Selling boosts for money is specifically against the rules, do you need me to link it to you honey?
Here I’ll link it for you. Policy change here:
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wo...y-2022/1176836
And here is their rules for real money services
https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/269874
Any questions?
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I'm all for making boosting more difficult, but I question the inclusion of multiboxers in the argument as a gameplay style Blizzard doesn't appreciate. Some players really don't like multiboxers and have had a misperception for years that it's somehow bannable, but Blizzard has been quite clear that it's allowed and not against the EULA. It's odd that this argument tries to mix an activity that is against EULA (boosting) with one that is not (multiboxing). So although it's not my cup of tea, it's unfortunate if this makes multiboxing more difficult for gamers that do it legitimately and enjoy that playstyle. This was recently updated by Blizzard as well, so there is no question on their stance:
https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/24258
I know you said that, and you’re wrong. Per what I already told you.
I don’t care about the topic that much. I care about slimy people like you trying to save face and not accept that what you said was just BS. Instead you squirm around to attempt to sound like you were at least partly correct.
You aren’t. You’re wrong. Accept it.
Buddy, it is. It fucking clearly is. What topic do you think you’re in right now? A topic that is discussing whether or not these discords should be banned? No you are in a topic that is talking about why these discords got banned and they got banned for the activities they were doing in world of Warcraft. You can argue all day and say “IN MY OPINION ITS NOT ACTUALLY CHEATING”, and that’s adorable and all, but that doesn’t change the fact that blizzard and discord clearly thinks differently and your opinion doesn’t change the reality of that.
I'm not wrong, you're making up some imaginary situation where I said something that I didn't (again proven by what is written). the guy I quoted at first said blizzard can act against ANY websites. this was wrong. I then commented.
you came at first convinced about that reality when in fact it wasn't the case...anyway.
MMO titles generally have ways to convert game currencies into something that can be bought with real money and vice versa. Blizz did not create anything that never existed before. They allowed people who bought gold illegally and unsafely to do so safely. Boosts are very likely a small part of the token economy since I firmly believe that most people buy gold from Blizzard to have some extra gold around. How they use it is their business.
You're making the same error that governments make about drugs: If drugs are a problem go after those that are pushing the drug/sales (guilds), not those who are users.
"...money's most powerful ability is to allow bad people to continue doing bad things at the expense of those who don't have it."
You don't define the rules of what is or is not a cheat, the developer does. They don't want you going to an outside something to buy something ingame, they want the whole process to happen ingame.
But what you're missing is that these "communities" are companies that sell the gold they gain to gold buyers for real money.
They can act against any website. I already explained to you how they can. What in the actual fuck aren’t you understanding? They can find out who they are and sue them if they wanted to.
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It’s clearly fucking not allowed and it is clearly cheating. Are you so dense that when blizzard themselves write in their rules “boosting with RMT is not allowed ”, you think it’s a smart thing to say “but boosting is allowed”. And also seeing discord specifically ban someone and say “you’re banned for cheating” you think it’s smart to say “they aren’t cheating”.
How absolutely brain dead do you have to be in order to ignore the people who are literally making the rules and saying that they have their own rules wrong.
Not really. People don't boost just because they aren't having fun or the game isn't engaging. They simply boost because they want to. People love to ascribe stuff to whatever thing they don't like about the current game instead of just being honest. Boosting happens because people want to do it and no amount of "fun and engaging" game design will stop it. Not to mention how nebulous fun and engaging is because it varies per person.
"Man is his own star. His acts are his angels, good or ill, While his fatal shadows walk silently beside him."-Rhyme of the Primeval Paradine AFC 54
You know a community is bad when moderators lock a thread because "...this isnt the place to talk about it either seeing as it will get trolled..."
The rule is a bit more complicated. But feel free to dumb it down.
You don't know? It doesn't matter? Why did you bring it up?
I think it clearly demonstrates what you contributed to this discussion.
I will repeat it again. Blizzards EULA defines it as cheating (same does a lot of dictionaries) - and somehow without any argumentation or additional info you say it's not
Combined with RMT it's against Discords rules. It's not a new rule - and public statistics from Discord show it's a rule they have enforced for a long time.
These community Discords did NOT get banned because:
- They were offering boosting services.
- They were cheating.
These were banned BECAUSE:
- They were offering escrow services (i.e. organizing cross-realm boosts, specifically, transferring gold from buyers to boosters between realms)
Hope this helped.
It does mean it is cheating. You are just narrowing the definition to include or exclude the stuff you want to define it as. Discord doesn't have a specific definition so any general definition works and "against rules" or what another company defines as "against rules" would certainly fit. Boosting also fits the definition for Cheating Blizzard has in their own EULA.
It would also be covered under the prohibited commercial use as well. There is a reason why companies often have general or vague "anti-cheat" sections. It allows them to have a broad umbrella to take action against things they don't like regardless of semantics that some people argue about a "true" meaning of cheating.Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
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"Man is his own star. His acts are his angels, good or ill, While his fatal shadows walk silently beside him."-Rhyme of the Primeval Paradine AFC 54
You know a community is bad when moderators lock a thread because "...this isnt the place to talk about it either seeing as it will get trolled..."