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Originally Posted by quizkid
From the PT terms of service:
you cannot:
(c) Cheat, deliberately lose, trade wins or Perfect Points, "feed" wins or Perfect Points from one account to another via the auction house or any other method, or otherwise fail to make a good-faith effort to play the game in a fashion intended to win via fair gameplay according to the intended operation of the game. Note that an Out of the Park Developments account is required to play Perfect Team, and individuals are limited to a single OOTP account. Use of multiple accounts by an individual, including the use of accounts registered under another person's name, real or fictitious, will be subject to the sanctions listed in (j) (k) and (l) below for the party or parties involved.
(d) Deliberately manipulate, outside the course of normal gameplay, the game's economy or the economy of any game-related marketplace in a manner intended to gain a financial or competitive advantage.
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Thank you for clarifying this. Again I had no interest in doing it, but personally don't think that is any worse than paying to win, or getting codes from streamers.
As for (d), it seems that OOTP encourages this players to manipulate the game by allowing players to get packs from streamers. Watching a stream has nothing to do with the gameplay, but a player who get's those thousands of packets from codes clearly have manipulated the game, so that players who don't do the stream have a much more difficult chance to make the elite teams in the game and have manipulated the economy/marketplace to gain a financial and competitive edge.
Again, I'm not seeking any rule changes. OOTP is a great game with a great community, and I personally see no issue what players to do succeed including getting codes, paying to play, or jumping from league to league (outside from maybe creating two accounts, and feeding success from one to the other, or a diamond league team that drops to rookie ball).
My interest is how one thing that sticks entirely to the gameplay, is viewed as much worse than players (who OOTP encourages to) manipulate the entirety of the game from an outside source that has nothing to do with the gameplay itself.
That said I have a background of developing/facilitating large/small events/leagues/competitive challenges. So I am interested when there are rules that seem to contradict other rules. I don't do fantasy sports by a owner would be cheating if they somehow got a code from a stream to improve their team. Watch my stream and you I'll trade you Patrick Maholmes.
It simply intrigues me what is viewed as right and wrong.