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8ed39c No.16436146
So Blizzard has decided that last year's Blizzcon wasn't bad enough and has decided to one-up that whole "Do you not have phones?" fiasco with this little announcement. To those attending Blizzcon 2019, they are now required to install the AXS Mobile app on their smartphone when visiting the convention, which tracks:
>First Name
>Last Name
>Precise Location (as determined by GPS, WiFi and other means)
>How often the app is used
>What content is viewed through the app
>What ads are clicked
>What purchases are made or not made
>The user's personal advertising identifier
>IP Address
>Operating System
>Device Make and Model
>Billing Address
>Credit Card Number
>Security Code
>Mailing Address
>Phone Number
>Email Address
And guess where all that info is going? Places like Kikebook, Google and the Alphabet companies, and other third party anonymous (((clients))) along with many many others. So yes, they have decided that if you don't indeed have a cellphone then you are not welcome there. The video will go into more detail, but this is already turning into a shitshow.
2b757e No.16436160
>>16436146
>Billing Address
>Credit Card Number
>Security Code
This has to be illegal.
7b95e5 No.16436175
>>16436160
Through the magic of contracts and sheep voluntarily agreeing to said contracts, it's legal.
dc9e19 No.16436177
>>16436146
>Quarterpounder
698e74 No.16436190
>>16436146
What if they don't have a phone? what are they just going to refuse them entry?
>Billing Address
>Credit Card Number
>Security Code
>Mailing Address
>Phone Number
>Email Address
What fucking reason could they want these?
7ac349 No.16436191
>>16436146
Based chinks. How do the goyim keep falling for this shit?
3ee8df No.16436192
>>16436175
Just because you sign a contract, doesn't make it absolutely binding. A judge can shoot down and void any contract if they feel it is unfair.
8ed39c No.16436196
>>16436177
Dubs don't lie, but he's one of the few actually talking about it and explains it well enough so that even sheep can understand the issue.
3f6d5e No.16436208
Just watch. Next convention you need chip implants.
6b3c55 No.16436210
1e503f No.16436217
>>16436146
I hope blizzard dies soon.
31e8f0 No.16436237
>(((Jeremy Hambeast)))
>the Quarterpounder beaten by a fucking tranny at gencon
lmao
b0075e No.16436241
>>16436196
>even sheep can understand the issue
It's not a question of understanding;sheep are sheep,even if they understand their nature won't change.
02eb44 No.16436256
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>>16436190
>What fucking reason could they want these?
Companies collect whatever they can get their hands on. They don't really care about what they get, data is cheap and it might come in handy in the future, so they collect as much as possible.
f5ebc3 No.16436319
>>16436208
Next convention you have to become a Chinese citizen with an upstanding social credit score.
3714bf No.16436320
Might as well just make it employee only at this point like the E3 press conferences.
1175b3 No.16436335
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>DO YOU GUYS NOT HAVE PHONES?
>they actually have to have them now
Now this is gold.
3714bf No.16436340
>>16436326
It's real. Now whether or not they follow through or pull the old fashion "look goy, we aren't fucking you quite as hard now! we're good again!" bullshit who knows.
51d064 No.16436361
>>16436340
Like what the entire video game industry does? Blizzard wants to kill themselves with this.
2da285 No.16436374
>>16436160
It's not.
>Invasion of Privacy Law broken.
>Fraud.
and that's only what I can think of the top of my head, they've no doubt broken quite a few more laws too.
Honestly, I'm getting real tired of people letting this company get away with shit just because they hold a monopoly on Nostalgia. If someone gets the balls to sue this company for this shit then the company will be fucked.
3714bf No.16436383
>>16436374
Well it wasn't that long ago the head kike bailed out so maybe there is a suit in the works he caught wind of.
2b67b8 No.16436388
>>16436146
>quarterpounder
This isn't surprising considering blizzard employees literally work with the Chinese very closely
cddc6a No.16436440
>>16436190
>What if they don't have a phone? what are they just going to refuse them entry?
Yep. Apparently the "app" is the pass you use to get in and around the place. Like those NFC bracelets you use at amusement parks, but with much more personal data to harvest.
>>16436217
It's been a while since I've seen a good tapestry.
d6da45 No.16436482
>>16436146
>Quarterpounder
d6da45 No.16436490
>>16436190
>What fucking reason could they want these?
To sell their private informations to other companies.
Also it's Blizzard so they want to ID everyone so it's easier for them to ban "toxic" people from the convention and their services at the same time. It's all about controlling people.
31d69c No.16436499
>>16436160
>This has to be illegal.
