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I deleted my account on their service over this, and I know so did others. There was more spoken than just English.

by madez 7y ago

cm2012 7y ago
Yeah, my wife and I used to spend $500* per year on Blizzard stuff. We cancelled everything when the news came out. *Two WoW subscriptions + me buying Hearthstone cards.
- madez 7y ago
  Deleting my account was a revealing relief. Not just your account as in some entry in a database gets deleted including the characters stored on their servers, but also every game you paid for and all the purchase you made inside the games. The shock from the revelation of the control the company had about what I thought I bought made me follow through and free myself from the sunken cost fallacy which was trying to stop me from deleting my account. That was a good lesson for me. I'll never again buy any product, be it a game, software, or hardware that any company can that easily take away from me.
  - VRay 7y ago
    Amen, brother Unfortunately I think that pretty much limits us to TuxRacer so far as the gaming space goes
    - madez 7y ago
      Thanks for the support. We have more than Tux Racer. There are a lot of games without DRM and with full offline single-game experience, like for example the excellent Factorio. Factorio isn't without issues either, because it isn't free software. It is only released as a x86-64 binary, so when I get rid of my x86-64 desktop and switch to then hopefully RISC-V or POWER, I won't be able to run Factorio. Still, this is much better than anything Activision Blizzard offers. There are many other games like that. Also, for many consoles the software works in emulators and are outside of the control of any company. Yet, we need free software. There is no way around it.
Hamuko 7y ago
I've seen a lot of people post how they were unable to delete their accounts due to what seemed like obstruction on Blizzard's end.
- LegitShady 7y ago
  It was a hassle. If you didn't have two factor set your sucked.

I deleted my account on their service over this, and I know so did others. There was more spoken than just English.

by madez 7y ago

I deleted my account on their service over this, and I know so did others. There was more spoken than just English.

cm2012 7y ago

Yeah, my wife and I used to spend $500* per year on Blizzard stuff. We cancelled everything when the news came out. *Two WoW subscriptions + me buying Hearthstone cards.

madez 7y ago
Deleting my account was a revealing relief. Not just your account as in some entry in a database gets deleted including the characters stored on their servers, but also every game you paid for and all the purchase you made inside the games. The shock from the revelation of the control the company had about what I thought I bought made me follow through and free myself from the sunken cost fallacy which was trying to stop me from deleting my account. That was a good lesson for me. I'll never again buy any product, be it a game, software, or hardware that any company can that easily take away from me.
- VRay 7y ago
  Amen, brother Unfortunately I think that pretty much limits us to TuxRacer so far as the gaming space goes
  - madez 7y ago
    Thanks for the support. We have more than Tux Racer. There are a lot of games without DRM and with full offline single-game experience, like for example the excellent Factorio. Factorio isn't without issues either, because it isn't free software. It is only released as a x86-64 binary, so when I get rid of my x86-64 desktop and switch to then hopefully RISC-V or POWER, I won't be able to run Factorio. Still, this is much better than anything Activision Blizzard offers. There are many other games like that. Also, for many consoles the software works in emulators and are outside of the control of any company. Yet, we need free software. There is no way around it.

Hamuko 7y ago

I've seen a lot of people post how they were unable to delete their accounts due to what seemed like obstruction on Blizzard's end.

LegitShady 7y ago
It was a hassle. If you didn't have two factor set your sucked.