It’s not random. The argument that there’s no ongoing proceeding, and therefore no alternate interpretation is conjecture.
I dont know what case you are referencing. But it sounds like someone was selling a botting service that either directly or indirectly used Blizzard’s IP, regardless of if they “copied” it in some way.
In case you haven’t noticed, you can’t use other people’s IP as if it’s your own.
If I made a game that looked an awful lot like Sylvanas, and called it Mylvanas, and she was a power-ranger general of Milvermoon fighting against Marthas the Mich King, and sold it for a lot of money, Blizzard might be inclined to at least look at what is going on.
Activision-Blizzard makes several billion dollars a year. They don’t care about the piddly income from multiboxers. Especially when they ban way more people for actually cheating.
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The software is allowed, i.e. ISBoxer. Multiboxing wouldn’t be possible without it (unless you literally run multiple systems (or virtual machines) at once and they are all controlled by one keyboard/mouse). The only software that Blizzard doesn’t allow is automated software where the end user doesn’t even push a single button to do actions in game (i.e. botting). Multiboxing software on the otherhand, every action the multiboxer makes is triggered by the end user pressing a key, whether if that’s casting a spell, or simply making every character follow eachother or target a specific thing, it’s all triggered through a real keypress or click.
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Your monitor, headphones, and usb hub don’t require any software other than what comes with windows. Graphics card drivers are explicitly authorized. Other things may be questionable.
Actually, this is false.
In Sept 2019, a court in Paris ruled against Valve, deeming the resale of digital games on Steam to be lawful.
Valve will probably appeal it and it may go the other way, but at least in the EU, at least for now, you own digital games.
UFC-Que Choisir vs Valve
They’ve never said it must be hardware-only.
My MMO mouse with over a dozen buttons “changes and facilitates” my gameplay. But it’s not banned because they’re not talking about that level of facilitation and you know it. You’re expanding the definition well beyond common sense.
Entire seconds of EULAs can be thrown out in court and deemed unenforceable, even if they were agreed to by the user.
They care about the fact that it adds to account number figures, something which they can boast about during the quarterly shareholder conference calls.
Also banning people for cheating is actually profitable believe it or not and benefits blizzard heavily as the average person (especially gold sellers) end up making a new account… so that’s another purchased game key ($) and sub ($) and extra digit to add to account number figures to show off to shareholders.
Actually, this is a slightly different issue.
Steam does not own the games it sells by and large, it sells licenses, big different when comparing it to WoW.
With Activision Blizzard, you would be dealing directly with the owner of said product, not a 3rd party.
So again, your earlier point, is false.
This only works for Steams case because Steam is a licensed distributor for games not the owner, similar to GoG and is more susceptible to lawsuits because they do not own those products.
None of those things facilitate or change gameplay.
Which is exactly what Blizzard claims to have sold you. It’s not different.
The nuance is what the license says, and I guarantee we’ll find out in a few years whether that nuance matters.
Incidentally, it’s also precedent that the license has value. Therefore, cancelling it with no refund would be illegal if you asked that specific court.
that’s what we cant seem to get thru the OPs head Blizzard not only allows MBing they even link websites for learning to do it properly so by extension Blizz is condoning “cheating” as he puts it since they are in fact providing those weblinks
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You want to ignore the badly worded EULA and pretend it doesn’t mean what it says. I am not taking anything to extremes. The lawyers who drafted that document took it to the extreme.
They don’t talk about account numbers anymore. There’s a reason we don’t know precisely how many people are playing.
They could ban multiboxing tomorrow, release a cute pet on the store, and end up with even more money.
Which software? Where?
That’s all you’ve been doing. You’ve ridden that one trick pony so hard it’s about to collapse.
my man, you don’t own the game even if you have a physical CD either. The CD is just a means to download the software to your computer, you pay for a license to use the software. You don’t own it either way. It’s always been like this, it’s just not as easy as it used to be to run a key generator as it was ‘back in the day’.
Source?..
The same way they’ve authorized browsers. They don’t have some master list of which browsers you can or can’t use. Not to mention, they’ve never stated that multiboxing must be hardware-only. You’d think they would have done that with all the times they’ve said that multiboxing is allowed.