Is that illegal? That seems illegal.
If it’s not, it definitely should be illegal.
Add time to one of your RAF accounts
Delete it
Postly smugly on the GD board how you are raising awareness and helping by…deleting an account for a video game?
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yeah I must have read some incorrect information on this form because I’m pretty sure that about a year ago the same topic came up about deleting accounts over some thing that we were all supposed to be outraged about back then and somebody said that there was no way to actually physically delete our accounts as a safety precaution to keep it from accidentally being deleted I think. But don’t quote me on that
Probably to prevent account stealers from deleting the accounts of people whose account they have hacked into.
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Should do that any way if you want to be consistent in your outrage, since your electronics were probably all made in China. Just take a sledgehammer to your computer, keyboard, mouse and iPhone while you’re at it. Problem solved.
Savage. Brutal. Vicious. There are not enough words to give justice to this reply.
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Server size label is relative, from Blizz’s own mouth. All that tells you is approximately how many people are currently on compared to the likes of Hyjal/Proudmoore etc.
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/medium-pop-still-has-login-queue/271551/10
If a mass exodus was roughly evenly spread, the server labels wouldn’t budge no matter how stark it was.
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Yeah, that’s the reason they gave me when I asked them to delete my old vanilla-thru-Cata one. Had to give them one of my old CD keys to confirm, and was able to give them the old pre-battlenet account name too.
I am simply nothing but supportive and I truly believe that anything is possible, given enough willpower, gumption, and ignorance.
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Possibly to avoid ‘outrage remorse’
This is outrage now, and people are getting angry now. In a week or two it will be old news that hardly anyone cares about aside from the die hard fool who wants to try to keep the outrage fires lit.
The current ‘outrage machine’ is encouraging folks to delete their accounts. Not uninstall the games, not cancel subscriptions, but delete accounts. When that happens it’s permanent. No records of your account are kept, it will be as if your account never existed and it will NOT be recoverable in any way.
What this means is that if you decide to delete because you’re currently steamed, but then you come back later with a calm head and want to play again you have to start over. You will need to buy all your games again, and any progress you made will be gone, including any rare collectables that you can’t get anymore.
So with that in mind I am not surprised that they’ve blocked that functionality, so that they don’t have to bother with a bunch of immature whingers coming back and complaining that ‘their accounts are gone and Blizzard won’t restore them’.
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They can be permanently disassociated with you but it’s a long, involved process - specifically so that they are absolutely sure that you’re absolutely sure that you’ll never, ever, not even a little bit want that account back.
Otherwise they’d just be inundated with “oh I accidentally deleted my account again lol please bring it back”.
Well that is one way to free up those names that people want on servers.
Or as I like to say, “Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.”
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This reminds me of the time I discovered that inflammable didn’t mean what I think it meant.
Perhaps a better term here is ‘effort retardant’.
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I unsubbed, but I’m not deleting my account. If I delete my account, I can’t post here and encourage you all to unsubscribe.
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It’s not illegal. Deletion prob can’t be reversed or easily done so they make you wait. Just uninstall and cancel sub. I do that every so often to play other things.
You never had this ability. You always had to contact CS to do it for you. It’s not a switch you can just flip.
did all those things and i am deleting battlenet account as well.
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When was Blizzard ever sold?
Indirectly, via the Vivendi/Activision merger.
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