Making friends and influencing people

Looks like Blizzard/Activision has done it again, and found yet another way to annoy/piss off/infuriate their paying customers. Buying Diablo 3 as a digital download apparently gives you only limited access to the game for the first 72 hours. The Internets are not happy. Check out the Internet tough guys letting their voices be heard on two NON-Blizzard sites. (PS: These are NOT anti-Blizzard websites, but a web-comic site about video games and a tech site which reviews games. These sites are usually mostly positive or neutral to Blizzard.)

GU Comics forums.

Ars Technica post with comments.

I think the whole Real Money Auction House ‘feature’ has been bad for Blizzards reputation so far. I’m not playing the game (to expensive for how much I’d play it right now) but those that WANTED to love the game seem to be getting pissed off at all the stuff they are having to endure for what is essentially a single player game.

Blizzard Fail

I honestly don’t think I can facepalm hard enough for this amount of fail from Blizzard. This is from their forums:

Nitrinea: I am able to log into D3 even if I change the case on some of the letters in my password. This should be fixed.

Vasadan(Blizzard Rep:Blue Post): This is actually consistent with all of our Blizzard games. Try it in WoW and SC2 :)

I’ll be amazed if someone doesn’t sue them over this. And the news is getting out all over. I’m not currently playing ANY Blizzard games and I still ran across this just looking around my usual haunts on the intertubes.