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

submitted 8 months ago by Clbull@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Does Blizzard even make any single-purchase games that require a Blizzard account? WoW is a subscription, Overwatch is free-to-play, I doubt the old Starcraft games require accounts, and I don't know much about Diablo.

[–] russjr08@bitforged.space 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Diablo is indeed a single purchase game (with tons of MTX and soon to be DLC of course, but the base game is a single purchase).

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee -2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

So no, it's only subscription games that would be affected? So you just can't use the service in the future, they're not locking anyone out of a purchased product.

[–] russjr08@bitforged.space 3 points 8 months ago

Diablo (at least 3 - excluding the console versions and 4, not sure about the older ones) is an online-only game, if they're locking you out of your account, then you will not be able to authenticate to the game server and thus won't be able to play.