That's not what stream sniping is, that's stream cheating. Stream sniping is what happen when someone is streaming, and another person watches the stream to queue for a 1v1 ladder game at the same time to increase the chances of playing that same person. They don't necessarily keep watching the stream after that. |
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I would like to add this one thing:
Setting up ladder matches to get matched with a person over and over, is against the ToS. If someone deliberately waits till the other person starts queueing, before queueing himself, It's altering the matchmaking system in such way that you have pre-knowledge of who is queued, to greatly increase the chance of meeting up with that person more often than you would have. This can be considered (non mutual) ladder matchmaking arrangement and is against the ToS. If you stretch it out you could even say it falls under 'win-trading' as the guy that is sniping has a greatly increased chance of winning. if you stretch it out even more, you could go as far as to say the stream sniper is maphacking, and with multiple replays to show how he acts towards pre-knowledge without scouting, maphack likeliness would increase to such extend that infractions will be given. |
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I'm glad that Blizzard doesn't utilize their right to be allowed to ban anyone at any time to prevent certain people (CombatEX?) from greatly hurting the community that Blizzard's customers are so proud of. Also choosing to defend these couple of players over thousands of their customers seems like a real good market strategy.
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