Hey all! and hello blizzard, I have a question as I am seeing more and more of these post to which I will link below. The perfect/ideal response would be from a blue however I will take what I can get if anything draw attention to it. I play wow as you all know since I am posting here lol so I ask;
Is watchdog within the launch/games from activision/blizzard banning ally/ally X? generally from my understanding its picking up a 3rd party software response and banning because of it. That third party is is generally ASCE (armory crate) which allows the user to adjust the TDP/wattage of the device for performance as needed. Here is why I am asking:
I do play world of warcraft on this device and Do not wish to get a ban, This is a handheld windows pc fully capable of running the game at high framerates while on the go as seen here:
youtube(dot)com/watch?v=rqSjF-FGIQI
Anyone able to shed any type of light or at least get this post into the blues eyes to maybe get some awareness on the situation?
P.s. I had to put (dot)com so please remove the (dot) and put a . lol Thank you to all that read this or tried to make sense of it.
I have never heard anything about WOW players being banned for using portable PC’s. I know people who have been playing on Steam decks without issue. I would take anything you read on reddit with a truckload of salt. Most people that get banned and go to reddit generally did something to get banned, but instead they like to make up stories about how it was something else.
Yea I am going to but I figured if anyone had actually known someone to get a ban with this device or the legion Go they would hopefully find this post and add to it.
This is not something that Blizzard will ever give an answer to, and certainly not in the Customer Support Forum. That would be a question for the developers, and CS has no involvement with those decisions.
That said, unless the Ally’s OS has some inherent process running, Blizzard does not ban any certain system/PC/OS/company/handheld/etc from being used. It’s more about the actions those entities can perform. For example, the “cloud-based gaming” situation from a few years ago (which I think will be removed soon, if it hasn’t been already) doesn’t ban specific handhelds. It’s banning an action that any PC can do, and thus, be modified to not do that action.
First off, never ever immediately believe what people post on YT/Reddit/etc. There is no standard for proof on other sites, and these videos often stretch the truth (or flat out lie) or at the very least, misinterpret what they are looking at. Bans generally don’t happen because of what you were doing right that second. It’s usually takes time to investigate and then plan a ban wave. You don’t know what this person was doing when they weren’t filming the video.
Second, they are talking about Call of Duty. While there are general rules for all Blizzard/Activision games, each specific games have their own set of issues. What happens during a CoD game is much different than what happens to World of Warcraft, if only because the effects of those actions are much different.
In the end, handheld gaming, cloud-based gaming, etc is a relatively new innovation. The rules are going to nebulous, and quite likely to evolve and change. What may not be allowed now might be allowed in the future, but more importantly, the reverse: what may be allowed today can be banned tomorrow, which is why Blizzard is not likely to give any kind of confirmation one way of the other.
Yea Blizzard still does ban for Cloud Based - except for the authorised GForce Now which is explicitely mentioned with the merger with Microsoft and so on.
I’ve not heard them banning for things like the Steam deck either. They technically could, but I saw nothing so far that implied or referenced something happening like that yet.
They’d really have no reason to with the Steam deck. It’s basically just a laptop without a keyboard in a smaller form factor. It runs the game locally exactly the same way my laptop does.
That said, the controller software that the Steam deck uses could very easily be used in a way that would violate the ToU, the same as any keyboard/mouse software also could.
Yea I always take it with a grain of salt, But after numerous post it does make you start to wonder if there is something to it. I can understand the cloud based gaming aspect causing red flags to go up however when a game is installed locally on what essentially is a laptop if the reports are true I would not understand it at that point.
I play from my laptop at work all the time (tethered to my cellphone, which sometimes shows in a different state than my home location even though it’s only a couple miles away). I’ve never had any account actions or even so much as a security lock.