9mo ago

Blizzard locks you out of account if you don't agree to new terms; no ownership, forced arbitration

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Hopefully the lesson people are slowly learning is to walk away from these systems.
- It's not that easy. My Blizzard account is over 10 years old - never thought they'd go down hill so much. What's the solution, to never create accounts online anywhere? Even if a service looks good and you support it, a corporation like Activision can come along and have their asshole CEO infect everything.
  Walking away from my account now means throwing away a lot of money spent on it.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost
  a sunk cost is a sum paid in the past that is no longer relevant to decisions about the future.
  
  So due to sunk cost the better choice is to continue supporting bad behavior?
  
  For me, not continue to support but use what I've paid for and not put any more money into it
  
  I'm not supporting them, I haven't bought anything from Blizzard since the last Protoss SC2 game ages ago. But I don't want to lose access to my games.
  
  I played Vanilla WoW a week after launch and was with it all the way up through ~~Cataclysm~~ Mists. After hearing about the multiple shocking incidences of sexual harassment and gender discrimination at Blizzard and upper management's unwillingness to stop it, it was quite easy to delete my Battle.net account and walk away. (Yeah I hadn't played in a while, but I'd intended to come back eventually.)
  There are plenty of other games out there. You vote with your dollars, and your vote shows your character.
  
  What’s the solution, to never create accounts online anywhere?
  Yes. I buy all my games either as physical releases on consoles or DRM-free on PC. If a game requires an account to play, I won't play it.
  
  Fuck people who want to play matchmade competitive games I guess
  
  Competitive games were once upon a time p2p 🥲 now we have single player games that demand networking.
  
  they are all ill moderated and implemented anyway. competitive gaming is a cancer on the gaming community.
  
  idk, I've had some great experiences with competitive gaming, I don't think generalizing it all as a cancer is reasonable.
  
  I walked away from my account with the Hong Kong stuff after spending an uncomfortable amount on Overwatch. Every decision they've made since then has made writing it off easier. I still have my Starcraft and Brood War discs, I enjoyed my time with WoW, but I don't see a reality where I turn back to Blizzard without huge internal changes.
  
  I was playing WoW since 2005, just have to walk away. I left the game, and all Blizzard products, as they have just gone to absolute garbage.
  There are better games out there.
  
  It's no solution but the takeaway is this is always a possibility and maybe even inevitable.
- This is what a vocal minority have been saying for years, but no one cares.
- Don't use McDonalds or TB app anymore. Praying Dunkin don't pull this bs. Every few times I go to McDs and they ask I wanna respond, "no cause forced arbitration is dumb for just a hamburger"
  
  And the cashier would have no fucking clue 😂

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