After a few months of hard work, I'm proud to present: Auctionrs.com - beta.
Brief Intro
The idea behind Auctionrs is to provide an Auction House interface for
the trades that take place between players outside of video-games themselves. These trades are
usually arranged through forums and in my experience that has been a system with room for improvement.
How it works
In brief, you create representations of your items on Auctionrs's database, you auction the items
in the site and upon completion (if there is a winner) you receive the winner's in-game identification
so that you can find them and trade the actual item. A more in-depth guide can be found in the site: The Quickstart Guide
Good to see (been so many similar endeavors in the past that were too shady, not saying yours is).
What I can see is that this could be a more user-friendly d2jsp. You'll need anti-scam measures, though, like trusted mediators for big-ticket items.
I'll be watching out for this in the meantime.
Hey thanks
Auctionrs run a Reputation system which is based on how many successful (confirmed by moth users) trades they have
vs how many trades they have attempted to make through the site. I believe this will be a very good first indicator of
the other user's trustworthiness but on top of that, is there some limitation to Blizzard's trade window? I would imagine that 100% security should be easy to achieve with it.
Also known as defrauding the game master department in order to gain an in-game advantage.
Being able to trade for unlimited caps is a sterling example of going out of the game to gain an advantage, as this would most certainly be termed as such.
Aside from this, I like your idea in theory. However, you're going to need to go the JSP route and operate in full knowledge that what you're doing is against ToS.
I wouldn't expect this thread to stay up. Don't take it personally, but this site is a sanctioned (approved) fansite by Bnet.
This website (Diablofans) doesn't allow links to hacks/exploits.
As your website essentially provides a circumvention of the 15% sink, as well as the 2b cap, this is clearly an AH exploit.
Being able to trade for unlimited caps is a sterling example of going out of the game to gain an advantage, as this would most certainly be termed as such.
Do you have any citation on that? I don't remember seeing any limit set by blizzard on player to player trades. (if caps is something other than a nickname for gold, then I don't know what it is btw :P)
Being able to trade for unlimited caps is a sterling example of going out of the game to gain an advantage, as this would most certainly be termed as such.
Do you have any citation on that? I don't remember seeing any limit set by blizzard on player to player trades. (if caps is something other than a nickname for gold, then I don't know what it is btw :P)
Caps ~ referring to the 2bil gold cap (limit).
I have no personal issue with this.
I'm just sayin.....your service is stealing Blizzards money, in effect, by allowing players to trade without losing 15% of their gold.
Using a 3rd party to gain an advantage is not a little known rule. Circumventing the 15% cut, as well as being able to trade for "trillions" (if you're talking about moderation of cash trades), these avenues clearly provide players whom use such services a distinct advantage over players whom do not use such a service.
The most treacherous part of this is that it may easily be used for people to launder duplicates using your service.
Here's exact wording condemning your idea; "commercial purpose" would be if you intend on profiting in any way by your endeavor;
Exploit the Game or any of its parts for any commercial purpose without Blizzard’s express permission, except that you may use the Game on the Service at a publicly available cyber café or computer gaming center; and (ii) that you may utilize Game’s Auction House feature in accordance with the Terms of Use for the Diablo III Auction House, which are available at http://us.blizzard.c...d3rmah_tou.html
Host, provide or develop matchmaking services for the Gameor intercept, emulate or redirect the communication protocols used by Blizzard in any way, for any purpose, including without limitation unauthorized play over the internet, network play (except as expressly authorized by Blizzard), or as part of content aggregation networks;
There are players who have been suspended/banned for intentionally bypassing AH limits. I'm not so sure there's anything wrong with bypassing the 2b limit, but for RMAH, definitely, definitely, definitely.
Players have also been banned for helping their friends sell their items (basically just transferring items from one to the other and having the latter put things up for sale for the former). It's truly odd, but it's always better to be safe than sorry. That's why I mostly go by word of mouth in-game to find buyers for my items when they're clearly worth more than 2b (i.e. real money value is higher than 2b's worth).
I keep d2jsp uses to a minimum and I tend to just lurk there in case an item comes along that I may be interested in.
There are players who have been suspended/banned for intentionally bypassing AH limits. I'm not so sure there's anything wrong with bypassing the 2b limit, but for RMAH, definitely, definitely, definitely.
