After a long hiatus from Standard, I recently got pulled back into playing the format— going to Legend on three different accounts last month and once more this month.
But four times, I have encountered and loss to Shaffer Rogue, a combo deck that appears to be one of those toxic solitaire decks, which many decks will be helpless to counter.
Now, this might be premature overreaction, but playing against Shaffer Rogue bothered me enough that it just chased me out of Standard, and the experience has me pondering if The Bazar, a game designed by Reynard and hyped by Kripp, will be a better game than HS.
I’m not sure if it violates the TOS myself, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it does, because the company obviously put that free stuff there for genuinely new players who are not playing the game so I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a clause to not get those advantages if you already play and you already got them.
Without reading the TOS (because who does that, honestly?), I suspect that there is a TOS clause that gives Blizzard the option to action someone exploiting multiple accounts in some way, but that it’s rarely if ever enforced. Accounts can’t exchange or gift resources to one another. And many extremely popular streamers play on multiple accounts or in multiple regions
Streamers aren’t proof, and streamers often walk a fine line and their mentors often tell them “to be noticed as an internet celebrity you have to walk a line between legality and illegality”.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Blizzard doesn’t ban them BECAUSE they are minor celebrities and not the other way around.
You don’t have to have multiple accounts to play in different regions
Usually streamers and hardcore players just switch between regions:
Open Battle.net
Above Play, you have Hearthstone and an icon of a globe, click on the globe icon
choose between America, Europe and Asia
Ofc, you don’t share your cards and stuff between the regions, so you start all over again on each one
EDIT: It’s also possible to play on 2 of them at the same time. There’s an option in battle.net “allow two or more instances of battle.net opened at the same time” or something along those lines. Now you just need a virtual PC installed and you’re good to go
There was a time when the ToS used to limit players to 3 Bnet accounts, but they later did away with that restriction.
Even with three different HS accounts, if you use them to play on all three servers, then that’s 9 different collections that a player has to play on. My oldest nine collections go back to 2014 when the ToS limited accounts.
