Top Arena Teams Out-right Disqualified

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MrPel — Mon, 14 May 2007 21:18:34 GMT

A 'joke' indeed.

LF1M REASONABLE GD GAME ADMINISTRATORS! PST

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mgindles — Mon, 14 May 2007 21:18:33 GMT

"The large amount of time it takes to level a new character and class from 1-70, not to mention gear that character to be able to play on the level required for top teams, means it’s much more likely they will share accounts or use accounts discarded by teammates or guildmates, or even buy some. Check Six, for example, had problems because two members used accounts under one of their teammates’ names so they could prepare more quickly for the arena tournament." - quoted from the article

So basically, they feel that because they are trying to be the best of the best of the best, they should be allowed to break the rules that the rest of us are forced to follow. Sure, there could be legitimate reasons for having different names on the account. I have sympathy for those players. But the article doesn't say anything about that being the case; none of the players say anything to the effect that their parents pay for it, or they moved, etc. The article gives all the reasons why they have to share accounts, buy them, etc. Quinn (who comes across as WoW's biggest tool) even admits that some of them broke the rules, saying “and when people kinda take a short cut to get to that point (buy/borrow an account) they can't even participate in one of the bigger tournaments.”

In addition to being disqualified from the tourney, I hope that everyone of those players that they find to be breaking the ToS get their account banned.

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Kody — Mon, 14 May 2007 21:18:32 GMT

mgindles:

I can agree with you that account sharing/trading is definitely against the rules. That said, I believe Vhell(as an example) actually does fall under one of the other situations, where there was no rule-breaking involved.

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Taldren — Mon, 14 May 2007 21:18:31 GMT

>> In addition to being disqualified from the tourney, I hope that everyone of those players that they find to be breaking the ToS get their account banned. >>

I'm sorry, but you are acting like a tool. This isn't real life, it's a video game. They (or at least someone) is PAYING RL money to be able to play the game for enjoyment. The tournament is about the players themselves acting as a team in which the best team wins, I could give a damn about where the origins of the accounts came from.

Suggesting that their accounts should be permanently taken away because you think its 'unfair' that they took a short cut to 70 is pure envy. It doesn't change the person and his/her skills behind the character and that is what the tournament should be measuring.

As far as my opinion on these tournaments, blizzard should make it like NASCAR and build even pre-made characters of race/class of the contestants choosing in order to guarantee that it is the skill of the players, rather then the equipment that is the main factor. In which case it wouldn't matter what account you have or where you got it from.

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KeeZnl — Mon, 14 May 2007 21:18:30 GMT

One word :

PWND !!

Really really stupid, just check the rules guys you should've known...

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DonL — Mon, 14 May 2007 21:18:29 GMT

"It's rather unfortunate that something like this has occured; there are many, many reasons a person could have someone else's name on their account - everything ranging from a different credit card being used, to the account being created under their parents' name because of age issues, at the time of account creation." ...

plenty of other reasons too like buying accounts off IGN and the other gold farming networks. Using friends accounts that have quit the game which is completely against the TOS so do I feel sorry for them hell no. Do I think their accounts should be banned umm yeah

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Zexi — Mon, 14 May 2007 21:18:28 GMT

lol so when are the sponsorships pulling out.

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Nukemz — Mon, 14 May 2007 21:18:27 GMT

You guys are aware that Pandemic and Check six are an estalished professional team for different games right? Pandemic is cal-i for cs...But different players and a whole different division..Do you think professional gamers are gonna be like "lawl they got banned we win"?

Its going to make anything blizzard does look like a joke in the eyes of professional gamers..Pro teams have impacts within the community as well..so there "fans" is going to agree with them 100% and think this whole thing was indeed a joke.

Instead of doing horseshit crap like that just do premade toons..Ask the team what classes they want, and have it all matching gear but different trinkets/rings/neck/cape to choose from.

Im loving the ppl claiming "Look at the rules" 90% of people on WoW share their accounts..Rather its for monetary gain or to just help out a guild. Don't see anyone complaning about account sharing when you cant run an instance cause your overloaded on one class but dont have a certain ammount of another class..So they login to their friends account whos offline to come and help.

the other 5% well..erm either you have no friends..Your toon is *** so noone needs it or you cant be trusted.

Only reason why blizzard implemented that rule is so that rich kids couldnt get powerleveled/buy toons...which in the end doesnt hurt the economy or anything except blizzard losing money and they cant have that so they hit the banhammer.

Lets not get started on how 90% of "hacked account" issues does not rule in your favor. Ive seen dozen of people claim their account got hacked..But in the end blizzard banned them for account sharing. So I was like ok..Maybe they did..untill it happened to 3 people I know and 2 of them lost everything and blizzard kept their accounts banned after it was indeed a hacked account.

Blizzard is a damn joke..A billion dollar company cant even think of new ideas for games? They just keep on releasing expansions and number 2's and 3's ect..

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Salsa — Mon, 14 May 2007 21:18:26 GMT

I've never heard a bigger whine from people that broke the rules before.

Basicly it's about people that want wow without the rules applied to the rest of us.

The only pity I can feel with these guys is their inability to look at the broader picture instead of the narrowminded "me-me-me" mentality the article reeks of.

If blizzard did not react to people not having the same name as their acount was registered to, it would indeed have become a joke. As is, it's merely the 'profs' (as they claim they are) that are a joke in their inability to act proffesional.

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xxxpharaoh — Mon, 14 May 2007 21:18:25 GMT

/cry It's really can't be that hard to have your name on the account or change it especially for something this "important". I'm glad Blizz is reinforcing the rules for once. Buy it/Pay for Power level, it might not seem like a big deal but it is for a most over populated servers out there. Sorry arena players- transfer ownership and try again next round. If want to be the best of the best of the best--- your not going to get it taking shortcuts like powerleveling or having someone else play ur toon while ur whatevering... just my POV

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Adonzo — Mon, 14 May 2007 21:18:24 GMT

"90% of people on WoW share their accounts.."

90% of statistics are made up on the spot, and some, such as this, are complete and total bullshit.

PS. 100 - 90 = 5? L2math

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aikouka — Mon, 14 May 2007 21:18:23 GMT

I'm originally from Lightning's Blade (transfered off a bit ago, but that doesn't affect this) and I'm a bit disappointed to see Clan Hex disqualified (as they were the team I was rooting for). I guessed that Terrion would be on the list, but I assumed that he would be since he's foreign and there may've been some required work-around for someone in a different region (EU) to play in the US/Oceanic region.

I can understand how people see some of the actions as breaking the rules. But when the actual event that breaks the rules doesn't affect the player's skills, why is this a bad thing? You could look at something such as steroids in baseball... those can increase the player's physical prowess (and lower their prowess elsewhere hehe). Gear is definitely part of someone's ability, but you can give a new player an awesome character (gear-wise) and he'd probably still lose to an experienced player... it's the skills and cohesion of the teams that we're testing here.

Well, we'll just have to see what happens.

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Muricas — Mon, 14 May 2007 21:18:22 GMT

This is another fine example, set forth by Blizzard, where litigation has ruined something that would have otherwise been a great thing.

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Qvistgaard — Mon, 14 May 2007 21:18:21 GMT

Does this crazy rule not mean that all "pro" teams get left out by the pure reason that they might have their account sponsored by, for example, a company, or a professional organization, that has multiple teams spread over multiple games?

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Sunwind — Mon, 14 May 2007 21:18:20 GMT

Basically these noobs were too lazy to level up their own characters so they went to #wow.trade on IRC or eBay and bought their characters. Ha-ha I say.