They banned Mage Tower Account Traders

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As a PVP player, my first thought was “wtf?”

Moral questions about boosting or earning your stuff aside, my Spelltome Mount doesn’t hurt your Spelltome Mount. If I get carried through Mythic Dungeons and Raids, there’s not really a determinantal effect to other players. I’m not saying you shouldn’t be made about PVE boosters. You do whatever you want.

But why are we banning Mage Tower Service-Purchasers and not PVP boosters?

If Blizzard didn’t rank-gate PVP Gear - which is the dumbest idea they’ve had in a very strong field of candidates - this wouldn’t be a problem. No one would care. If Boosting just go you full upgrades faster, those of us who enjoy PVP wouldn’t be upset. We like PVP. We don’t mind playing more.

But the boosters in PVP screw up games for anyone earnestly trying to climb. You can tell when you’re in a match where someone is getting carried, the “whoa wtf was that” factor spikes every few games. Perfectly legal under the current rules.

But if someone asks for help in the Mage Tower, which was a cluster-duck of scaling, balancing, and execution, no we can’t have that.

It’s just so absolutely disappointing. The rules are made by Blizzard, either of these two things could be legal or illegal if they wanted. Their priorities are so bad when it comes to PVP and they don’t even have the spine to explain themselves. They once addressed some of the issues by saying “well it’s mid-season, we can’t change things now.”

Yes you can, and who cares if you did. There’s no honorable activity in this season. Everyone who’s got a 2200+ rating should be viewed with skepticism. I really hope they spend 200% more time both addressing PVP problems in 10.0 and communicating things WAY AHEAD OF WHEN THEY’RE WILLING TO MAKE CHANGES.

Either give the account sharers their Spelltome Mounts back, or remove rank-gated gear in PVP. But this hypocrisy sucks.

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de difference is that pvp boosting doesn’t require acc sharing, it just requires the booster to be really good. whereas mt requires acc sharing, which is a bannable offense.

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As I wrote in the OP…

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Yup Pinar nailed it

Account sharing is bannable

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As I wrote in the OP

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okay but one is against tos, the other isn’t. Therefore, one is allowed to be a thing, and the other isn’t.

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What part of “they make the rules” is hard?

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I just don’t know why they choose to focus on something that hurts zero people, and they don’t focus on something actively ruining some end-game content.

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are you sure it’s ok to admit to that? worried about you possibly getting actioned don’t really care about what you actually did lol.

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I don’t think they care about something that happened several years ago involving the account of someone who no longer plays the game.

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bruh delet this.

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Yeah they do make the rules. Abide by them or get yeeted for not. Whats hard about that?

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i mean… i’m just saying I’ve seen people get suspensions for admitting to rule breaks before that’s why I asked…be careful mate.

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Blizzard isn’t just sitting there examining these specific 2 rules and fiercely comparing them to each other

If you have pvp boosting issues that’s fine, but linking it to account sharing bans is a mistake

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It would be great optics for them to ban me for helping someone with multiple sclerosis get a skin in a video game five years ago lol

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Bye cheaters :slight_smile:

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I’m more astonished that people are bold enough to give people their account information to do that.

How do you trust anyone like that, I’d be way too suspicious to even try that.

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That’s just plain wrong. People have been account sharing for glad carries for ages now.

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It is the stupidest thing you can do with your account tbh.

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I think that pvp boosting for gear is way less of a problem than you make it out to be. PvP prices were very expensive last I checked (before the community ban), and it’s probably only gone up.