Players have also been banned for helping their friends sell their items (basically just transferring items from one to the other and having the latter put things up for sale for the former). It's truly odd, but it's always better to be safe than sorry. That's why I mostly go by word of mouth in-game to find buyers for my items when they're clearly worth more than 2b (i.e. real money value is higher than 2b's worth).
I keep d2jsp uses to a minimum and I tend to just lurk there in case an item comes along that I may be interested in.
There was a guy at Bnet forums just last week complaining about getting perma-banned because his friends RMAH was full @ the 10 auction limit, and his friend gave him the items to sell for him using his account. Something that was really benign, but Blizzard (rightfully so) makes no distinction between severely damaging exploits and very minor circumventions.
Being able to trade for unlimited caps is a sterling example of going out of the game to gain an advantage, as this would most certainly be termed as such.
Do you have any citation on that? I don't remember seeing any limit set by blizzard on player to player trades. (if caps is something other than a nickname for gold, then I don't know what it is btw :P)
Caps ~ referring to the 2bil gold cap (limit).
I have no personal issue with this.
I'm just sayin.....your service is stealing Blizzards money, in effect, by allowing players to trade without losing 15% of their gold.
Using a 3rd party to gain an advantage is not a little known rule. Circumventing the 15% cut, as well as being able to trade for "trillions", these avenues clearly provide players whom use such services a distinct advantage over players whom do not use such a service.
The most treacherous part of this is that it may easily be used for people to launder duplicates using your service.
Here's exact wording condemning your idea; "commercial purpose" would be if you intend on profiting in any way by your endeavor;
Exploit the Game or any of its parts for any commercial purpose without Blizzard’s express permission, except that you may use the Game on the Service at a publicly available cyber café or computer gaming center; and (ii) that you may utilize Game’s Auction House feature in accordance with the Terms of Use for the Diablo III Auction House, which are available at http://us.blizzard.c...d3rmah_tou.html
Host, provide or develop matchmaking services for the Gameor intercept, emulate or redirect the communication protocols used by Blizzard in any way, for any purpose, including without limitation unauthorized play over the internet, network play (except as expressly authorized by Blizzard), or as part of content aggregation networks;
Thanks for the link!
I'm not arguing either, just trying to be better informed
So I still feel like I'm not breaking any term:
The limit exists for trades INSIDE blizzards Auction House so I don't see why it should apply to normal trades.
About the second paragraph, I guess you could really stretch it to suggest that I am providing a kind of matchmaking,
but I'm pretty sure that they mean other kinds of matchmaking (actually match people for actual games in bnet).
Normal trading is pretty free in my understanding, there's a section in the official forums: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/3354991/
And no mention of any limit for item prices !
Sure, but I have absolutely nothing to do with the RMAH
Players have also been banned for helping their friends sell their items (basically just transferring items from one to the other and having the latter put things up for sale for the former). It's truly odd, but it's always better to be safe than sorry. That's why I mostly go by word of mouth in-game to find buyers for my items when they're clearly worth more than 2b (i.e. real money value is higher than 2b's worth).
That's playing the Auction House, I only provide a (supercharged) forum for players to arrange trades!
My advice would be to design this in a way that hides the Battletags of your members, as well as your own. Straight do this in ghost mode. Though this very website (Diablofans) allows for person to person trades, though the trades are done in game. So there may be some wiggle room in there for you.
This is the part I'd fully investigate; Host, provide or develop matchmaking services for the Game
There are players who have been suspended/banned for intentionally bypassing AH limits. I'm not so sure there's anything wrong with bypassing the 2b limit, but for RMAH, definitely, definitely, definitely.
Players have also been banned for helping their friends sell their items (basically just transferring items from one to the other and having the latter put things up for sale for the former). It's truly odd, but it's always better to be safe than sorry. That's why I mostly go by word of mouth in-game to find buyers for my items when they're clearly worth more than 2b (i.e. real money value is higher than 2b's worth).
I keep d2jsp uses to a minimum and I tend to just lurk there in case an item comes along that I may be interested in.