It's not a matter of being legal or not, rather it's about people accepting this shit and thus letting them get away with it. They don't fear you or anyone else until you actually try to fuck with them and defend yourself, the more people would try to take real action the worse consequences would be for those criminals.
It's almost the same situation with people not reporting thieves or other criminals. Until retards stop letting abusing themselves and learn the laws of their own countries or what kind of rights those retards have, companies will continue to pressure and fuck the people with no consequences whatsoever.
>>16436175
The law is above some irrelevant contracts. Next you going to tell me that EULA holds some legal strength. It means jack shit.
49eb10 No.16436509
Whats wrong with quarterpounder?
3714bf No.16436515
>>16436509
Shills think hopping on irrelevant shit like his looks or some IBS bullshit will distract people from corporate fuckery.
7eecc0 No.16436522
>>16436335
I still like to see cracks in the conditioning like this, I wonder if E3 this year will bring anything comparable
8c7907 No.16436656
its a con to skew metrics to their new Chinese overlords.
>"s-see mastah, ALL our customers have phones, p-pls save us, all our games are dead or dying, we have no new ips and we need your market to save us, pls mastah, let us bow down and kiss your feet!"
8c7907 No.16436670
>>16436191
They don't, shareholder call on friday showed Blizzard has been losing 1 million users a month every month for half a year and theres no growth or new ip's. Which in western AAA is basically heat death.
622bf3 No.16436682
>>16436175
Hey, if I write a contract that says: "I allow Anon to murder me" and have some random guy sign it, does that allow me to legally murder him?
NO
What if a store has little piece of paper that kids can sign, stating "I acknowledge that I'm a minor but still want to purchase some cigarretes". Does that make it legal?
NO
This shit IS a crime. Privacy Violation. And forcing people to accept a crime as part of an EULA is itself a crime too.
>You want your patty cakes? First you gotta kill this dude for me.
<Officer, it wasn't murder, it was part of the EULA, I swear.
Fuck me, people like you are dumb as shit. I mean, the people putting up with this draconian shit are even dumber, but people like you actually make it worse because you spread this myth that EULAs are legally binding, and you better do what scary big corporation tell you to do, OR ELSE!!!11!!
Fuck you.
e18057 No.16436708
>>16436670
I still don't quite understand how they went from the glory days of Warcraft 3 to the current circus. Guess middle life crisis really hits hard and turns men into soy addicted faggots that forget what their costumers actually want.
8c7907 No.16436715
>>16436708
A combination of 'too big to fail' mindsets, industry brain drain and western AAA being a soy infested shithole concerned with appearances far more than consumer satisfaction.
a338d5 No.16436720
>>16436682
>Fuck you.
Fuck you.
3714bf No.16436727
>>16436656
>"sure thing, gweilo."
>bans all NetEase games and puts the CEO in prison one month later
6dfe2e No.16436734
>>16436720
>Fuck you.
QUE TE JODAN
d6da45 No.16436749
>>16436509
He's an attention whore. He got beaten up by a tranny and cried about it on Youtube for weeks.
e18057 No.16436757
>>16436656
Why do they so desperately chase the chink dollar when India exists and has a less insane business environment than China?
Also, gotta love all the CEOs jumping through hoops in a desperate attempt to get into the chink market knowing full well it's an exercise in futility. Short-term goals in the name of looking good in reports is what ruined Western businesses.
1b25b6 No.16436768
>>16436509
It's impossible to listen to him, because he laborously and loudly swallows every ten seconds
8c7907 No.16436780
>>16436757
Because India is like releasing a game in a different region, China is like another planet. Its a wild west frontier where the laws you live by haven't reached and don't apply. All the stringent consumer protection they spend billions to loopole around don't exist.
Case in point 3 gooks in a apartment ripped the assetts to League of Legends and made a clone that makes 2 billion dollars every month. LoL has no legal rights or presence there so can't kibosh it so its a get away with shit scott free gold rush.
The sad part is people, even on /v/, think western AAA thinks about the western consumer at all. Their PR does because brand loyalty and 'right side of history shit' effects their parent companies outside videogames but in terms of output? look at stuff like Battle for Azeroth. All those new mechanics aren't rpg mechanics. They are mobage mechanics because it was made for their new core audience of the chinese in mind.
3714bf No.16436792
>>16436757
Almost like all this chink pandering is just corporate sabotage disguised as incompetence or something.
e18057 No.16436795
>>16436780
Yeah, but my point is that trying to pander to chinks is a rigged game, because ultimately all you're doing is helping chinks steal your shit and releasing their own version and then banning you from the market.
