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So what are they saying exactly with 2... cyber cafes cant have sc2 on their computers??
Read again, you are not allowed to be "sponsored, promoted or facilitated" by anyone, but the event itself is ok.and are they serious that you can't hold any sort of e-sports event without getting written consent from blizzard? Is that normal?....
Yes.
Makes sense from a business point of view. A cyber cafe that buys 30 copies of SC2 and serves it to 9001 players gives Blizzard less profit than 9001 copies of SC2 sold.
Read again, you are not allowed to be "sponsored, promoted or facilitated" by anyone, but the event itself is ok.
A tournament you create yourself is allowed.
The HDH was sponsored by IRip
So what are they saying exactly with 2... cyber cafes cant have sc2 on their computers??
No, its for any game they sell. The new ToS doesn't necessarily mean cyber cafes can't have sc2 on them. They need to have Blizzard's consent first. It also says "...without limitation..." meaning there's probably certain circumstances where they wouldn't have to have blizzard's consent.That is probably just for the beta, you don't think that these conditions will actually be the same for the actual released game do you?:nuts: