Blizzard Postpones World of Warcraft 15th Anniversary Event in Taiwan

Re:Blizzard Postpones World of Warcraft 15th Anniversary Eve... by madez on Monday October 21, 2019 @12:35PM (#21314243)

Deleting my account was a revealing relief. Not just your account as in some entry in a database gets deleted including the characters stored on their servers, but also every game you paid for and all the purchase you made inside the games. The shock from the revelation of the control the company had about what I thought I bought made me follow through and free myself from the sunken cost fallacy which was trying to stop me from deleting my account. That was a good lesson for me. I'll never again buy any product, be it a game, software, or hardware that any company can that easily take away from me.

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Re:Blizzard Postpones World of Warcraft 15th Anniversary Eve... by VRay on Monday October 21, 2019 @06:00PM (#21317941)

Amen, brother

Unfortunately I think that pretty much limits us to TuxRacer so far as the gaming space goes

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Re:Blizzard Postpones World of Warcraft 15th Anniversary Eve... by madez on Monday October 21, 2019 @06:13PM (#21318077)

Thanks for the support.

We have more than Tux Racer. There are a lot of games without DRM and with full offline single-game experience, like for example the excellent Factorio. Factorio isn't without issues either, because it isn't free software. It is only released as a x86-64 binary, so when I get rid of my x86-64 desktop and switch to then hopefully RISC-V or POWER, I won't be able to run Factorio. Still, this is much better than anything Activision Blizzard offers. There are many other games like that.

Also, for many consoles the software works in emulators and are outside of the control of any company.

Yet, we need free software. There is no way around it.

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