I cant say I’m an expert on all of the fine details of the Terms of Service, but I’m fairly positive that advertising, especially RMT services like boosting and gold buying, is against the ToS. Same with multiboxing and a few other things I see violated every time I play the game.
One character in specific has been advertising boosting and gold selling on the anniversary HC server for over a week. Despite so many of us reporting this person, repeatedly, it seems Blizzard has done nothing. Their messages appear every single time I go into a major city, whether it be noon or 3 in the morning.
Is Blizzard so desperate for subs that they will intentionally let people violate their ToS if it means they end up with more total subs, and therefore profit, in the end? What is going on here, and what can we as a community do to put more pressure on Blizzard to actually police these rules?
Yeah, Blizzard doesn’t do anything about their ToS. They probably want as many people as they can to quit anything classic related so they can say retail does better.
Pretty sure they’re talking about the RMT service that is advertising spam trade for gold for real money, and boosting (probably account sharing power level but who knows).
Multiboxing is permitted but it has been limited over the years, no special software, and I think some hardware is banned too. Been a while since that change happened.
So your wasting your time worrying and stressing out over advertiser accounts, just like it would be waste of Blizzards time to track them down, the reason is these accounts are all just dummy accounts, in no way are they related to any account used to farm gold, hold gold, or transfer gold. This means even if you get them banned today, they will be right back there tomorrow. Its actually worse if you ban then, because if they continue using the same account they are easy to ignore, if you ban them they will just pop back with a new account that you will have to ignore again.
Your best bet if it really bothers you is to download an add-on like badboy, and most if not all the RMT spam should go away, though it wont really impact boosting spam, but that should all be in the services channel, and you can easily leave that.
Yes, this isn’t a great answer, but sometimes there isn’t a good solution to the problem.
Multiboxing is not against TOS.
Mutiboxing with Isboxer is not against TOS.
Multiboxing using input broadcasting whether through isboxer or another program IS against TOS.
Boosting for gold not against TOS.
Boosting for real money IS against TOS.
Advertising services that is against TOS IS against TOS.
Buying gold through RMT is against TOS.
Now you know which items you are correct on and incorrect on. Have a good day!
If we REALLY want to fix this, people should start advertising explicit services like their OFs. Do this enough and it’ll get the attention of Congress and they’ll get hit hard like Craigslist.
I saw some poster in a different thread say they started filling complaints with the BBB attempting to get Activision/Microsoft recognized officially for violating their own TOS with subscribers. This kind of thing seems to have potential to apply real pressure if enough people replicate.
hell, there is a whole guild that auto invites you as soon as u make an ally toon on Nightslayer and it still exists that has it right in there notes about selling gold