There was a guy at Bnet forums just last week complaining about getting perma-banned because his friends RMAH was full @ the 10 auction limit, and his friend gave him the items to sell for him using his account. Something that was really benign, but Blizzard (rightfully so) makes no distinction between severely damaging exploits and very minor circumventions.
the issue was that they were using the same paypal address and it was officially resolved on reddit (meaning a blue personally looked into the ticket, resolved the situation, and spoke with the team in regards to this type of situation). Why Ruksak must always insist on being negative I'm not sure. If I trade all my gold to someone in game, have I "circumvented" the 15% sink and thus exploited the game? Sometimes I legitimately can't tell if you just lack critical thinking skills or if you are really just a troll. To be sure, there is definitely a skewed cap value in the Auction Houses: The RMAH @ $250.00 would be much higher than the 2 billion that is limited in the GAH. Likely, we'll see an increase in the GAH cap in the future to directly align with the new RMAH gold rates. I have never seen a cap on in-game trades as far as gold is concerned so I do not see any reason why a place to arrange a trade would be outside of the ToS. The game lacks a deep trading communication medium for people looking for the very very best of gear to find one another and find a way of trading. Unfortunately, that part has to be external at the moment.
This is literally nothing more then player to player IN GAME trades.
In this app, someone puts up an item and people bid on it. The seller is informed of the person who won the trade, then must contact them IN GAME and say "Hey, I see you won the auction in the app.", to which the player respond "Yeah I did, invite me to a game and we'll trade"
The seller invites the buyer to a game (or vice versa) and the buyer trades the seller the gold, while the seller trades the buyer the item.
This is literally NOTHING different then forums that allow two users to meet to trade an item IN GAME.
In no way is this illegal. The same exact thing can be done in game via chat.
Why Ruksak must always insist on being negative I'm not sure.
lol....c'mon man.
I'm not sure where you got that bit from?
I was quite clear in saying that I thought it was a decent idea in theory, IF it was allowed. I pointed him, as a means of discussion and full disclosure, toward some areas of the ToS that may not allow such a practice.
I was trying to be helpful, and just because I wasn't relaying positive news, it doesn't mean I was trying to be negative.
Blizzard has a line in their ToS that forbids "matchmaking services". Unless I'm comprehending this wrong (and I may be), that sounds like it covers this sort of endeavor.
He asked for feedback, I gave it. I even said I like the idea, it just needs to be fully vetted with against every aspect of the ToS. My concern is any profit the OP might stand to gain from this. Which is unarguably against the ToS.
Make a thread at Bnet and ask them. If they say "no", would you feel bad for being rude to me?
This is literally nothing more then player to player IN GAME trades.
In this app, someone puts up an item and people bid on it. The seller is informed of the person who won the trade, then must contact them IN GAME and say "Hey, I see you won the auction in the app.", to which the player respond "Yeah I did, invite me to a game and we'll trade"
That sounds like a bit more than "player to player trades" to me. It sounds like an auction house on a 3rd party site which very well may be against the ToS.
Sometimes I legitimately can't tell if you just lack critical thinking skills or if you are really just a troll.
The OP has a pretty legit idea, but isn't it worth having people play devil's advocate here? You know, just so that he doesn't do something that he ends up severely regretting? I doubt, if it were somehow legally actionable, that Blizzard would ever respond in any way other than a cease and decist notice.... but it's not my ass on the line and it's easy to get flippant and blase when it's someone else standing before the judge.
In lieu of hiring an actual lawyer to represent him and comb through the fine points of the ToS versus interstate laws, etc. I would think that having skeptics on the forums would at least give him some insights as to what COULD be against the ToS. It's a sight better than sticking your fingers in your ears and thinking everything is OK and then answer a knock at the door and find out it's Blizzard's lawyers come to take your house (ok that's not exactly how it works, but you get my point).
Becuase, let's be honest, this won't go unnoticed by Blizzard for long. The minute they find out about it, all bets are off. As the saying goes: "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." If the OP is serious then he knows the difference between people just hating on him and people trying to look out for him so he doesn't end up on Blizzard's "bad people" list.
Blizzard has a line in their ToS that forbids "matchmaking services". Unless I'm comprehending this wrong (and I may be), that sounds like it covers this sort of endeavor.
What amounts to a 3rd party auction house COULD be construed as a "matchmaking service." In fact, it's highly likely that line in the ToS to prevent exactly that. I see precious other reason (related to D3) why Blizzard would ever need that in their ToS.
This is literally nothing more then player to player IN GAME trades.
In this app, someone puts up an item and people bid on it. The seller is informed of the person who won the trade, then must contact them IN GAME and say "Hey, I see you won the auction in the app.", to which the player respond "Yeah I did, invite me to a game and we'll trade"
That sounds like a bit more than "player to player trades" to me. It sounds like an auction house on a 3rd party site which very well may be against the ToS.
