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

[Malekyth]

there is no shower scene footage of me out there anywhere.

Have you checked the entire internet?

I just merged my accounts as a result of reading this thread. Figured I have to do it eventually anyway, I can make no appeal and it does not matter how I feel about it (completely neutral, since you asked), so might as well. Done. I shoulda done it sooner and increased my vanity pet count by 1!

[kadaan]

Few things here.
Anyone remember AC (Asheron's Call) and when MS made us all join MS passport? Ya no fun . We had to go though their site to get to "our" game every time we logged in. If our servers (our game) was down we couldn't play. Then on top of that if MS Passport was down we couldn't play.

(I did read your entire post, but I believe on the internet it's cooler to say "I stopped reading here" or "TL;DR")

I think your opening paragraph is the key to why you dislike the forced merger. It's not "OUR" game. It's THEIR game. We pay a monthly fee to play their game. They can do whatever they want to it, and if they end up doing something that we don't like we simply stop paying to play their game.

[shaeman]

I've heard that battle.net is going to require genetic material at every login... no more blizzard authenticators, and it ensures that only those related to you gain access under the sibling rule.

But it's blatantly an evil plan to clone you, replace you and therefore grab all your money instead of just the measly sums we are currently giving them.

Now - if you could just reach round the back and undo the buckles on my jacket I can tell you the rest of their evil alien plans.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Sums up my take on the situation nicely.

[Khatovar]

Have you checked the entire internet?

Yeah. Contrary to popular belief, we ladies don't shower like porn stars. If they had any, they would have been rather disappointed and bored.

[alcattle]

Yeah. Contrary to popular belief, we ladies don't shower like porn stars. If they had any, they would have been rather disappointed and bored.

so no soap and water, sounds kinky

[HPAVC]

I like and look forward to the proposed battlenet changes and the current features of the account maint with authenticator are worth it for me right now.

What displeases me about Wow currently is that its near coin-op play with its 1990s era BBS chat and no real sense of who the fuck we are playing the game with. This cause a lot of headaches and some small tweaks could make the wow experiece a lot better. Hopefully a more robust social system will bring the nitche compatible people out of the servers we are on.

[d0z3rr]

Hopefully a more robust social system will bring the nitche compatible people out of the servers we are on.

Entirely useless to me. I could care less about the 15 year old driveling idiot on the other end of that Nightelf Huntard, or his cool "Facebook like" page on bnet. I multibox WoW to avoid any mingling with a bunch of dimwits.

[Starbuck_Jones]

I agree with fursphere, Nothing is private and if you think it is your wrong.

Things I do not like about the forced battlenet merge is first the 8 game limit. So each time I fireup a couple of RAF accounts im going to need a new bnet account for them because im not going to put throw away accounts on my main bnet account. There just wont be room with 5 wows' D3 and SC2

Second, I find the Bnet log in to be significantly less secure than the old log in. Previously I had 5+ unique log ins. now its just an email address. I did fire up a new email account just for bnet because to use your normal one is just asking to get your stuff stolen. Get an authenticator you say? See below about selling you something you shouldn't need to begin with.

As for the rest, data is power. Yea they already are tracking all of your blizzard habits and prolly are using that data to sell you something or sell the data to someone else to sell you something or offer you free trials, hoping you will buy it to get your money. Capitalism at its best!

[Lyonheart]

As long as Bliz doesn't hack into my porn account! I pay hard earned cash to support the hard working men and women of the porn industry!

All kidding aside>>I love Bnet! One Grunty code=bad ass marine murlock pets on ALL of my accounts! Thank you Blizzard!