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orZ5
Spain44 Posts
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jinorazi
Korea (South)4948 Posts
i'm sure they can lose some money to make all of us minions happy ~_^ | ||
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nocompromise
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Oreo7
United States1647 Posts
But yeah, just because Blizz is in the right "legally" doesn't make it ok or any less absurd. | ||
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tubs
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snexwang
Australia224 Posts
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ktimekiller
United States690 Posts
On June 25 2011 13:13 snexwang wrote: You people do realise that they were lucky to even receive a warning, right? Yea because blizzard would be dumb enough to alienate the members of the very same team that hosts the largest community site for sc2 | ||
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oBlade
United States6549 Posts
On June 25 2011 10:01 Casablancas wrote: No, I dont play SC2 to meet people from the US or Korea. There are several thousand people on the server I play on, so there are lots of people to play with and befriend. But as an American who have moved to Europe etc and want to play with his American friends i can see its is a problem. But then you can buy another account or play another game. The EU server obviously contains people from more countries than any other. But the world is still bigger than that. It's nonsense to say you can buy another account. We have all known that for like a year now. But you shouldn't have to, it's money in the toilet. | ||
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BeanerBurrito
1010 Posts
this is pretty ridiculous, no one would've even cared or really paid attention to the account sharing if blizzard hadn't tried to make it an issue i also wonder how long until blizzard realizes that it hasn't exactly been scoring points with its users for the past while now blizz used to be my favorite company, but its been on a downward spiral for awhile, this just adds to it | ||
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Devolved
United States2753 Posts
On June 25 2011 13:04 tubs wrote: You know what else is illegal? Jaywalking across the street. This is like a cop going after some innocent kids jaywalking across a completely empty street with no cars on the road. That's a pretty good analogy. Problem is, in my city they broke down on jaywalking this one certain month and gave out hundreds of tickets. They don't really enforce it now, but this one month they handed out tons of tickets for jaywalking and everyone heard about it. Now there are less people that jaywalk. | ||
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Szubie
United Kingdom294 Posts
Imo, if all they wanted was for the account sharing to not be publicised to tens of thousands of people on stream then that's perfectly fine for Blizzard: after all it is against the ToS. They didn't even ban, just warned. The account sharing itself while on stream was completely unnecessary: Huk could simply have changed back to his own account for the actual games instead of using TLO's, and casually breaking ToS and showing a bad example to many viewers. On top of that, Huk boosting TLO to rank 1 Grandmaster, evidently where he does not belong considering his previous placement undermines ladder, which is used for tournamnet invites. Of course, the fact that Huk can't get a game on his own account is a problem Blizzard needs to fix, but what they did was completely understandable in the circumstances, and this whole thread has blown the whole thing out of proportion. | ||
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oBlade
United States6549 Posts
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Kahuna.
Canada196 Posts
On June 25 2011 02:59 Liquid`Nazgul wrote: Just for clarification Huk has his own account on EU but the MMR is too high to find games. He's too good for the server. Lol! I think that would make him a 'Mega Baller' in the words of FXOqxc.  On June 25 2011 13:38 oBlade wrote: They aren't necessarily unrelated things. No LAN means no 3rd party servers where people would go for competitive integrity that Blizzard can't* guarantee on their ladder. No cross realm is a reason people might share accounts who aren't sponsored and can throw money away on accounts for multiple regions. A badly designed ladder is why HuK logged onto TLO's account in the first place. And yet Blizzard's first recourse is to treat its customers like retarded dragoons. If these problems didn't exist, we wouldn't witness things like this. That's why they're related. But, hasn't ICCup started the process of making its own SC2 server? Have they gotten in trouble for it? | ||
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NgrySqrrl
Canada36 Posts
On June 25 2011 13:38 oBlade wrote: They aren't necessarily unrelated things. No LAN means no 3rd party servers where people would go for competitive integrity that Blizzard can't* guarantee on their ladder. No cross realm is a reason people might share accounts who aren't sponsored and can throw money away on accounts for multiple regions. A badly designed ladder is why HuK logged onto TLO's account in the first place. And yet Blizzard's first recourse is to treat its customers like retarded dragoons. If these problems didn't exist, we wouldn't witness things like this. That's why they're related. understandable that Starcraft is a full-fledged community and not just Blizzard so sometimes problems are addressed by that community, but a public violation of the ToS by such prominent members of said community couldn't have gone unpunished. Blizzard has their integrity, as well as the integrity of their ladder to protect so they threatened punishment, knowing full well that the players and fans would hear about it, and then rescinded their threat to a mere warning so to get their message out there. I think that looking at the situation, Blizzard handled it very strategically. | ||
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Diamond
United States10796 Posts
On June 25 2011 13:46 Kahuna. wrote: But, hasn't ICCup started the process of making its own SC2 server? No. | ||
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G3CKO
Canada1430 Posts
L A N | ||
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NgrySqrrl
Canada36 Posts
On June 25 2011 13:59 G3CKO wrote: Three letters: L A N http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=236350 | ||
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Bango
United States106 Posts
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Exactable
Australia263 Posts
I see nothing wrong with treating the players that make this game what it is like this. Blizzard knows best. | ||
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kochujang
Germany1226 Posts
That Huk cannot play ladder games on his account is a separate issue, and should not be mixed up with the account sharing issue. Yes, it is bad that Huk cannot play games, and Blizzard should fix this as soon as possible. Edit: Final note: That Blizzard called them to warn them beforehand was actually a nice gesture. | ||
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