It's not though, you can't actually put the item on this app. The item doesn't leave the seller inventory whenever the buyer wins. Literally nothing happens in game at all. This does not take place on the Diablo/Battle.net servers. This in no way has any direct effect/control on Blizzards end.
This is literally nothing more then player to player IN GAME trades.
In this app, someone puts up an item and people bid on it. The seller is informed of the person who won the trade, then must contact them IN GAME and say "Hey, I see you won the auction in the app.", to which the player respond "Yeah I did, invite me to a game and we'll trade"
That sounds like a bit more than "player to player trades" to me. It sounds like an auction house on a 3rd party site which very well may be against the ToS.
It's not though, you can't actually put the item on this app. The item doesn't leave the seller inventory whenever the buyer wins. Literally nothing happens in game at all. This does not take place on the Diablo/Battle.net servers. This in no way has any direct effect/control on Blizzards end.
Here's the rub. Blizzard has a top-shelf legal team that reviews the language in their ToS quite thoroughly.
The term "Matchmaking services" is purposely vague. It's a stop-gap fail-safe measure to ensure that Blizzard can address any service that they may see as a threat to either their games integrity or intellectual properties.
Where this becomes slippery is the fact that if the OP's site becomes popular enough, he can garner advertising dollars from it. Thus, he'd then be running a matchmaking service that is indeed a commercial service. Two violations of the ToS that I posted earlier.
Now, Diablofans has a trade section. Which, by definition, could be fairly termed as a matchmaking service. This website also is a commercial venture.
The difference here is that the Curse network has the expressed permission of Blizzard to operate a trade section.
Exploit the Game or any of its parts for any commercial purpose without Blizzard’s express permission, Host, provide or develop matchmaking services for the Game
What I'd like to hear is Zero or any other Curse staff member chime in with confirmation that, in fact, they have expressed consent to do so. As well, their opinions on this matter.
Look I understand the urge to discuss whether this is allowed or not. I personally can't even properly judge whether this is against Blizzard's ToS, and as such against our forums rules/guidelines.
It seems to be. But it's all heavy speculation, from all parties involved here.
Speculation not because it's hard to see the violation to a said rule/text, but because only Blizzard can tell if they would take action against such a website/system (by banning players or explicitly saying the website should be shut down - at most, the OP could have a clear disclaimer of this possibility.).
And if they don't see it as a violation, I don't see why anyone else should.
Then again, I'd suggest that until we see a Blizzard statement on this subject, that we all avoid wasting our times (in my humble opinion) discussing this this is not a "mod rule enforcement", just an advice based on how I see things.
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Brief Intro
The idea behind Auctionrs is to provide an Auction House interface for
the trades that take place between players outside of video-games themselves. These trades are
usually arranged through forums and in my experience that has been a system with room for improvement.
How it works
In brief, you create representations of your items on Auctionrs's database, you auction the items
in the site and upon completion (if there is a winner) you receive the winner's in-game identification
so that you can find them and trade the actual item.
A more in-depth guide can be found in the site: The Quickstart Guide
Why you might like the Auctionr for Diablo 3
No bidding capRidiculously high bidding cap: If you want to bid more than a few trillion gold, let me knowArmory | YouTube | Twitter | Clan Site
No, no gold sink:
The site works just like a forum would, it brings a buyer and a seller in contact, and then they trade the item in game.
The difference from a forum is that items get indexed and can be searched just like in the Auction House.
Obviously the first thing I did, was to read Blizzard's rules carefully. I couldn't find any reason why they would have a problem with this.
What I can see is that this could be a more user-friendly d2jsp. You'll need anti-scam measures, though, like trusted mediators for big-ticket items.
I'll be watching out for this in the meantime.
Armory | YouTube | Twitter | Clan Site
Hey thanks
Auctionrs run a Reputation system which is based on how many successful (confirmed by moth users) trades they have
vs how many trades they have attempted to make through the site. I believe this will be a very good first indicator of
the other user's trustworthiness but on top of that, is there some limitation to Blizzard's trade window? I would imagine that 100% security should be easy to achieve with it.
Also known as defrauding the game master department in order to gain an in-game advantage.
