Hi everyone,
I’m developing a multiplayer trivia game and I’m interested in using the Blizzard API to include questions about Blizzard’s games. I’ve read through the API policies, but I have a couple of questions that I hope someone can help clarify:
- The policy states that applications must benefit the Blizzard player community. What exactly does “benefit the community” mean in this context?
- The policy also mentions that the Blizzard Developer APIs or data may not be used for marketing or monetization purposes. In the future, my app may include advertisements or premium content. Would this be allowed under the policy?
Thank you for your help!
I think only Blizzard legal department would be able to give you any type of answer here but even they did, it probably be vague so as to not limit their ability in the future if they wanted to take legal action.
My opinion/advice,…
- This seems like a blanket rule they can apply in order to make you prove that your use of their product did in fact benefit the community. If not they make you shut it down
- you seem to want to apply open source rules to their API,… good luck, they likely wont care or bother you if you are making pocket change. Although, depending on how much your trivia game feels like it came from blizzard, they could take issue with not wanting to be associated with certain advertisers.
- I’m not sure what exactly you have in mind with this build but maybe you could use an open source LLM instead, AI generated questions and answers from information freely available on the web wouldn’t violate their intellectual property. Good luck