I feel sad since I always watched AWC and Zeepeye was an exceptional player.
But wow is not the game to make a living. There are other games for this. Also, twitch is the way obviously but you need to have some kind of charisma or being ridiculous to have a chance there.
I feel that blizzard wants to get rid of wow esports.
P.S. Did you see Loony’s response? About harassing Whaaz’s girlfriend? That was pathetic.
yea then people would play in awc who are in it not only for money.
Sure basement dwellers living at their moms have an advantage above a family father playing 2h a day, but that doesn’t really matter. I gave up on playing serious a long time ago since I just cannot invest the time anymore.
They will also realize it one day that their hardcore gaming days are over
Indeed, only that it’s not blurred at all. We all know it’s just boosting, the boosters know it’s just boosting, the boostees know it’s just boosting and that’s why they do it.
If it was coaching, then yes, as you say, it should be done through skirms, wargames, vods etc.
It’s pure boosting and should be banned on all levels.
I despise boosting for tokens as well, as it’s absolutely the same, in regard for its destructive influence on the players (that don’t use it), it’s just different in whose pocket the money go. If it’s Activision’s it’s ok…disgusting.
That’s what snowmixy did for her r1 though
This.
The argument that “but you have to play 10 hours a day to be competitive in AWC” is just so bullsh*t.
The only reason you have to do that is because everyone is RMT’ing so they can sit at home and play WoW 10+ hours a day. If that wasn’t the case everyone would be forced to get a part / full time job and they wouldn’t have to spend such ridiculous amounts of hours to be competitive.
They banned these websites because they were cheating. Streamers who were shareholders of them were pretending they are winning a lot of skins on their streams while they got bigger win chance than other users. The other reason why they banned websites is loot boxes drama after SW: Battlefront II.
Coaching services and websites like Gameleap, Pvgna, Proguides, Gamerzclass still work and earn way more money. The only thing that is not allowed is selling your own account or boosting others accounts by playing on them.
If there were at least healers in skirms then ok but what’s the point of coaching in skirms if you will never face such 2 dps duos in real arenas or if you play vs noobs even trying Warrior/DK in only dps 2s. It’s pointless. With banning healers from 2v2 skirms Blizzard removed the purpose of the bracket. It was made for practicing but if healers who are big part of the real bracket can’t play in it - what’s the point.
They don’t need to practice 10 hrs/per day, its not FPS game with mechanical skill or RTS with micro-control. In WoW for them there is much less competition. No1 from real PvP commintites world will ever play WoW, cuz no1 will watch this. This guy just have no real life and can’t find themself besided this videogame.
The coaches don’t play in the same game though right?
Sometimes they do. For example if they coach carry player they might play support on other account. Most of the times they are watching player live with in game tool and give live tips on what this player has to do. WoW doesn’t give any tools to coach properly.
Imo banning for RMT doesn’t make sense mate because using this logic Blizzard should ban every streamer who plays with his twitch subscribers. They are also getting more real life money from these subs. Where is the logic?
If playing the game is not enough to provide for a living maybe they need to get a job?
Might not be as fun as playing wow for a living but that’s reality.
I never liked banning healers from skirms.
That doesn’t change the fact though, that other ways, not rated arena, should be used for coaching, cause the other thing is pure boosting.
That was not the only reason. I personally know the dota 2 sites, which I was using for gambling, that got banned because they were taking small percentage of winnings from users. But in the end everything was caused by cs:go scandal generally.
So you’re saying it is legal in all of these games, for the best players in the world to group up with anyone and boost them up to the top rank? Because lets face it, they aren’t coaching, they’re boosting.
The fact WoW doesn’t have spectator support is irrelevant, you could literally just stream your game and do it that way if you had to.
It’s not legal to boost them to top rank. Players basically play with the guy and coaching giving live tips during the game. No one is boosting to top rank. I believe it’s technically not possible to boost challenger player to rank 1 playing with him because he would make mistakes and die multiple times on gladiator level.
Boosts to rank 1 at least in my mind are done by account selling or by someone playing on your account.
It can be done to R1. You can’t name and shame on here but let’s just say I’ve seen some very obvious examples (discord and xunamate screenshots).
What’s more common though is that they incorporate wintrading and queueing at 2 AM.
More importantly it’s been done to Gladiator level without “iffy methods” more times than people care to count.
But then it’s done by wintrading not a real boost. Wintrading should be insta ban with no hesitation.
Did you miss half the post?
More common, not the only method.
No cloud 9 and other esport teams have to pay them or you think riot games paying players in lol? But nobody cares about wow e sport. Like imagine having like 5k serious players in wow and expect serious esport.
cheaters? how did they cheat?
Gold. She said so in the video and i doubt she would lie about that.