having purchased Diablo 2/diablo 2 expansion cd’s from walmart back in the day then going on line to enter the then 16 character cd’s keys I did my law prove I bought and paid for the games. Yet my account now does not show the games in my games and subscriptions. I played the games on line tell the powers that be changed the operational systems in the newer pc computers then the game simply stopped working . I found that they now have supported versions of these games as also warcraft orc’s and humans, warcraft 2 tides of darkness and beyond the dark portal all games i bought and paid for and still have the cd’s for then now have been updated to work on windows ten but they want me to pay again for the game’s I already bought.
In reality we only lease the right to play Blizzard games as third partys can al any time make it so we can no longer play the games by changing a couple lines of code. graphic cards for one company’s only supporting cards for a year insures you having to keep buying expensive graphic cards with extremely limited support dates.
case in point world of warcraft having been locked out of my game for unsupported graphics card I bought a 900 dollar gaming pc from BestBuy making sure it was compatible with world of warcraft. I bought the next expansion and 6 months server time only to be locked out of the game when the new expansion hit seems bestbuy sold me a gaming pc with a expired non supported graphics card 3 ea 29.00 non refundable server time cards the 80 dollar expansion i never got to play and over 1000 dollars for the cyberpower gaming pc.
So do I continue to buy i mean lease any more games from Blizzard/microsoft? I have stacks of worthless cd’s entering license keys only works until they delete the proof there is no where to enter my 16 character cd keys on battlenet. I have a 20 character license key for diablo but there is no where to enter it so I can down load the supported windows 10 friendly version. I can pay a licensing fee to down load all of the above games starting at 6 dollars for orc’s and humans 10, 20, 40 dollars to play then games I already bought yes bought I have the cds. these new leasing fees only lets me play them tell they decide to no longer support them most likely when window 12 comes out.
Just more reason to not play Blazzard games any more I can’t afford to keep buying the licensing fee’s buying new graphics cards and expensive nonrefundable server time.