“If for some reason you find yourself at the show with a dead mobile device or some other unexpected issue preventing you from accessing the app, don’t worry. Just head to the Solutions Desk at registration and they’ll help you out.”
My hypothetical unexpected issue : I wasn’t expecting your app to be a piece of garbage.
I honestly don’t know how they handed it on the new forum software.
The old software makes you green on all chars on all forums and your bnet account. So even if you ask a simple question about a game you are just learning, you still show as an MVP. Makes things awkward.
The new software I THINK is more specific they can limit MVPs to being green on the games they support most.
Mine is a bit more odd than average though. I am in 3 MVP programs. Tech/Customer Support, D3, and WoW. It makes it hard to figure out what permissions are specific to me and what apply to others.
Test post to see how permissions work on here.
EDIT - in the new software MVP designation is per character apparently. We are asked to post on one char anyway, so that is not an issue.
That was more honesty than I was expecting, so thank you.
Why are you so certain that Blizzard hasn’t sold personal information?
That is friggin’ terrifying. Didn’t Blizzard learn the hard way about stuff like this with the whole realID debacle way back? My only guess is that this is all part of Blizzard’s war on the OK sign emogi. Gotta know who uses them to stop them.
This just makes me glad I don’t have a phone or go to conventions.
No it would not. It would just make things worse.
Because violating their legal Privacy Policy would get them sued in a heartbeat.
Blizzard will share your personal information with third parties only in the ways that are described in this Privacy Policy. We do not sell your personal information to third parties. We may, however, share non-personally identifiable, aggregated, and/or public information with third parties. Additionally, we may share your game play data, Battletag, Blizzard ID, and/or unique identifiers specific to your device with third parties for the purpose of tailoring content as well as personalizing, adjusting and improving our services. In addition, we may share your personal information with other Activision Blizzard group companies for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
So, I know our phone numbers, address info, names, etc are not sold by Blizz.
I DON’T know how the ticket purchase company works (the required app) though so I don’t know what they will do with the app data. This is why I never purchase things that require my purchase data or info via phone. No, I don’t use Uber or anything else.
How would that make things worse ? They would be forced to change how they are dealing with things.
I’m not really surprised that the insane corporation that banned the ![:ok_hand:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/ok_hand.png?v=6" ":ok_hand:")
for being “white supremacist” (a blatant and hilarious 4chan troll), would stoop to treating their paying customers like members of a Communist Party in 1930’s Germany.
This is some truly scary, Orwellian crap. I urge people to spread the word of this, and either shame Blizzard into dropping it, or getting enough people to drop out that they see a massive dip in profits from this year’s Blizzcon. You can’t go around treating your fans and loyal customers like members of an opposing enemy party during a dictatorship. That is vile. They don’t have a right to my private intel, they aren’t law enforcement.
The fact that this “program” mines even one’s SS number, your email, your credit card number, and every other little personal thing you have, is disgusting. I hope someone with some deep pockets sues the crap out of them.
Probably change in a way that is not to your preference and liking,
I only watch the vids on topics I’m interested in and I imagine others are the same. But he gets hundreds of thousands of views for his videos so he knows his niche.
This isn’t in my preference or liking so what difference would it make. They want people to attend.
All you have written is overly sensationalist and unnecessarily passionate garbage that you have ever spouted to my eyes.
Nothing you say will deter me from my enjoyment of Blizzard products.
Also part of that same section.
“As with any business, your personal information is also an asset of Blizzard and will become part of our normal business records. As such, we may also disclose your personal information to a third party if we decide to sell a line of business to that third party, so you can continue to receive service and information in connection with that line of business with as little disruption as possible. Similarly, in the event of a merger, acquisition, reorganization, bankruptcy, or other similar event, your personal information may be transferred to Blizzard’s successor or assign.”
And since Blizzard and Activision are joined at the hip that means they have our info as well. Within their privacy policy they state
" As set out below in more detail, Activision shares Information:
* with the various Activision group companies for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy;
* with vendors and partners engaged by Activision in order to provide you with goods or services you have requested or online advertising selected by us;
* if required to do so by applicable law, regulation or legal process;
* if necessary to exercise, establish or defend our legal rights;
* if necessary to protect the rights, property or safety of any person; and
* in connection with the sale of our business or assets.
Please note that any information, including personal information that you reveal in a bulletin board, message board, chat room or other public forum is publicly viewable."
So yes, your information can and has been sold off and given away
I dunno, this seems like legalese that specifically covers their butt for the violating the previous sentence.
Then you, Sir, are a blind lemming. In this day and age, where corporations like Twitter, Facebook, or Google oppress and censor people for their political opinions, and work in concert with oppressive governments, pointing out that they are tyrants is a moral imperative.
Just because I enjoy Blizzard’s products, doesn’t make them infallible, nor does it make them immune to being scrutinized or punished by the consumer when they do something perverse and vile like contracting some untrustworthy third party to mine our Social Security Numbers and present locations.
It is. Your name, phone number, and address are technically “public information.”
Most likely the only thing they protect is your credit card information.
And you my friend are a delusional paranoid sycophant who eats up all this rather conspiratorial nonsense.
But in the case of Corporations taking people’s information. You do by creating an account in the first place. Amazon knows my Credit Card information, and my Home Address. And so many others do. This is the price we pay for our daily internet usage. And they will NOT stop doing this. And be thankful that its only Corporations doing this the most and not the Government proper.
Thank you, tovarich.
Maybe you would be happier in a more secure country; like China?
Also that privacy act has more loopholes than a senator’s promise.
Which is how “swatting” tends to happen: some vile little puke uses your “public information” to call a fake hostage situation on someone and a SWAT team gets sent to their private residence, sometimes with lethal consequences. One insane and deplorable individual called a SWAT on a guy for him ganking him in WoW (or maybe it was a shooter like Battlefield), and the SWAT ended up killing an innocent man who wasn’t even the supposed “ganker”.