I want you to imagine how much time it takes for a company to investigate in game player behaviors based on suspicion of collusion taking place in 3rd party chat channels that the company has no access to. That’s all they have to on. They can see the player behavior in game, which amounts to players farming and PvPing. Nothing is outside the realm of what a player should be able to do. To prove the collusion, they have to investigate communication occurring outside of WoW.
Wrap your head around how this issue has to be approached by Blizzard before they can do anything punitive about it.
they can easily pull the discord info from the guilds doing and read the chat logs themselves im sure Blizzard already has the access to such just send a few interns to comb thru the logs and print it out there ya go proof enough players are cheating and by the companies own lack of effort to do so theyre effectively telling those players keep doing it
Can they? They don’t have any authority over discord or anything happening on discord. Discord themselves doesn’t keep a record of guilds using their service. 100% of any links between WoW and discord requires investigation by Blizzard. This isn’t grade school. Blizzard isn’t your home room teacher. They don’t get to take away your recess because you said a bad word to Sally on the way to school.
anyone with the discord info can access and read everything they say on there its public domain on an internet forum its no more a privacy issue than others reading your comments on facebook
as for the legality of it all well they gave up that right the moment they posted the discord info on the WoW program or didnt you notice everything said and typed on WoW is subject to jurisdiction by Blizzard which now includes the info you claim is protected Blizzard didnt force them to disclose it the players put it there themselves its no more illegal than police searching the trash cans on your curb
Judging by your posts, you clearly dropped out of school in the fifth grade, so I’ll type slowly and use small words so you can understand.
Each discord server is a private forum that you have to be invited into. Entering that server under false pretenses is fraud and an invasion of privacy. Every member of each server could then sue Blizzard, since Blizzard has no legal right or permission to access those servers.
Also, this isn’t the police searching the trash cans at the curb, it is the police searching your garage without a warrant.
I have a screen shot of a horde player in a large guild admitting to colluding with alliance. In fact, this guild claims to have an alt alliance guild on the same server as their main horde guild just for this event.
sadly this isnt a case of hackers its a bunch of players colluding on both factions to ensure they and only those they choose get the right to quest in partake of the event thru constant griefing corspe camping and total zone crontrol in order to make sure no one outside of their groups even gets to do a single thing until the event is over
Blizzard has amazingly been absent and silent the entire time and will most likely lay low until the event is concluded rather than put forth the effort to deal with this serious problem
The ectoplasmic distiller change NEEDED to happen. I don’t understand how people are comparing that to something like diamond flask or even cross-faction collusion during a one-time event. The ectoplasmic distiller was a quest specific item that was generating more threat than the average warrior on any server in classic. A quest item. Rendering the holy trinity role of tanking effectively OBSOLETE. It makes any threat related mechanic on any boss that may require it obsolete. Threat gear would no longer be needed for tanks, just a few stacks of goblin rocket fuel each Tuesday. It is a HORRIFIC game-breaking bug that has infinite potential for abuse.
It is so ludicrous to me that people cannot understand the difference between changing something like that which affects every single raiding guild in classic, versus investigating reports of cross-faction collusion for scarab lord, a one time event that affects maybe 10% of guilds in the game, if that. People complaining about 1:1 HP5 on diamond flask and the snap-shotting also are failing to recognize just how NICHE that is compared to the behavior of the ectoplasmic distiller pre-nerf.
If alliance and horde guilds want to organize a cease-fire on pvp realms and even organize to counter other people from trying to grief their attempt at getting scarab lord, that’s on them and their free to do so. This is absolutely a grey area despite what the ToS may say. We ALL knew this would happen before Classic even launched, due to how broad the range of social media is in today’s world compared to 2005. We didn’t have discord, we didn’t have reddit, we had programs like ventrilo and maybe some privately ran guild websites and forums lol. We definitely didn’t have server discords where the entire server can interact with each other, free of oversight from blizzard themselves. There’s not much in the way they can do to stop this, no matter how much people cry about it.
Now, if those same colluding guilds are abusing an in-game feature like the report a player function, in an attempt to get someone banned or suspended merely because they’re a competitor in attempting to ring the gong, THAT is something that Blizzard absolutely needs to look into and CAN take action against.
oh i agree but my point is Blizzard is quick to react on stuff like that which is often trivial in nature and when an even bigger issue like the collusion occurs theyre nowhere to be found