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Except blizzard has a huge pobpem with stolen accounts. This is one way in which they fight that. Yes it's annoying, but people sink thousands of hours into the

Except blizzard has a huge pobpem with stolen accounts. This is one way in which they fight that. Yes it's annoying, but people sink thousands of hours into their games and are generally ok with the inconvenience if it means their account is more secure. For someone like you it may not make sense, but you're not the user they instituted these policies for. And blizzard gets crap _constantly_ from their user base, you just don't see it because you're not on those forums.

darklajid 9y ago
I am on those forums. How does this protect me (or more likely: them)? I disable 2FA (..), give you my credentials or you brute force them: You own my account. How's that related with "I moved"? And why would you ever. ever. ever give a random company your government ID? Facebook to unblock your account? Hell no! Google Plus for the same reason? Certainly not and never. Blizzard because you changed the place you live outside of their digital universe? Of course not! They can ask me questions about games I played, purchase dates of the games I own, can send me verification mails, can use the 2FA they support, can look at my login history (hey, how funny: I logged into my Blizzard account from a SG IP, even before I made the purchase). No, they should NEVER ask for my address or my government ID. The former would be okay if they want to send me swag and should still be optional. Blizzard's insane here, defending them is kinda weird. Would you send your ID to Google, Facebook or .... EA? If you nod reading all of this, fine. We're just not able to agree here. If you shake your head but think that it's different for the people that allow you to explode sheep by repeatedly clicking them..: Can you make sure that you're not biased?
- EpicEng 9y ago
  Your government issued ID is no secret and it doesn't contain any information I couldn't easily get elsewhere if I really wanted to. You hand it over to people all of the time for trivial things. If your account is locked due to suspicious activity (as it was in your case) then Blizzard's only options are to A) just allow it (your account is gone) or B) make you verify that you are who you say you are. I don't think B is unreasonable. And you didn't just 'move'; you moved _countries_. I didn't get locked out when I moved from CA to TX, but moving countries isn't all that common and they only have so much contextual information with which to make a decision. >I am on those forums Then you should already know Blizzard takes grief for this and many other things all of the time. https://www.google.com/search?q=why+does+blizzard+wnat+my+id&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS707US707&oq=why+does+blizzard+wnat+my+id&aqs=chrome..69i57.3903j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 https://www.google.com/search?q=why+does+blizzard+wnat+my+id...

darklajid 9y ago

I am on those forums. How does this protect me (or more likely: them)? I disable 2FA (..), give you my credentials or you brute force them: You own my account. How's that related with "I moved"? And why would you ever. ever. ever give a random company your government ID? Facebook to unblock your account? Hell no! Google Plus for the same reason? Certainly not and never. Blizzard because you changed the place you live outside of their digital universe? Of course not! They can ask me questions about games I played, purchase dates of the games I own, can send me verification mails, can use the 2FA they support, can look at my login history (hey, how funny: I logged into my Blizzard account from a SG IP, even before I made the purchase). No, they should NEVER ask for my address or my government ID. The former would be okay if they want to send me swag and should still be optional. Blizzard's insane here, defending them is kinda weird. Would you send your ID to Google, Facebook or .... EA? If you nod reading all of this, fine. We're just not able to agree here. If you shake your head but think that it's different for the people that allow you to explode sheep by repeatedly clicking them..: Can you make sure that you're not biased?

EpicEng 9y ago
Your government issued ID is no secret and it doesn't contain any information I couldn't easily get elsewhere if I really wanted to. You hand it over to people all of the time for trivial things. If your account is locked due to suspicious activity (as it was in your case) then Blizzard's only options are to A) just allow it (your account is gone) or B) make you verify that you are who you say you are. I don't think B is unreasonable. And you didn't just 'move'; you moved _countries_. I didn't get locked out when I moved from CA to TX, but moving countries isn't all that common and they only have so much contextual information with which to make a decision. >I am on those forums Then you should already know Blizzard takes grief for this and many other things all of the time. https://www.google.com/search?q=why+does+blizzard+wnat+my+id&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS707US707&oq=why+does+blizzard+wnat+my+id&aqs=chrome..69i57.3903j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 https://www.google.com/search?q=why+does+blizzard+wnat+my+id...