The priest was camping the orb when the streamer got summoned in. He rezzed when the summon popped and got one cast off.
The streamer didn’t have his screen for the char that was being summoned up. The only way that he could have been sniped was for timing, not location.
It wasn’t sniping, this priest does this for hours every day. A streamer just happened to get caught up in it then went to a GM in his chat.
The priest was banned 5 minutes after that happened in the stream chat.
Time stamp is at 3:19:30 for the dispell, 3:20:30 for the call for a ban.
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Ok so here’s the thing, there’s no way for this streamer to know for sure if he was specifically targeted. If the priest spends 50% of his time dispelling people, it is plausible that it was just a timing thing. This guy doesn’t have that many viewers, and he wasn’t even showing his other game where he actually lost the buffs on. So I find it very unlikely that he was being specifically targeted.
Furthermore, is there any proof that guy is actually a GM and he actually banned the priest? I watched for a few mins after the timestamp and didn’t really see anything that led me to believe either of those cases.
Other streamers, with a lot more pull at Blizzard HQ, haven’t been able to get people banned like that, so it seems very questionable to me.
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Soft player base
Soft devs
Gaming in 2020 = too many butthurt normies around
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If you check Arleus’ video where he discusses getting unbanned he shows chat logs with him talking to a GM. In that log there is a point where the GM decides to unban him and specifically says “Lord_Viho is the GM”.
Not absolutely concrete evidence, but enough to make it pretty damning. The same name of the person specified as a GM by a confirmed Blizzard representative shows up in twitch chat with a sub asking for the name of the priest who gets banned within 5 minutes of being given the name.
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We don’t know if this is actually indicative of Blizzard protocol or policy or this was just one GM who was watching this streamer and just did his own thing.
Bans like this won’t hold up anyways because the priest could easily just appeal it and the person handling the appeal would have a lot of reasonable doubt about the ban.
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“Streaming” can now be used as a defense against any form of PvP now I guess. If you feel bad you get to just claim they were targeting you specifically.
Fact-of-the-matter is that streaming is a choice. Streaming LIVE is also a choice. Its the same reason why stream-sniping another player on the Starcraft ladder is fine…because the streamer is willfully and knowingly broadcasting his location.
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I haven’t seen this video, and I don’t really care to look for it, so I’ll take your word for it that it exists and unfolds s how you described it here.
If that is the case, then this GM should absolutely be looked into. I have seen many streamers talk to GMs on stream, and while the GMs admitted to watching, they have not once seen a identified themselves in chat. To do so would be incredibly unprofessional.
Regardless, I’m still skeptical that the priest was actually banned, because it just seems that ridiculous to me. I know that blizzard moderation can change slightly from GM to GM, but this instance, if true, seems like a huge outlier.
Fake news post. Nobody got banned for dispelling.
he 100% got banned…he runs the bigglesworth discord server, it’s all they are talking about right now.
he’s 100% banned…not just on one character but all accounts associated with his IP, i play on the server and i know the person who got banned, he runs the bigglesworth discord.
he actually didn’t even have the screen open that he was dispelled on…if you watch his stream all you can see is his mage farming ZF…so this wasn’t even stream sniping.
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How much do you think 1 hunter bot could make in DMT?
10k in a month?
Then it was just a streamer asking a GM to ban a dude who had dispelled him because he felt targeted. lol. That makes the streamers case even weaker.
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It’s not a ban worthy. Even said player spent 6 months doing it. That how said person plays the game.
Not my style of play. I would open ticket and report GM.
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agreed…but blizzard customer service is a joke, this same server will get you chat muted simply if they don’t like you or “for the lulz” and blizzard wont do anything. the right click report mafia is a thing on biggles…there is no justice in wow anymore…just privilege and greed.
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That’s like a celebrity saying “I’m going to be at the Starbucks on [insert street and cross street here] but don’t anyone come by” and actually expecting people to not show up.
They kinda ask for that sort of thing by the very nature of streaming.
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Blizzard doesn’t refer to anything external to WoW when it comes to bans. How can they prove that the dispeller was even watching the stream – how can they actually prove that? They investigate internally to make their decisions. This case here is an anomaly and is unjust.
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The streamer should be banned and the GM should be fired.
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lots of people saying its griefing to use a stream to target someone. Yeah maybe, except the streamer is explicitly not showing his warrior on stream to avoid stream sniping. This priest is just playing the game as it was designed and the streamer got him banned because he was pissed off
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