Incorrect assumption. Harassment/language is also a slippery slope (and imo I believe it's already on the slide -- just look at Trade chat).Originally Posted by Fursphere
A very slipperly slope. At what point does 1 person paying for 5 acounts become more important than 5 people paying for 5 accounts? Blizzard is not going to kill off paying customers for harrassing one customer (paying for 5 accounts) that is basically an un-intentional attention getter (unless you're playing shammies and droping lots of totems... hehe).
Let's assume I'm 1 player playing 1 character, and another player comes up and starts harassing me in whispers, says, and emotes. If Blizzard doesn't take action, the people walking by seeing this harassment going on will consider it standard practice, I'll probably scream and yell on forums/trade/say/general about how unfair it is, and game quality will degrade as nobody cares to play on a game where harassment isn't punished.
The fact that we have 5 characters just means that we're more likely to gather attention and more likely to get people to listen to our complaints since we're more visible. According to blizz, multiboxing is not against the ToU. Also according to blizz, Harassment (verbal & physical) is against the terms of use.
Now I'm not saying perma-ban everyone who has a potty mouth (lol), but this behavior can be nipped in the bud from anything from a 3-72 hour ban (depending on repeat offenses) to a simple "I'm warning you" pst from a GM.
People will argue that it's not their job to police the game. This is true - you're not paying money so that you can do a GM's job. However, GMs are human too and can't be everywhere at once. Your action in assisting with the enforcement of the Terms of Use will ASSIST the GMs and generally make WoW a better place to play.
So it's your choice to report or not. Half the time, threatening to report is enough to get your little trollish friend to stfu.
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