EPTBlizzard warns HuK/TLO for account sharing - Page 9
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cYaN
Norway3322 Posts
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Jiddra
Sweden2685 Posts
On June 25 2011 02:38 blizzind wrote: Also, blizzcon qualifiers will most likely be decided by ladder ranking. How much drama will there be if people who didn't level their accounts were invited? I actually expect there to be some drama around the time of qualifiers. Blizzard has a crazy way of detecting any shenanigans from their database so expect some bans. So the best solution is letting Huk stream him waiting to ladder, while the bonus pool builds up so he is dropped from GM.  | ||
Liquid`EliGE
United States527 Posts
On June 25 2011 02:31 DarkPlasmaBall wrote: A business (read as: primary job = make money) is enforcing their Terms of Service agreement (which we had to accept and agree to follow) so that they don't lose money. And if they enforced it on some random little bronze noobie, it wouldn't get any attention. If they enforced it on big-name players, however, it might actually make headlines (or a TL thread) and make other people think twice about breaking the rules. While we may not like it because we love HuK and TLO, I can certainly see why Blizzard would choose to do what they did. Yea this guy basically said it all. If Blizzard wants people to follow their rules from the TOS, then they have to do it on people that we all know and love so we don't make the mistake ourselves to receive the consequences. It is kind of stupid though lol. | ||
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Fdragon
United States96 Posts
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States43759 Posts
On June 25 2011 02:36 stevarius wrote: I like how you're implying that making an example out of a pro player would curb the account sharing of other players. It won't and it's laughable to even attempt to do so. Let's not even get on the subject of one of the parties being in possession of a BROKEN product. If you're going to play the game of warning professional players using the accounts of others, you have to do it to all of them that are in plain view or not at all. A business can't be selectively picking them out as it seems to be in this case. Why won't it? Why is it laughable and so easily dismissable? I agree with you that Blizzard should be consistent. | ||
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tsuxiit
1305 Posts
edit: If they're trying to preserve the integrity of their ladder for the BlizzCon tournament, why don't they start by BANNING THE DROPHACKERS THAT GET TO #1 GM AND FARM WINS FROM TOP PLAYERS. That Pillage guy who was 69-0 from drop hacks? He still isn't banned. He just dropped from GM for inactivity. THAT is what's fucking pathetic about this situation. | ||
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Froadac
United States6733 Posts
On June 25 2011 00:46 Jyvblamo wrote: I'm still trying to figure out where pointlessly antagonizing fans fits into Blizzard's business strategy. Yeah. I guess they're trying to be consistent, but to be honest they are just antagonizing those who they need not. | ||
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Leporello
United States2845 Posts
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Soleron
United Kingdom1324 Posts
Why is this? Traffic should be able to go from one copy to another, and then people would pay Blizz for the copy of SC2 and be divorced from obligation forever (can do what they want with their paid copy). Why is traffic routed through Blizzard's servers rather than between players' copies? | ||
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0neder
United States3733 Posts
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Jakkerr
Netherlands2549 Posts
srry but this is ridiculous -.- They should give proplayers a free account when they are playing on another server like League of Legends(yes LoL is free but they get a maxed out account with everything unlocked :p) does. This costs them maybe 2000-3000dollars which is nothing for them. | ||
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Petshop
Canada73 Posts
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Toadvine
Poland2234 Posts
One thing I find interesting is how schizophrenic their stance on their own ladder is. On one hand, they're fine with ladder maps being imbalanced and stupid, just for variety's sake; on the other, they want to use the GM league as a means of securing invites for tournaments, and institute all these rules for the sake of "ladder integrity". In all honesty, it seems like such a shitty move, forcing programing teams to buy so many separate copies of SC2, considering how much free advertising they get from competitive play. I can sort of understand the lack of LAN, but the region-lock just seems like such small-minded greed. :/ | ||
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karpo
Sweden1998 Posts
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Vardant
Czech Republic620 Posts
On June 25 2011 02:38 Bozotclown wrote: So blizzard asked that they didn't stream account sharing? How is that not fine? Huk has an EU account for the tourney custom games so all this bitching about region locked accounts is totally off topic. The thread title should be changed, it's sensationalist. He couldn't ladder on his own account, because it was searching hours for an opponent, making it useless. What option do you actually have in this case? Guest account doesn't help, so if you want to warm up, you have to borrow another one from somebody else. People also mentioned, that there was some issue with joining a custom game. Blizzard not only could have, but should have handled this properly. Threatening to ban is just silly. ToS is not enforceable in EU anyway AFAIK. I can't shake this feeling, that there were alterior motives behind this. Maybe Blizzard has problem with the tournament altogether? Cause I'm pretty sure HuK was streaming his ladder play on TLO's account before. | ||
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DeepBlu2
United States975 Posts
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splinter9
Canada172 Posts
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Slovakia1320 Posts
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United States140 Posts
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