Exactly, now you got it. People are unhappy that Blizzard is not impartial when enforcing the ToS.
The fact that soda brings people to the game is immaterial to someone like me. I can understand Blizzard’s motivations and still be unhappy with them.
I dont know about that i think people would respect blizzard more if they did punish him
While Blizzard technically reserves the right to act however they see fit in response to a TOS violation, it’s rather obnoxious that certain individuals get preferential treatment based on their status within the community. This isn’t a real life court of justice, but it still feels irksome and unfair, and I’d wager most reasonable people would agree that for the sake of the game’s integrity, rules should be impartially and evenly enforced irrespective of who is committing a given infraction. Anything less feels like a “rules for thee and not for me” situation.
Yep, Blizzard is seen as a clown show in large part because of things like this.
There are other video games out there that can be streamed and provide a sustainable income.
This is probably the goofiest thing ive ever seen somebody post. Buying gold impacts the entire servers prices on everything, floods the server with bots and makes the game harder for anyone earning gold legitimately.
Nobody gives a sh** if you dont have time to farm gold. I dont have time either but im not going to ruin other players experiences because i made my career choice. Stop picking up that mcdonalds overtime lil bro, if thats the way you think i know you arent working somewhere important
Wrong, goofy. The first offense is a 3 day ban and all your gold taken. I bought gold in TBC classic. Got a 3 day ban, all my gold removed(even my legitimate gold) and everything i bought was gone too.
Ive had friends buy gold in era, tbc classic and wrath classic. All 3 day bans. The 2nd time you do it, its 14 days.
100s of thousands of people like Sodapoppin and watch him. These fans are likely heavily into wow classic, play often and even just to be able to interact with him in game.
There is almost certainly a lot less of the people who are going to care about if they ban him or not, let alone have the integrity to determine if they play the game or not if he gets banned.
It is 100% a negative for Blizzard to ban him unfortunately.
Angry dwarf confirmed!!
Could’ve worded it so much more professionally.
Imagine trying to shame someone for working.
Looooool!
Imagine holding up Bobby as an example.
I’m sure you were calm and measured.
Who cares it’s just words lol
The people who reported him.
Blizzard.
And, judging by how much he’s complaining, Throwinhands.
Everyone you described sound like dweebs lol
So stream some other game then lmao? Nah. I don’t buy it.
Very simple answer:
Because that streamer and the others in his guild are doing more to bring players to WoW than any PR Blizz has done in years.
It isn’t fair, but it IS sensible, from Blizz’s perspective.
What I don’t get is how this game has become a place of censorship and gold buying being allowed 100% 14 day ban? Buying gold should a perma irreversible Ban. What’s the point of playing this game then? Who cares none of your work means anything because you can just pay people to have everything someone else does. Very impressive gear you got via cash.
If this is how this game is basically anticipated to exist- why does this game exist at all? Kek. I don’t understand why Blizz would allow any of this- if this is the way Blizz intends to make money offa this game why even play it- we should all stop and force them to make something new or to at least make the game not convert cash to anything in the game you want.
Sad. Very sad.
sodas peek viewership isnt even remotely close to 100k lol
normal days he has 2k people watching.
I am just big on things like this. People are getting half month bans for buying gold and soda gets his gold removed and couple days later he has a plethora of gold again.
Hmmmmmmmmmm
I think some unknowing intern accidentally took gold from soda without realizing who he was. I honestly believe this. They probably contacted him and said, “um our bad new guy wasn’t supposed to take your gold”…
They probably told him to make a short vod saying he got caught and returned his gold a few days later.
There’s more to streamers than concurrent viewership mate. There’s also a cool thing called youtube which his highest viewed video has 5.8M, and his channel has 1.12M subscribers. 100s of thousands would actually be considered an understatement.