Being able to trade for unlimited caps is a sterling example of going out of the game to gain an advantage, as this would most certainly be termed as such.
Aside from this, I like your idea in theory. However, you're going to need to go the JSP route and operate in full knowledge that what you're doing is against ToS.
I wouldn't expect this thread to stay up. Don't take it personally, but this site is a sanctioned (approved) fansite by Bnet.
This website (Diablofans) doesn't allow links to hacks/exploits.
As your website essentially provides a circumvention of the 15% sink, as well as the 2b cap, this is clearly an AH exploit.
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Do you have any citation on that? I don't remember seeing any limit set by blizzard on player to player trades. (if caps is something other than a nickname for gold, then I don't know what it is btw :P)
Caps ~ referring to the 2bil gold cap (limit).
I have no personal issue with this.
I'm just sayin.....your service is stealing Blizzards money, in effect, by allowing players to trade without losing 15% of their gold.
Using a 3rd party to gain an advantage is not a little known rule. Circumventing the 15% cut, as well as being able to trade for "trillions" (if you're talking about moderation of cash trades), these avenues clearly provide players whom use such services a distinct advantage over players whom do not use such a service.
The most treacherous part of this is that it may easily be used for people to launder duplicates using your service.
Here's exact wording condemning your idea; "commercial purpose" would be if you intend on profiting in any way by your endeavor;
BurningRope#1322 (US~HC) Request an invite to the official (NA) <dfans> Clan
There are players who have been suspended/banned for intentionally bypassing AH limits. I'm not so sure there's anything wrong with bypassing the 2b limit, but for RMAH, definitely, definitely, definitely.
Players have also been banned for helping their friends sell their items (basically just transferring items from one to the other and having the latter put things up for sale for the former). It's truly odd, but it's always better to be safe than sorry. That's why I mostly go by word of mouth in-game to find buyers for my items when they're clearly worth more than 2b (i.e. real money value is higher than 2b's worth).
I keep d2jsp uses to a minimum and I tend to just lurk there in case an item comes along that I may be interested in.
Armory | YouTube | Twitter | Clan Site
There was a guy at Bnet forums just last week complaining about getting perma-banned because his friends RMAH was full @ the 10 auction limit, and his friend gave him the items to sell for him using his account. Something that was really benign, but Blizzard (rightfully so) makes no distinction between severely damaging exploits and very minor circumventions.
BurningRope#1322 (US~HC) Request an invite to the official (NA) <dfans> Clan
Thanks for the link!
I'm not arguing either, just trying to be better informed
So I still feel like I'm not breaking any term:
The limit exists for trades INSIDE blizzards Auction House so I don't see why it should apply to normal trades.
About the second paragraph, I guess you could really stretch it to suggest that I am providing a kind of matchmaking,
but I'm pretty sure that they mean other kinds of matchmaking (actually match people for actual games in bnet).
Normal trading is pretty free in my understanding, there's a section in the official forums:
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/3354991/
And no mention of any limit for item prices !
Sure, but I have absolutely nothing to do with the RMAH
That's playing the Auction House, I only provide a (supercharged) forum for players to arrange trades!
My advice would be to design this in a way that hides the Battletags of your members, as well as your own. Straight do this in ghost mode. Though this very website (Diablofans) allows for person to person trades, though the trades are done in game. So there may be some wiggle room in there for you.
This is the part I'd fully investigate;
Host, provide or develop matchmaking services for the Game
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the issue was that they were using the same paypal address and it was officially resolved on reddit (meaning a blue personally looked into the ticket, resolved the situation, and spoke with the team in regards to this type of situation). Why Ruksak must always insist on being negative I'm not sure. If I trade all my gold to someone in game, have I "circumvented" the 15% sink and thus exploited the game? Sometimes I legitimately can't tell if you just lack critical thinking skills or if you are really just a troll. To be sure, there is definitely a skewed cap value in the Auction Houses: The RMAH @ $250.00 would be much higher than the 2 billion that is limited in the GAH. Likely, we'll see an increase in the GAH cap in the future to directly align with the new RMAH gold rates. I have never seen a cap on in-game trades as far as gold is concerned so I do not see any reason why a place to arrange a trade would be outside of the ToS. The game lacks a deep trading communication medium for people looking for the very very best of gear to find one another and find a way of trading. Unfortunately, that part has to be external at the moment.
