Unethical Gameplay?

[Jabberie]

Random example, the one MiRai did in his video>
Imagine you are smelting 7000 ores on each, you got 20 accounts.
You are lazy so you have them all lined up in a big long row in dalaran.
People get jealous.
You ofcourse just choose smelt all and go afk. You know that you will auto logoff in around 30 min, so you set your watch for 25 min.
A Gm contacts you because someone reported you around 2 min after you went afk irl.
You do not respond... you get banned.
In this example i dont think you should be banned.

Are you sure you want to use this as an example?

[WOWBOX40]

Are you sure you want to use this as an example?

I just gave an example. its also a stationary "farm" so to speak. Ive not tried to smelt bars myself ingame.

If i were a auction house hero focusing on smelting cheap ores to sell bars, i would most definitly not be sitting in front on my pc all the time while smelting all day long. I would run insane. It even have a feature to smelt all bars non stop. I guess its a perk.

But who knows, if you arent there, you went afk, and you got reported for cheating, maybe its possible to get banned.
i mean, its also possible that you arent able to see the GM popup on "toon nr 15", if its a very small window.
Even if you actually sat right there in front of the computer engaged in a movie on monitor nr 5.

I guess if there was a timelimit you got to respond to a GM, i guess it should be atleast within 25 min.

Now its your turn to explain why i maybe shouldnt have given this as an example.

[Jabberie]

It's not at farm at all. It's pressing one button to create all and going afk. No other commands are done at all to your character in your 25 mins.

[mbox_bob]

Are you sure you want to use this as an example?

The only rule that example really contravenes is 7.c.iii of the TOU (which is pretty wide open and non specific).

(iii) Anything that Blizzard considers contrary to the "essence" of the Game.

Which the interpretation might be, "your character is doing boring repetitive stuff, so you should be getting the experience of doing boring repetitive stuff too", but this is not actually the case is it. Your character is putting stuff in a forge, melting stuff, cleaning it, pouring it, moulding it, cooling it. You on the other hand are keeping a seat warm. Perhaps if you did some cleaning around the house (or making cakes) while AFK, at the same time, it would be a on a par experience, and the WAF would be high.

If the essence of the game play is to capture your attention, then perhaps the design of areas which do not require your attention needs to be looked at.

[WOWBOX40]

Before i pass out of tiredness, i had a sudden possible "eyeopener" moment.


Maybe, since the time you have available while you go afk, untill you auto log out of the game, is 30 min...
That means that its perfectly OK to be afk *you literarly are and the sign above your head says AFK".....even if you are doing something...f.ex smelting.

This means that you will log out automatically after 30 min.

If you arent....then you could possibly be a botter.


So me having a key remap to "jump", which prevents me from going AFK status and eventually auto log out... could be a good sign of a possible botter.

So......... if i atleast look at my screens closely around every 20 ish min, i shouldnt have any issues.


"Just seems kinda logical at the moment.