MusicDemon
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Hello,
For those who do not know me: I am MusicDemon. .Net Programmer and working on Warcraft IV - EoE.
A few weeks/months ago, I had a chat with a Blizzard/Battle.net/WoW representative about the rights/restrictions on hosting private server(s) and using bots.
While reading some of the classic Battle.net pages I found the following piece:
I found this really against to what I was "learned" so, I checked it on the TOU on the classic page, it said the following:
Yet, for the third time, I read the new Battle.net TOU page, it said:
I suppose that, if a Blizzard Representative sees this, their comment would be:
This, however, explains why Blizzard started that massive ban attack on +/-3000 CdKeys of all clients after the launch of their new website. Still, if you would put a representative for one day (actively) on bot spotting (even for Custom Games) then I'd think they'd catch 25% of the "bot plague".
Going back to what this representative said, as I interpreted it:
First sentence: People may host private server, but be warned: they can change your computer.
Second sentence: That doesn't mean that YOU have the right to do it! Only our friends and us!
Fourth sentence: But, IF YOU DON'T TRUST ME, CHECK IT YOURSELF!
To go even further into this "weird" ongoing of Blizzard's changes.
There are several big servers (Between 4000-1200 users) and yet, they don't close them! Why? My thoughts on it are:
1. Keep an eye on the big ones, small ones will die soon.
2. The more there are, the less we can control it.
Just a small political question: Is Blizzard "helping" their own TOU/TOS into vain? As I understood, Blizzard had only sent an official warning once! To a server that wasn't even big. (Which, however, had a restart soon after.)
Blizzard has several tools available to trace whether or not a server is being hosted on an IP address, they can even use a PUBLIC accessible page with, nearly, ALL private servers. Big and small. Made by "us" the people who'd like to promote “our” servers.
I don’t actually see where Blizzard is going but, they left gates open too long, and let people get used to unofficial features. Time for some inheritance, Blizzard?
For those who do not know me: I am MusicDemon. .Net Programmer and working on Warcraft IV - EoE.
A few weeks/months ago, I had a chat with a Blizzard/Battle.net/WoW representative about the rights/restrictions on hosting private server(s) and using bots.
What the Blizzard representative sent me said:
While reading some of the classic Battle.net pages I found the following piece:
http://classic.battle.net/info/faq.shtml said:
I found this really against to what I was "learned" so, I checked it on the TOU on the classic page, it said the following:
I could not find any reference to "bots" whatsoever...http://classic.battle.net/tou.shtml said:
Yet, for the third time, I read the new Battle.net TOU page, it said:
http://eu.blizzard.com/en-gb/company/about/termsofuse.html said:
I suppose that, if a Blizzard Representative sees this, their comment would be:
Random Blizzard representative said:
This, however, explains why Blizzard started that massive ban attack on +/-3000 CdKeys of all clients after the launch of their new website. Still, if you would put a representative for one day (actively) on bot spotting (even for Custom Games) then I'd think they'd catch 25% of the "bot plague".
Going back to what this representative said, as I interpreted it:
First sentence: People may host private server, but be warned: they can change your computer.
Second sentence: That doesn't mean that YOU have the right to do it! Only our friends and us!
Fourth sentence: But, IF YOU DON'T TRUST ME, CHECK IT YOURSELF!
To go even further into this "weird" ongoing of Blizzard's changes.
There are several big servers (Between 4000-1200 users) and yet, they don't close them! Why? My thoughts on it are:
1. Keep an eye on the big ones, small ones will die soon.
2. The more there are, the less we can control it.
Just a small political question: Is Blizzard "helping" their own TOU/TOS into vain? As I understood, Blizzard had only sent an official warning once! To a server that wasn't even big. (Which, however, had a restart soon after.)
Blizzard has several tools available to trace whether or not a server is being hosted on an IP address, they can even use a PUBLIC accessible page with, nearly, ALL private servers. Big and small. Made by "us" the people who'd like to promote “our” servers.
I don’t actually see where Blizzard is going but, they left gates open too long, and let people get used to unofficial features. Time for some inheritance, Blizzard?
