Your guild is going to pay somebody $200 a month to help you guys progress? So... you're all going to pay someone real money, to help you in a video game.
Where do I begin? I don't know if it's against the rules, it probably is, and I'm not telling you, or your guild how to spend your money. But Goddamn it man, you put that online and you're asking for the criticism.
Does your guild and yourself have no pride as gamers? You don't think you can improve to progress on your own merit?
Money must REALLY come easy to you and your guild mates. Talk about disposable income and first world problems.
If it is against Blizzard's rules, you think going on social media (a message forum) and bringing this to light is a good idea when you could have just done it and none would have been the wiser? Who would have told anyone?
never estimate a wow players desire to absolutely not play wow....including paying someone $200 so they don't have to play wow...
It's not against the rules. Every top guild pays their best members a lot of money and sponsors are paying a lot of money to guild leaders. $200/month of course is very tiny amount, I think that truly exceptional player will demand at least $20k/month, but that's not my business.
It's an in-game service in exchange for payment.
The fact it isn't account boosting or power leveling doesn't matter. Their Eula isn't an exhaustive list of the things you can't do. It's a description of the types of things you can't do, with some examples of the more common things that people might try.
For example if a store tells you that shoplifters will be prosecuted and that any items found in your bag or clothes upon exiting the store will be deemed to be stolen, and you then hide an item in your hair, it's doesn't mean you weren't shoplifting.
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Seriously, you have to ask?
If the differences aren't obviously apparent to you I am doubtful that any amount of explaining on my part will help....
No, really, just because there may be some minor similarity between the two, there is no equivalence between paying a stranger to help you achieve things in WoW and supporting a dependent. That's like trying to argue that sea must be made of air since it blue like the sky
The amount of money shouldnt matter. It being 13x more than a sub cost is irrelevant, IF its against the rules. If they decided to pay for his sub instead, according to you people, thatd be against the eula.
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Paying someone to be in your guild doesnt sound like a service.
Except he's not talking about paying someone to simply join a guild. The person would be paid specifically for being a "carry raider". That's very clearly a service rendered for the guild.
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Not the same thing. Even though there may be some similarities it's still a false equivalence.
Being sponsored to play in return for endorsing your sponsor is a very different thing to be paid to perform specific tasks for another player (or even group of players).
Also, I suspect that any kind of sponsorship would require Blizzard's permission to fall within the Eula
If you can buy gold with cash, then no.
But, Blizzard says it's not ok because if you're going to launder money, they want a cut of that action.
Think about it.
Not against TOS method, limit, and other high end guilds already do this. You're being paid for your time to play the game. In contrast to paying money for virtual items which is against TOS. Several guilds historically have done this all the way back to Burning Crusade such as afterlife the guild that was ran by thott who made thottbot which is now owned by wowhead paid his guilds raid leader.
No, it's clear that they're talking about paying him to raid. Joining the guild is incidental. Read the OP:
If it isn't obviously apparent from the OP, and his numerous responses in the thread, that the money is for the guy to effectively boost the guild, then I am not sure anyone can really help you out here.
But sure, if they were just giving him $200 a month to be a member of the guild and all he did was arbed around, then I can't see Blizzard taking an issue.
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The "specific task" in this case is "be good." What exactly do you think a "carry raider" does?
He'd be paying somebody to join the guild and be an amazing raider. It's no different than Method paying their players to be really good. Every raider in Method is a "carry raider." It is not at all false equivalence.