Potential Delay to v44.1 Launch
We are currently working through some issues that may affect the release window of v44.1. This means that the update may not release on Monday as it usually does. We are working to resolve the issue holding us up as quickly as possible, but will keep you all updated, especially if the delay results in any changes to the content release schedule.
We are currently working through some issues that may affect the release window of v44.1. This means that the update may not release on Monday as it usually does. We are working to resolve the issue holding us up as quickly as possible, but will keep you all updated, especially if the delay results in any changes to the content release schedule.
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Gifting Badge Discussion [Merged Threads]
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Miike wrote that they want to bring the badges back in the future as soon as they figured out a solution to the problem.
If we report it, Kabam should be able to take note of it. Sharing accounts, logging in from different devices, at different locations, or gaining rapid items from new, unconnected accounts that aren't friends or on a team with the recipient(s), or from gaining accounts that seem to constantly play Arena 24 hours a day, building excess Units that they then trade off to these 'strangers.'
What happens with the bot accounts? How can this be addressed? And, more importantly, what is going to be done against these cheaters? Alliance War removal? Will they miss out on the season rewards? Will they be banned? Those who used fraudulent units faced a week/weak suspension, allowing them a bye week off season. So where is the penalty?
It should be viewable to Kabam which accounts were bot accounts. How much they excessively played Arena and traded and to whom. Those buying items from the bots were likely using them in things like Variant, Act 6, and in Alliance Quest and Alliance War, as well as for refreshes in Arena. All modes could have been compromised. Arena scores could have been corrupted to prevent legitimate high scores from ranking for fighters. Alliance Wars could have cheating players stocking strong heals, revives and boosts at a discount, and the same with Alliance Quest, allowing them to breeze though fights without jeopardy (including Map 7). The same problems present with Variant and Act 6. Revives, heals and boosts are no concern if they were obtained at a black market discount, and hopefully this will be investigated especially for Legend runs for Act 6.
So another Alliance War Season ends. Once again, cheating and corruption occurs in the community, and legitimate players are left waiting for what Kabam will or won't do to these repeat offenders.
there *are* grey areas.
for example, used record stores or used bookstores.
digital media changed everything, truly.
but you can still sell your physical product to used stores like those. and they are allowed to re-sell what you sold them as well, but neither party has any ownership of the copyright, but it is legal.
even libraries are allowed to sell books if they decide to take them out of circulation.
furthermore, it is also legal to sell items that say "not for resale." i am talking about things like Advance Copies of music albums and books. they are required to be stamped with a not for resale when they are sent out to reviewers or buyers, but once that title has been released to the general public, it is legal to sell them to the general public.
not sure if any of that is relevant, i am just mentioning it because there are so many exceptions to things. laws are an absolute mess.
fwiw, i live in california so maybe our laws are different, i dont know.
It is within Kabam's rights to prohibit this activity, and they can take action against accounts that violate that rule. You could even argue this is a contract violation. But the agreement between players and Kabam is a civil matter, and breaking any of those terms requires civil remedy. There's no specific crime per se in this case (unless you want to argue unauthorized use of a computer system, and good luck with that one).
Plus, the notion of "digital copyrighted property" is a bit jumbled here. Copyright protects intellectual property, not tangible property. If I break into a Target in the middle of the night and steal a bunch of CDs, I have stolen tangible property - the CDs - from Target. I have not stolen the "digital copyrighted property" burned into them in the legal sense. The copyright owner themselves have no loss or rights violated there. This relates to the difference between the medium, the expression, and the idea. One can be stolen. One can have authors rights violated. One can't be protected at all.
except for the golden rule, i guess i'm upset that the compensation package was on the measly side.
my last comment was i thought kind of in line with the idea that we are leasing our champs from kabam.
maybe i am an anarchist lol, but i think that humans goofed with the internet. physical media was just so much simpler. none of this cognitive dissonance required. when you bought something, you could do whatever you wanted with it. many of my friends still have books or albums i loaned them years ago.
digital media has isolated humans.
damn i miss board games.
As a business operator, I have the right to give anything away to anyone I want, for any reason I want. My customers have no right to demand that I sell that thing. If I choose to give it away to customers that buy a certain product or service, that is my right. No one gets to tell me that I "actually" sold it. I actually did no such thing, and no one else's opinion matters but mine as the seller.
The thing about the marketplace of ideas is that the only effective weapons are actually ideas. It must be terrible to realize the only thing they think grants them some power is actually less than useless.
If the badge have no value and we paid for a unit pack
Then you use fake marketing to make us buy
You offer a permanent badge with it and then you took it back
The court explicitly ruled that the first sale doctrine itself was still valid, because it stated that at least in theory, a person could resell a copyrighted work if they sold the original authorized copy. In other words, if I purchased a song from iTunes and when I did the very first downloaded copy I made was to a USB drive, and then I copied that to my iPhone and computer, I was legally entitled to sell the actual USB drive with the song on it to someone else. This is silly and impractical, but legal. To quote from the ruling: The key words are "originally downloaded." The very first original download is, for the purposes of copyright and property rights, "my copy" the one I own. Every other copy is only an authorized additional copy that I don't "own." I can sell the first one, I can't sell any others, nor can I make any others for resale purposes.
None of this applies to what's being discussed regarding MCOC.
Why is that so difficult to understand. No one purchased a badge for that amount without units.
What even more interesting most of the so called lawyers/legal posters are probably order takers working for Mcdonald's. It's hilarious.