Your participation in the game is under the expectation that you’ve already read and understood the ToS. Thats all the social contract is, just a reformatting and rewording of the ToS you’ve already agreed to.
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Sadly it looks like Blizzard has taken a stance that IC = OOC. They won’t differentiate between the two.
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I kinda just dropped city rp, I’d rather guild rp
I will continue to Roleplay in public forums, and likely my guild will too.
I definitely understand the concern presented in this forum; and will drop the same 2 cents here that I will shared with my own guild on the topic - use common sense.
As many others here said nothing really changed; except that there is this over-whelming (sometimes) cancel culture mixed with an overwhelmingly insensitive one. These two social waves have been crashing for a long time.
- Don’t be a jerk to people.
- Assume anything being read could be read by a child, this is a fantasy game and yes children play it
- If your Roleplay doesn’t mix well with one of the above, take it to private whispers, private third party chats, or find a different outlet for that … desire.
We can play nice and roleplay in public without being so fearful - and at the same time shame on anyone who is trigger happy with a ban button. I hope the GMs continue to monitor the situation and will act accordingly on a case by case basis if someone obviously abuses the automated systems.
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Simple, one is a legal document that tells people expressively what there game is about and you must agree to all the terms and services that’s covering Activisions rear and has been in use and thoroughly looked over by courts and lawyers and the like and the other one isn’t, has no legal standing nor actual wording and is technically speaking plainly towards the player. So my question still stands ‘Why is the social contract needed when the ToS is more appropriate and has more grounds in covering rears in legal terms and much of the sphel can be incorporated into the ToS?’ All of it reads as a blog post or something WowHead would post as a intermediary to explain Blizzards new ToS. This isn’t all directed at you mind, just in general because I keep seeing the term ‘This is the same as the ToS’ or similar wording.
Well the game is rated T for teen and the minimal required age for playing this game is 13 so good on you there but in technicality the Online chat isn’t covered by the ESRB so its up in the air but usually when starting a new chariter the chat filters and etc are already up by default and some accounts can have parental monitors on it to make sure little jimmy or susan arn’t seeing stuff they arn’t supposed to see. Dosen’t cover naked pixels but eh, its better than most. Your right overall but the other side needs to monitor what they see as well. -nod-