I tried submitting a trouble ticket about this to try and get it seen, but apparently Customer Service doesn’t talk to developers and suggested I post on the forums. So.
Stop sending me Rumble Promotions through in-game mail.
If I was going to play Warcraft Rumble before, I’ve decided that I will NEVER play it now, out of pure spite and frustration. If it was one message on every character, or even a weekly message on my highest level character I might not mind it. But it has become a consistent nuisance at this point. I did the first quest for the chain to get the mail to stop, and then a few days later it continued again.
So now I refuse. I refuse to do this stupid quest and I refuse to even TOUCH Warcraft Rumble, because Blizzard decided that instead of promoting it through the launcher, or through one-time things, they decided to send LITERAL spam mail through the in-game mailing system, knowing that we have no way to reliably block or filter it like we could through email.
So, I am ONCE AGAIN imploring you, Blizzard: STOP SENDING US MAIL FOR RUMBLE. If it was a player or a gold farming bot, they would have been suspended for spam by now.
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And people wonder why ticket times balloon out.
Just ignore it and move on with your life.
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You will get Ads about your favorite game developers newest game and you will like it!
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I agree, the constant mails on every single toon are really annoying.
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This thread was brought to you by…
ARCLIGHT RUMBLE!!!
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i just logged onto my druid for the first time in like a week and had 5 identical mails from mizzen…
like… this is too much.
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Arclight Rumble brought to you by
RAID SHADOW LEGENDS!
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Exactly - it really is just absurd. It would be one thing if it was an occasional reminder like yeah okay that’s a bit annoying. But this is such AGGRESSIVE spam that I’d call it just shy of widespread harrassment. Especially since it’s character by character. I’m not going to pick up the quest and go hunt down the token on every single character. Even if I narrowed it down to the characters I regularly log onto that’s too many times.
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I have a pack of alts and the mail spam from Rumble is relentless, and on at least two characters I can’t get it to go away. I get less aggressive advertising from Twitch streams.
I didn’t care about Rumble before in-game adverts started and I actively detest it now.
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you should try wc rumble. its a nice first 2 hours of fun initially until you hit a difficulty paywall like candy crush and you just play 15 min a day for the dailies and weeklies.
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Wow that sounds amazing! Let me download it right now! I love soulless paywalled phone games that don’t even attempt to cover the fact that they’re a shill!
Lmao
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I dont think its that souless. It actually kinda fun, just dont pvp too much in that game lol.
I mean, I personally hate phone games to begin with, so I’m not totally unbiased here. But at this point I refuse to reward Blizzard for their incredibly aggressive and annoying advertising strategy. I want them to see that badgering players constantly with their phone games instead of devoting dev resources to the games we WANT to play is actively detrimental to their business.
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Do you know there’s actually an in-game quest to unlock in-game collectibles related to a Rumble machine they added to the Valdrakken inn? It’s not just ads for a separate game but a neat tethering between the two–a game (reference) within a game. Somewhat refreshing to see for me, and I’m a fatalist boomer.
Also, this is nothing new. Unless we forget the Hydralisk in Warcraft III, among other self-promo easter eggs Blizzard has been injecting into their games for decades. Even the lost viking NPCs are on brand.
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careful what you wish for. next thing you know we’re getting ads for skillshare or warthunder
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Rules only apply to us not to them. We may get banned for spam but they have diplomatic immunity. They can spam our mailbox’s till it becomes twice the size of MT. Everest.
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Well two can play at that game. Let’s have everyone spam Mizzen’s mailbox. He can’t ignore us all!
I am THOROUGHLY aware of the in-game quest, because I’ve deleted about 20 of the quest starter items.
I don’t mind a reference or tether, like the Diablo III loot goblin promo event, that was kinda fun. I don’t mind having little mini diablo pets, or Warcraft III meat wagons in WoW, or Hydralisks in Warcraft III. Those fun little self promo easter eggs are fun. What’s not fun is this aggressive spamming. That’s what I take issue with.
Would it be easy to just complete the quests on my mains to get Mizzen to stop sending me letters? Yeah, probably. But there are many hills I’m willing to die on, and this is rapidly becoming one of them. Because are they gonna stop here? I’m not confident they will. I think they’ll do anything to squeeze just a couple more bucks out of the players and push their stupid little gimmick phone games on us.
They promised that Trader’s Tender wouldn’t be sold wholesale in the store, and then they added it to “packs” in the store, while not allowing us to grind past a certain amount each month - meaning that if you want to collect the maximum number of items, you need to shell out real money. They’ve been using really shady business practices to squeeze players for a while, and in my mind - call me crazy - this in game mail spam is yet another escalation of it. If we don’t put our collective foot down and let them know in no uncertain terms that we’re not cool with this, they’re gonna keep getting worse, because they’re gonna keep getting away with it and they’re gonna keep claiming it works.
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Hard agree OP. It’s so distasteful to this degree. Nobody plays mobile games in NA. (Or very few) why don’t you spam EU/ or CN with that crap instead.
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Blizzard pushes spam and popups on their users which goes against their EULA, kinda funny really. Think there was some sort of big thing about them being big into breaking laws…
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