I read the TOS and boosting is not allowed for real money, nor intentionally dropping rating, to boost others.
Why are streamers allowed to profit off of boosting. They beg for subs in twitch and donations, they make money from the followers and commercials. And they sit in the 1500 to 1800 bracket. They look for people live on stream to intentionally drop their rating just to do it all over again.
In the TOS it clearly states this is not allowed.
Why does this continue? It is terrible for the health of the game.
Blizzard can’t really do anything about things that happen on Twitch. Making money off of Twitch also isn’t against any rules. If they are intentionally throwing matches you would want to right click them and report for cheating, or send an email to hacks@blizzard.com if you can’t find them in game. But mostly things that happen on Twitch aren’t really something that Blizzard is able to police, unfortunately.
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Its pretty toxic that bliz does nothing about this, some streamers even degrade the players they beat live on stream. There are lots of players who would like to learn arena, but they run in to the R1 boosters who make a living playing wow
That would be something you would need to report to Twitch, Blizzard has nothing to do with Twitch and can’t police what happens on the streams. If they are being toxic and using profanity in chat in game than it should be reported, however outside of the game Blizzard has no authority.
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If you know they are charging people real money for boosts, then report them.
That said…
This is not profiting off carries. Being a streamer who gets money for subscriptions to view their stream is not the same as a carry team charging real money for runs.
Even if they explicitly say “Sub to my channel and you will get a boost”, that would be something to take up with Twitch. Blizzard can’t really do anything about what happens on another platform.
Again, taking place outside of the game is not something Blizzard can police.
You not liking something does not equate to Blizzard needing to do something about it. If you think there’s an issue, report it. But just being a streamer who plays World of Warcraft does not equal RMT.
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blizzard could easily implement the de ranking policy. a rogue last season had 10k games. going up and down intentionally.
That said, we do investigate reports of real money trades for services. We have no jurisdiction over third party sites, so can’t really do anything there, but we can use some of the information gleaned from there in our investigation process. It is why we encourage reporting to our hacks team when you suspect violations.
I don’t know how easy that would be, Azuray. You are basically asking us to try to verify if someone is losing games on purpose. That isn’t really feasible.
If you believe someone is throwing a game, report it so it can be looked into. There are right click report options under cheating specifically for that.
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Doesn’t Twitch have some kind of catch all rule about breaking the ToS of games they play?
Blizzard might not care about what streamers do on Twitch but maybe Twitch cares that their streamers are breaking Blizzards ToS? Unlikely but it’s a possible avenue to pursue.
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Thank you for the reply, i know alot of players are sick of the R1 streamers in the 1500 bracket, I have had numerous people quit pvp all together because of it. It was worse in SL, but still bad again now. Bliz should pair people at their highest mmr no matter the bracket, maybe that would help. If their 3s is at 2600 they are obviously not a 1500 2s player…
Thanks again for replying.
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Claiming we don’t care is very much a misnomer, Vitor.
There are limitations on what we can do but we do what we can as we’re able with the tools we have. We’re also constantly working to improve our methods of detection and investigation.
That we’re not able to deal with every situation in the way and time frame that some may wish in no way is an indication that we don’t care or sitting idle.
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