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Why don't people just end their subscriptions? A financial hit will get their attention.
by pkaye 7y ago
Why don't people just end their subscriptions? A financial hit will get their attention.
- olliej 7y agoThe problem is all recent blizzard games require a net connection, so it's not terminating your subscription, but rather stop playing games that you have already paid for.
- Razengan 7y agoI think there are still pirate servers out there.
- olliej 7y agoBut that would be illegal - I was initially thinking of this as a joke in the replay, but then I realized under US law at least this would be a crime. To be clear: a company can arbitrarily break something you paid for by terminating your account, or just taking the servers online, that is completely legal. That company can then sue you if you connect to someone else's servers or bring up your own, because that is illegal copyright infringement or contractual violation (and possibly CFAA violation because idiocy).
- zygimantasdev 7y agoIf you paid for the game client(wow) it is not illegal to play in private servers
- leereeves 7y agoIn the US, it is illegal (copyright infringement) to run a private server. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2010/08/the-88-million-server-private-wow-server-op-loses-big/ https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2010/08/the-88-million-server... And given that, a lawyer could argue that paying to play on (or even donating to) a private server is contributory copyright infringement. I don't know if that has been tested in court. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contributory_copyright_infringement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contributory_copyright_infring... But oftentimes you can get away with it; few game companies go after small private servers.
- olliej 7y agoYou mean Diablo and Starcraft? They do cost money, yet still require access to Blizzard servers, and running on separate servers is a T&C violation, which the DoJ considers a violation of the CFAA.
- atomi 7y agoJaywalking is also illegal.
- Zanni 7y agoIf you stop playing Hearthstone (the game at the heart of this controversy), you stop paying for new expansions. Even if you're free to play, you deny them a player for matchmaking (every game is a live match between two people). If enough people quit, the game will die.
- bcrosby95 7y agoThey can do both.
- iagooar 7y agoBecause most of them don't want to give up playing the games.
- ThePadawan 7y agoAre you thinking of other Activision/Blizzard properties? Hearthstone itself is free-to-play. The most a player can do is not spend future money.
- me_me_me 7y agoBeing player in multiplayer game is indirectly providing support by being opponent to other players. Multiplayer games die off due to too little pool of available players.