Forced to Battle.net: My thoughts (long read)

[Multibocks]

Fosho!

[Perrigrin]

"The truth is out there"!

[DrChaos]

I also created a new email account just for battle.net. They can sell, trade, publish, send all the spam they want to that email. Its just a single keystroke of deletion away.

[Diwa]

I wonder what will happen if the Authenticator fails. Million lawsuits will put Blizzard out of business.

[kadaan]

I wonder what will happen if the Authenticator fails. Million lawsuits will put Blizzard out of business.

?

- You don't need to buy an authenticator if you have a battle.net account.
- You could file a lawsuit, but Blizzard would just laugh at you? If Blizzard decided to shut down their servers today, you couldn't sue them for anything. Best-case you could file a charge-back on your CC for the monthly fee, but even that's iffy.
- The authenticator is by Vasco, not Blizzard.

[Diwa]

?

- You don't need to buy an authenticator if you have a battle.net account.
- You could file a lawsuit, but Blizzard would just laugh at you? If Blizzard decided to shut down their servers today, you couldn't sue them for anything. Best-case you could file a charge-back on your CC for the monthly fee, but even that's iffy.
- The authenticator is by Vasco, not Blizzard.

I'm thinking if it fails to everybody who has it.
I don't need an authenticator if I have Battle.net Account? How come?

[kadaan]

The authenticator is a 3rd party product, and not related to a battle.net account.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

I'm thinking if it fails to everybody who has it.
I don't need an authenticator if I have Battle.net Account? How come?

What he was trying to say was that the authenticator isn't a Blizzard product, so any lawsuits would be filed against the manufacturer, not blizzard.

[Diwa]

Ahh gocha and the one in Iphone/Ipod does

[Tonuss]

A lawsuit against Blizzard for the failure of a security device would probably be thrown out. You need to prove damages, and aside from your monthly fee it's unlikely that you'd convince a court or jury that you suffered damages due to the inability to log in to a video game. I'm thinking that there aren't many lawyers who would take a case on the hopes of winning $15 for his client, unless he was working at an hourly rate. In which case you're paying $150-to-$400 an hour to get back $15.