In this app, someone puts up an item and people bid on it. The seller is informed of the person who won the trade, then must contact them IN GAME and say "Hey, I see you won the auction in the app.", to which the player respond "Yeah I did, invite me to a game and we'll trade"
The seller invites the buyer to a game (or vice versa) and the buyer trades the seller the gold, while the seller trades the buyer the item.
This is literally NOTHING different then forums that allow two users to meet to trade an item IN GAME.
In no way is this illegal. The same exact thing can be done in game via chat.
lol....c'mon man.
I'm not sure where you got that bit from?
I was quite clear in saying that I thought it was a decent idea in theory, IF it was allowed. I pointed him, as a means of discussion and full disclosure, toward some areas of the ToS that may not allow such a practice.
I was trying to be helpful, and just because I wasn't relaying positive news, it doesn't mean I was trying to be negative.
Blizzard has a line in their ToS that forbids "matchmaking services". Unless I'm comprehending this wrong (and I may be), that sounds like it covers this sort of endeavor.
He asked for feedback, I gave it. I even said I like the idea, it just needs to be fully vetted with against every aspect of the ToS. My concern is any profit the OP might stand to gain from this. Which is unarguably against the ToS.
Make a thread at Bnet and ask them. If they say "no", would you feel bad for being rude to me?
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That sounds like a bit more than "player to player trades" to me. It sounds like an auction house on a 3rd party site which very well may be against the ToS.
The OP has a pretty legit idea, but isn't it worth having people play devil's advocate here? You know, just so that he doesn't do something that he ends up severely regretting? I doubt, if it were somehow legally actionable, that Blizzard would ever respond in any way other than a cease and decist notice.... but it's not my ass on the line and it's easy to get flippant and blase when it's someone else standing before the judge.
In lieu of hiring an actual lawyer to represent him and comb through the fine points of the ToS versus interstate laws, etc. I would think that having skeptics on the forums would at least give him some insights as to what COULD be against the ToS. It's a sight better than sticking your fingers in your ears and thinking everything is OK and then answer a knock at the door and find out it's Blizzard's lawyers come to take your house (ok that's not exactly how it works, but you get my point).
Becuase, let's be honest, this won't go unnoticed by Blizzard for long. The minute they find out about it, all bets are off. As the saying goes: "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." If the OP is serious then he knows the difference between people just hating on him and people trying to look out for him so he doesn't end up on Blizzard's "bad people" list.
What amounts to a 3rd party auction house COULD be construed as a "matchmaking service." In fact, it's highly likely that line in the ToS to prevent exactly that. I see precious other reason (related to D3) why Blizzard would ever need that in their ToS.
It's not though, you can't actually put the item on this app. The item doesn't leave the seller inventory whenever the buyer wins. Literally nothing happens in game at all. This does not take place on the Diablo/Battle.net servers. This in no way has any direct effect/control on Blizzards end.
Here's the rub. Blizzard has a top-shelf legal team that reviews the language in their ToS quite thoroughly.
The term "Matchmaking services" is purposely vague. It's a stop-gap fail-safe measure to ensure that Blizzard can address any service that they may see as a threat to either their games integrity or intellectual properties.
Where this becomes slippery is the fact that if the OP's site becomes popular enough, he can garner advertising dollars from it. Thus, he'd then be running a matchmaking service that is indeed a commercial service. Two violations of the ToS that I posted earlier.
Now, Diablofans has a trade section. Which, by definition, could be fairly termed as a matchmaking service. This website also is a commercial venture.
The difference here is that the Curse network has the expressed permission of Blizzard to operate a trade section.
Exploit the Game or any of its parts for any commercial purpose without Blizzard’s express permission,
Host, provide or develop matchmaking services for the Game
What I'd like to hear is Zero or any other Curse staff member chime in with confirmation that, in fact, they have expressed consent to do so. As well, their opinions on this matter.
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It seems to be. But it's all heavy speculation, from all parties involved here.
Speculation not because it's hard to see the violation to a said rule/text, but because only Blizzard can tell if they would take action against such a website/system (by banning players or explicitly saying the website should be shut down - at most, the OP could have a clear disclaimer of this possibility.).
And if they don't see it as a violation, I don't see why anyone else should.
Then again, I'd suggest that until we see a Blizzard statement on this subject, that we all avoid wasting our times (in my humble opinion) discussing this this is not a "mod rule enforcement", just an advice based on how I see things.