Would having a Horde and an Ally online at the same time be against the rules?

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When at last patch I was updating my 5 WoW's, I had a small moment to actualy read the EULA ... And I found a rule saying: It's illigal for players of one faction to talk with another player of the opposite faction at any one time.

Does this mean it's illigal to use text to make words like 'h e l l o' shown to the other faction while you just typed ''hh ee bb bb ee hh' for instance ?

Or would it mean you may not have any contact with a player online in WoW on the other side the you are playing on ? Ofcourse normaly Blizz can't really check this, but I used to accounts to lvl a 41 horde hunter to lvl 46 using my lvl 70 ally hunter...

Any ideas or experience here ?

[Diamndzngunz]

lol is that rule really there?

I did not find anything.
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/legal/eula.html

[opt]

if that was the case wouldnt it be against the rules to have the WoW Realm forums?
Alliance and Horde converse there all the time.
There is nothing stopping you from logging into the opposite factions vent and have a chat, it used to happen quite alot on an old realm i was apart of

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C. You agree that you will not :

iv. allow players who are playing characters aligned with the "Alliance" faction to chat or otherwise communicate directly with players who are playing characters aligned with the "Horde" faction, or vice versa;

Source: http://www.wow-europe.com/en/legal/termsofuse.html

It's in the EU version of the Terms of Use, I read it when the game restarted, was in the last of te 3 screen you will have to press accept.

Seems it is indeed not allowed to have 2 chars running, 1 in each faction ? I'm gonna contact a GM when I get home tonight. Would be a stupid reason to get banned / suspended :thumbdown:

[Monkofdoom]

allow players who are playing characters aligned with the "Alliance" faction to chat or otherwise communicate directly with players who are playing characters aligned with the "Horde" faction, or vice versa;

It's all in the interpretation (as with most rules), I believe the rule is actually stating you can not be logged into one faction and talking to a member of the opposite faction through that character.

playing characters aligned with the "Alliance" faction to chat or otherwise communicate directly with players who are playing characters aligned with the "Horde" faction,

If you are playing alliance and log into a horde character you are not chatting or communicating directly from an alliance aligned character to talk to horde players. You are in fact talking from a horde character to a horde character, the rule is to stop people creating addons / hacks to allow you to talk from an alliance character directly to a horde character.

Pre-TBC many of my friends and I played both horde and alliance on the same server, in TBC our alliance guild actually rerolled to horde (transferring to a new server) with a horde guild and we merged to form a new guild. We never had any problems with the cross faction communication etc and had spoken to GM's about it many times.

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That's the first option I stated in my post. I'll just go with that, thanks for your reply!

I'll contact a GM tonight and see what they say about it, too, and post my findings here aswell.

[roddo]

I've heard of this being the case on pvp servers, preventing a player from using 2 accounts to harass someone by ganking them, part of the reason why you can only have one faction on a pvp server.

[-silencer-]

Yeah, once discovered, and on a PvP server, one person owning horde & alliance toons shouldn't be allowed.

For example, there's a raging douchebag on Laughing Skull named Pandemoniumx. Visit the realm forums and you'll see him. He's got a lvl 70 Hode warlock named Pandamoniumx, and a lvl 70 Alliance paladin named Pandemoniumx. On his paladin, he created a guild called Disciples of Pandemonium. On his warlock, he sits in the lowbie areas (usually Redridge & Duskwood) constantly griefing players, then logs on his paladin and whispers them to join his guild - if they don't, the warlock will continue to corpse camp them. Therefore, he's got well over 300 members in his "guild" who just wanted to avoid being corpse camped.

That activity seems to be strictly breaking the reason for not allowing one account to have both horde & alliance characters on the same PvP server.. and I'm stunned Bliz hasn't done anything about it. I do all I can to encourage the Discples guild members to ditch that faux guild for one that actually means something..

[Eteocles]

There's alot of non-multiboxers who have alt/trial accounts specifically for talking to the other faction, mostly for pvp-related reasons(e.g; lv1 Warr whispers: OMFG U NOOB IT TOOK 3 OF U TO KILL ME U SUK LOLZ EVEN THO I WERE IN TOWN AND U HAD 8 GUARDS + 2 PATROLLING WOLF RIDERS ON U HAHAHA QQ MORE)

Using and/or abusing the Gobbledygook system that muddles and befuddles what we type is more or less in the same grey area boat as AHK; it can be used improperly(Like a few horde I know that found & spam racial slurs to alliance nonstop through it), but it also has legit/less offensive uses(such as "Ag Ee oo D a p LOL" translates to "[Common] Me Lo ve Y o u BUR" and the less nice but still non-offensive one I personally came up with, "Ag Lol d D a p" = "Me Bur y Y o u" ;p); due to how limited it is and the majority of people only knowing a phrase or two at most it shouldn't be an issue. Plus, it makes sense: In any war, the opposing faction will have translators or even learn very loose, poorly-grammared(irony) phrases to communicate or taunt with.

The fact that all races of both factions could talk to each other without any issues whatsoever in War3 doesn't exactly support Blizz's decision either lol; plus, if Trolls/Undead/Tauren can learn and speak Orcish as their "Common" language, it shows learning is possible ;p

[Vyndree]

My friend has a horde warlock and a ally warlock on my server. The only issue is that /follow doesn't work cross faction