Goodbye, WoW
July 9th, 2010 at 2:38Edit: It looks like my next blog post is going to be significantly different. Give me some time to rearrange my thoughts.
General Reason: Poor Support
Specific Reason: Representatives didn’t seem to care about me or my problem.
Additional Comments:
You don’t have a category for the upcoming RealID forum change, so I’m putting mine here. If you read this, this is my way of letting you know that forcing real names in a video game is not acceptable. Someone has to take a stand and say NO. We do not want our game to become facebook. We do not want to risk our friends and family’s safety just to get tech support. I personally hate my legal name and don’t ever want to see it associated with me if I can help it. I used my real name when I signed up for my WoW account because I was assured that it would not be revealed to anyone. I don’t think you have the right to decide that my real name is no longer personal information. My facebook account does not use my real name, because I knew when I was creating it that everyone would be able to see that name. But I cannot change the name on my battle.net account to my preferred pseudonym without supplying documentation that it is my legal name? I was really looking forward to Cataclysm ever since I saw it unveiled at Blizzcon last year, but if this upcoming forum change goes live, I will not be resubscribing. I don’t care how awesome the next expansion is. Good luck with your social experiment. It will at least be interesting to watch.
I’ll be posting more thoughts on this tomorrow, or whenever I get around to organizing them into something coherent. The gist of it is, my prot pally partner and I have both unsubscribed from WoW tonight as a direct result of the RealID announcement, and if it is not rescinded, we will not be coming back for Cataclysm.
Edited to add:
Actually, we would have canceled tonight, except that the cancel account page isn’t actually working right now. A pity, because my next recurring subscription happens in about two hours.
Edited again 9:52 AM on 7/9:
Yay! It finally got through — and they haven’t billed me yet! Goodbye WoW, possibly forever. Cataclysm was sounding AMAZINGLY awesome… but I’m not going to let my addiction to this game override my principles.
July 9th, 2010 at 4:01 am
I find WoW boring now. Im finally done with it after a 6 year or so love hate affair. Been clean since Feb.!
July 9th, 2010 at 11:40 am
I cancelled the day I hear about the change. I’m definitely not happy with this move. Will I come back? I seriously doubt it, since for myself it tells me what Blizzard is willing to do certain things without considering their audience. I simply don’t trust Blizz. I’m sure there are other goodies that Blizz has cooked up that will be eventually sprung upon their subscribers?
Over the past few days, I’ve read several websites, lots are talking about this. Initially, I was surprised with the amount that said they had cancelled their subscriptions, however, the ones that really shocked me were those who didn’t like the change at all but were staying? Wait what… I would think the way to show how much you are opposed to the change is to stop using what you dislike? I think Blizzard is counting on that. They’re taking their customers for granted. Sure some will be upset, but I believe Blizzard thinks that no matter how upset the customers gets the majority will stay and take it. Sorry Blizz, I’m not the one of them, subscription cancelled!
I met a lot of great folks in game, and although I’ve left, I’ll still connect with some outside of WoW.