Blizzard warns HuK/TLO for account sharing - Page 33

On June 24 2011 10:33 oniontx wrote:
I still can't forget that BoxeR began practising Starcraft 2 on August 14th 2010. Making an account under his name would have raised a commotion, so he made the account 'manofoneway' under my name.

On June 25 2011 07:38 Dental Floss wrote:
I have a confession; in early May I let my little brother play a game of Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty using my Battle.net account. He was visiting me at my apartment and wanted to know what the game was like. It was a ladder game and he lost.

I deeply regret my actions. I understand that they violated the trust Blizzard had placed in me by granting me an account. I wish I could go back in time and undo my mistake....but its too late.

Blizzard; please ban my account for sharing; its SaltFish.684

Again, I'm deeply sorry for my actions.

On June 25 2011 07:35 MaGariShun wrote:

Blizzard won't go out of business just because a bunch of pros share accounts when they even have an account on the server themselves. It will eventually go out of business though when it continues to piss its community off by doing stupid stuff.
And please stop with that company stuff. It's people in the end, not some mindless robots who are programmed to aquire the ultimate amount of money. By your logic they should fire everyone who doesnt work to their maximum potential every day and pay their employees only minimum wages. It isn't that way. Sure a company has to run and make profit, but not at all cost.

On June 25 2011 07:09 MichaelJLowell wrote:
How does that benefit the consumer? How does that make the product better?

On June 25 2011 07:09 MichaelJLowell wrote:Integrity of the ladder? This entire incident occurred because the top player couldn't find games on his account. Fix that first.

On June 25 2011 07:09 MichaelJLowell wrote:
How does that make the product better?

On June 25 2011 07:40 Cataphract wrote:


If a company has an employee that does not meet the goals that they are required to perform, you can bet your ass they would be fired or at least warned to shape up.

Account sharing is against the TOS. Whether you agree with that or not is irrelevant, but you still have to follow it because you agreed to it upon installing the game.

On June 25 2011 07:45 Reborn8u wrote:
I would like to tell you a little story of days long past. It was the mid 90's, my best friend John got an awesome new game called Warcraft. He said "it's like dune but way better!" He brought his cd to my house and installed a "spawn version" from his CD. It allowed us to play over our 14.4 modems (for the kids out there, you put your friends phone # in and he has his computer waiting to answer the call .The internet wasn't what it is today back then) We played for hours and hours, a week later I bought it because I wanted to practice and beat him. Then I brought my copy to my friend Cliff's and he installed the spawn, we played for hours, he soon bought a copy. Pure marketing genius. I've been buying Blizzard products ever since. What the hell happened?

On June 25 2011 07:45 Bobster wrote:

It doesn't. Blizzard puts their own benefit over that of the consumer.

On June 25 2011 07:45 Bobster wrote:
Agreed, but that doesn't diminish the legitimacy of their claim.

On June 25 2011 07:45 Bobster wrote:
It doesn't, but it could possible affect their profits. (Hence them having an interest in this - surely even you can follow this very clear and direct line of logic?)

On June 25 2011 07:45 Bobster wrote:
I'm tired of you asking unrelated questions and moving the goalposts here. I don't even know where this "bettering the product" thing came from. I've answered all of your questions patiently, I will stop that now.

And just in case you didn't catch my point the first time I made it: I said that I think Blizzard shouldn't have done this because it could (and is on its way) create a PR and community backlash far bigger than this is worth. Especially in the way they handled this, directly calling an organiser and threatening some of the most prominent and beloved members of the community with bans.

On June 25 2011 07:40 Cataphract wrote:


If a company has an employee that does not meet the goals that they are required to perform, you can bet your ass they would be fired or at least warned to shape up.

Account sharing is against the TOS. Whether you agree with that or not is irrelevant, but you still have to follow it because you agreed to it upon installing the game.

On June 25 2011 07:40 Cataphract wrote:


If a company has an employee that does not meet the goals that they are required to perform, you can bet your ass they would be fired or at least warned to shape up.

Account sharing is against the TOS. Whether you agree with that or not is irrelevant, but you still have to follow it because you agreed to it upon installing the game.

I would like to tell you a little story of days long past. It was the mid 90's, my best friend John got an awesome new game called Warcraft. He said "it's like dune but way better!" He brought his cd to my house and installed a "spawn version" from his CD. It allowed us to play over our 14.4 modems (for the kids out there, you put your friends phone # in and he has his computer waiting to answer the call .The internet wasn't what it is today back then) We played for hours and hours, a week later I bought it because I wanted to practice and beat him. Then I brought my copy to my friend Cliff's and he installed the spawn, we played for hours, he soon bought a copy. Pure marketing genius. I've been buying Blizzard products ever since. What the hell happened?

On June 25 2011 07:47 nihlon wrote:

Did you read the tos before you installed the game?

And people don't get fired for not performing to their maximum potential in real life... People aren't robots. Did you even read his post before you responded?