My Thoughts on <Limit> Bans and Accusations of Blizzard Favoritism

I didn't to make a video dedicated to this because it's kind of stupid so I'll just post this instead.



It's pathetic isn't it? A multi-billion dollar company that has spent the better part of a decade getting cucked by sweaty neckbeards who break their ToS in every way possible in order to finance themselves playing World of Warcraft for 12 hours a day.



The fact that Blizzard has let this go on for so long, especially when some of the most egregious offenders are blatantly advertising account sharing and real money carry websites on their Twitch streams is nothing less than pathetic.



Now, finally, Blizzard has decided to grow a dick and fuck the cheaters. The question is if they're fucking all the cheaters, or just some of them?



Recently, <Limit> had a bunch of their members banned. For a number of them, this was their second ban and it was a permaban instead of a 6 month. I'm not going to go into the details of this because I don't know them and it's irrelevant to the conversation. Also--there's no guarantee that the information the members from <Limit> provided is true given that there's no way to verify.



What is relevant is that it's fairly obvious that many (if not all) of the top raiding guilds blatantly break the ToS in more and less harmful ways. However, only one or two guilds have been actioned. People generally dislike unfairness so it comes as no surprise that the actions against <Limit> members would bring up questions and frustrations as to why only those players are being actioned and not members from other guilds as well?



Obviously, no one except Blizzard knows the actual answer to this and anyone who thinks they do is a fool. That being said, if Blizzard wants the community to respect their ToS, to respect their decisions, and to respect the integrity of the game, Blizzard needs to be the first to do so.



If account sharing is against the ToS and guilds are using account sharing to achieve advantages, everyone who participates should receive (roughly) the same treatment. If selling carries for real money is against the ToS, then everyone who sells carries for real money should be actioned in a similar way.



While I 100% support banning people for cheating (account sharing, RMT, botting, etc), punishing some people and not all people is a quick way to get respect from no one. Lets hope this is the first of many and not the first and only.

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