OW2 isn't what I bought

[DABfist-1258]

im glad you could finally understand the point of the thread and source of the frustration.

[BigPepega-2871]

The source of frustration is called inflated expectations and false perception of that game or devs owe you anything or that you actually bought something that you could demand the refund. The most stupid claim on this forum, ngl. Gimme money back it is not what I bought!

@DocHoliday-1639

Please contact me with my refund

KEKW.

When did you buy it, can you even remember the date, lol? Do you even know what have you bought? You didn’t owe anything to demand the refund, basically. And even if you could, how dare you after the amount of positive experience you got. Just move on, stop making essays rocking non-existent rights.

[Conspiracy-21211]

I would also like some financial compensation for this.

[Nightpire-2804]

@Saphelii-1738

Games will eventually shut down. That’s an inevitable fact of life. Sometime in the future Overwatch 2, CS:GO, Apex Legends, Valorant, League of Legends, all of these games will shut down. And when they shut down the developers of those games will owe us, as players, nothing. We got multiple years out of those games, infinitely more entertainment value than any other form of entertainment in existence and for an extremely cheap price.

Realize that and prepare for it, because many online games have shut down already and more will shut down in the years to come.

That’s not what blizzard usually did. You can still go and play diablo2, broodwar or warcraft3 and these games are over 20 years old now. This was one of the positive aspects about the company. They didn’t shutdown diablo2 when diablo3 came out. And it’s also a technical decision. TF2 and like your example CSGO don’t need Valve to keep running. Dedicated servers can be hosted by players themselves. Warcraft3’s community made their own server client with W3Champions that had even better ping than battle net. The idea to rather shutdown a game and nobody playing comparerd to some players playing on their own servers without making profits is corporate thinking that hurts them in the long run.

@Saphelii-1738

You owned a license to play the game, and you owned the physical contents of the box. But your access to any online functionality, even back then, could be revoked in an instant and you legally recognized that when you agreed to various Terms of Services or End User License Agreements.

You are right about using their servers, but not the right to play online at all.

I also want to add that absolute removal of games in the digital age are a crime. So people in 10 years can only look back at OW1 through youtube videos, because it’s impossible to play now? That’s terrible. Preservation of games is important. Blizzard themselves did a great example with WoW Classic and people loved it and the old game is now always there on a server if someone wants to play.