It seems many of you don’t even understand what it is like running a full-blown Android OS in a windows tablet. It’s NOT an emulator, it runs Android natively just like you have an Android in a Samsung tablet or some of the latest Google Play supported Chromebooks.
Those who prepared the TOS probably didn’t even consider such devices. So, there is a good chance you’ll be flagged for using a “third party software” and get banned because the device id won’t show it as a known Android device. But it makes no sense at all since it’s not different from using an Android tablet such as Galaxy Tab S6.
But if you use an Android phone with a custom OS such as Lineage OS I don’t think it’ll get flagged because the device id will still show it as a known Android device.
Custom OS is not the same as running an emulator in a Windows or Mac OS. It is native Android.
It's third party software in terms of the tos and that's the only information relevant to OP's situation.
Is it? It’s Android. How is that a third party software exactly?
Bluestacks or other emulators are among the third party software because you run them within a Windows container and people can use Windows functionality to run bots.
Running a modified version of MCOC is using third party software because you modify the files and recompile apk to make a MOD, which is cheating.
In this situation it is native Android that is GMS compliant with Google and you download the game directly from the Play Store. Once again, it is literally no different from playing this game in a Samsung Galaxy Tab S6.
To the OP:
Don’t expect anyone give you the exact answer because no one knows for sure. Not even moderators. At best, you get an answer reminding you that using any emulators or third party software is against TOS without telling you whether your specific case falls under that category. And you are likely to be flagged if you play this game on a Windows tablet for the reasons I mentioned in my previous post.
So, better not do it.
Since you can either use those as a full os or use the same android version as an emulated overlay for your actual os this is still understandably problematic in terms of what doing that enables you to.
Also I'm pretty sure all of those android os versions are still an unlicensed custom versions, at least that's all I found.
And that's the thing. I play on an LG G8 and LG essentially has a custom android as most android phones have to a varying degree. Those however are all officially licensed.
I really don't get what you're trying to do here lol. None of what you said is relevant to the situation, fully correct or relevant to the tos.
I am trying to explain to everyone making false claims that it is a more complicated situation than people with no knowledge of the situation saying what it is. I appreciate you backpedaling from your earlier comment that "In that case you'd need to use an emulator to run android to run mcoc" which is factually an incorrect statement.
I understand that playing the game with Android OS installed on a windows tablet is not a good idea, as I told the OP and recommended not to do it.
If anything I said is not "fully correct," please feel free to correct my statements. I'll gladly admit I am wrong if demonstrated objectively.
Since you seem to know so well how these things work and have confidence in what you are saying, what do you think about this tablet:
Is it a violation of TOS to play the game on it? Both Android and Windows are natively baked into the tablet by the OEM. When Android tablets were a little more popular, even Samsung and Asus were planning to release similar devices. But those aren't popular any more.
The point is that the OP asked a legitimate question and some of you are responding like the OP committed a crime. I remember people replying in the same manner when asked about Chromebooks when OEMs began releasing Chromebooks with native Google Play support. "Read the bloody TOS," "get ready to be banned," "using third party software is against TOS" were the screams in response. They were all wrong.
He's just asking whether it is something that would be OK to do (he hadn’t actually done it yet). Which is a whole lot better than those that go ahead and do it first, and ask questions later after getting a ban.
And we’re just advising him of what we have seen in the past from Kabam, etc.
And playing the phone with a game pad is ok which the game aren’t supposed to be played that way
Apps are not just limited to running on a “phone” (for whatever definition a “phone” is nowadays). Samsung tablets and Apple iPads are indeed the same system as their phones, except for most likely not having the built-in Cellular Service and ability to make a Cell Phone call. Some phones themselves are basically getting to be as large as smaller Tablets now, and some Tablets actually come with Cellular service capability built in too.
Or do you mean something else when you say “Game Pad” ?
Yeah a video from KT1 showing a kabam support that confirmed that the game could be played with a Gamepad as it wasn’t against TOS which I found it weird as a gamepad is literally a third party software
So why then have Kabam just ended support for x86 processors as at 29th June and I mean literally ended as in you can't even login on one now. Surely those processors are from PCs not iPads and tablets and phones? I moved to Bluestacks a few months ago when support for my iPad2 (still works beautifully for everything else) ended. Can't be a coincidence that on the same day they ended support and did the update I can no longer login on my PC? I think they were allowing it just not any kind of modding that possibly could be done in a PC environment. Anyway I'm out of here until I can afford a new Ipad or something similar. Near 6 years wasted unless I spend money on hardware to keep playing
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I understand that playing the game with Android OS installed on a windows tablet is not a good idea, as I told the OP and recommended not to do it.
If anything I said is not "fully correct," please feel free to correct my statements. I'll gladly admit I am wrong if demonstrated objectively.
Since you seem to know so well how these things work and have confidence in what you are saying, what do you think about this tablet:
https://www.amazon.com/ChuwiUSA-Windows-Android-Detachable-keyboard/dp/B07BRZSTNH?ref_=fsclp_pl_dp_1
Is it a violation of TOS to play the game on it? Both Android and Windows are natively baked into the tablet by the OEM. When Android tablets were a little more popular, even Samsung and Asus were planning to release similar devices. But those aren't popular any more.
The point is that the OP asked a legitimate question and some of you are responding like the OP committed a crime. I remember people replying in the same manner when asked about Chromebooks when OEMs began releasing Chromebooks with native Google Play support. "Read the bloody TOS," "get ready to be banned," "using third party software is against TOS" were the screams in response. They were all wrong.
Yeah a video from KT1 showing a kabam support that confirmed that the game could be played with a Gamepad as it wasn’t against TOS which I found it weird as a gamepad is literally a third party software