a streamed event is unacceptable. although i think that blizzard should probably let this one go assuming that Huk gets his own EU account soon. I can see why they wouldn't want to delay playing to obtain an account for Huk during the homestory cup... Just for clarification Huk has his own account on EU but the MMR is too high to find games. | ||
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Bleak
Turkey3059 Posts
People are overreacting here because they are ready to jump on the "Blizzard Hate" bandwagon the instant they don't agree with them. | ||
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KillerPlague
United States1386 Posts
Whether account sharing is bannable or not should not be part of the thread. then what are we supposed to discuss?... | ||
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EliteReplay
Dominican Republic913 Posts
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NeWeNiyaLord
Norway2474 Posts
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Glurkenspurk
United States1915 Posts
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AnalThermometer
Vatican City State334 Posts
1. Blizzard has rules against account sharing but their "rules" are ridiculous anyway, I bought the license for my account and it should be my right to share it with whoever I want as I can with all my other posessions. 2. Whatever they recoup by threatening pro players as a scare tactic will hurt their reputation, making them seem like greedy control freaks. 3. Ladder isn't taken seriously enough to pop a vein over it, account sharing & prizes or not. | ||
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Datum
United States371 Posts
On June 25 2011 02:58 chickenhawk wrote: So classic a company enforcing an illegal contract. In europe it is illegal to present a contract after you bought something. I know nothing about the laws in Europe, but it would seem that the terms of use agreement is not for using the game, and perhaps therefore not illegal? Rather, it is for using a particular Blizzard service (Bnet), which you can't access untill after agreeing to the contract. On a more related note, while I don't agree with Blizzard doing this, I imagine there might be a good reason for it that we don't know about. I also don't think it's that big of a deal, because Huk can borrow plenty of other accounts from the privacy of the OGS-TL house. | ||
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rickybobby
United States405 Posts
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vrok
Sweden2541 Posts
On June 25 2011 03:00 Bleak wrote: If it's against their rules, it's against it. It's their game, their property, and they have every right to put in rules about account usage. People are overreacting here because they are ready to jump on the "Blizzard Hate" bandwagon the instant they don't agree with them. So why are you whining about it? It's within their rights to hate Blizzard if they feel like it. Your post is meaningless. | ||
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