Also, I'm still not sure how these companies plan to marry their pozzed political views with chink mentality, because it's obvious chinks don't take too kindly to niggers or fags. It really is a clown world.
8c7907 No.16436833
>>16436795
They don't care. Western AAA only has one singular goal: year over year profit. Logic says its not sustainable and will one day collapse but they all thing "i'll cash out before then".
801c27 No.16436838
Wait wait wait wait wait….. Are you telling me that it's already been a year since the Diablo fiasco?
3714bf No.16436842
>>16436838
A little over half.
dccb78 No.16436906
>>16436499
>Next you going to tell me that EULA holds some legal strength. It means jack shit.
This is why I've always laughed at people who think EULA are important in any way. The absolute worst thing that can happen as a result of breaking an EULA is that the company refuses you service afterwards. That's it. They can't do shit else.
7ccee4 No.16437090
>>16436509
He's a grifter who makes clickbait, but he's right for talking about the issues.
5dfd11 No.16437129
>>16436256
>might come in handy in the future
given all this ai crap, i bet they want to simulate "consumers".
af3d2c No.16437188
>>16436499
Essentially the people who would sue blizzard over being raped in the ass by this are also not the same people who would go to that event anyways.
4efcd6 No.16437391
>>16436319
Better hurry up and #closeBlizzCon then.
83517f No.16437400
>>16436522
I'm hoping Todd is crazy enough to try to sell a FO76 Special Edition to people.
3714bf No.16437404
>>16437400
There will be a version of it and Skyrim shown for that google console for sure.
a34da8 No.16437414
>>16436160
It definitely is but the real question is
Who's going to go through the effort of taking them to court over this?
2b474c No.16437445
What's with all these absolutely bizarre fuckups lately by so many companies? This isn't a matter of regular incompetence, it's genuinely fucking stupid decisions that seem almost intentionally self-destructive.
0bffe6 No.16437460
>>16436757
Because interacting with chinks is better than pajeets, doubly so in real life.
India needs to be nuked first, china immediately afterwards.
b72889 No.16437480
>>16436734
>QUE TE JODAN
FUCK YOU!
85b042 No.16437482
>>16436190
>What fucking reason could they want these?
So they can run a credit check on you, get an idea of your general worth, and then sell your info for targeted advertising that's tailored to fit your budget.
b72889 No.16437493
>>16437482
targeted advertising is the biggest scam in the world. I've talked to two people who've worked on targeted advertising algorithms and they've both told me that it boosts sales by maybe 2-3% on a normal day. It's only useful during the holiday season when it boosts sales a good 9%-11%. When you factor in the cost of them setting that up, they lost a good chunk of money in operating costs.
1532dd No.16437541
>ctrl+F "source"
>Only hit is the disclaimer at the bottom of the screen
You easily fooled niggers I fucking swear
82cc9b No.16437550
>>16437541
>>16437541
BUT I LIKE IT BECAUSE IT AGREES WITH MY NARRATIVE. Y-YOURE JUST A SHILL HURRHURR
83ad2e No.16437675
Best way to get rid of long lines and waiting times!
21d1d1 No.16437757
>>16436241
False. By understanding, "sheeple" can become wise and enlightened. Do they want to? Are they ready for the realization? That's the question. And you can probe for its answer, and even set them up for a natural realization.
fc2f54 No.16437785
>>16437481
>>16437445
And greed and the idea that they are faultless. When someone gets payed 300 times more than average worker its impossible for him to not think highly of himself. They will blame their stupid decisions on someone else. Worse case scenario they do some jew-jitsu and government will cover their loses so they dont have to fire employees and than they will fire employees anyway.
4c3377 No.16437792
>>16437757
It's like spoiling a movie. You force them to hear it and they either accept it or reject it
9a9cee No.16437879
>>16437541
>>16437550
No matter how bad things get, I'm glad I'll never be as retarded as these two anons who can't be arsed to even go to their official website.
b6fdc4 No.16437940
>>16437908
You can Ask Jeeves it if that doesn't trigger your autism enough.
d42745 No.16437943
>>16436177
He is a fag but sometimes he gets good info.
378989 No.16437961
I know it didn't happen all that fast, but how did blizzard get this retarded so quickly?
0eb412 No.16437963
>>16436160
What the fuck is a "security code".
ee9457 No.16437972
>>16437813
The irony of using google to confirm data collection. Use Qwant or searx.me
378989 No.16437973
>>16437963
Probably the CVV (three to five numbers on the back of your card that were added because people are retarded)
25e63c No.16437976
It all comes full circle when all of these faggots that criticize Blizzard for ruining WoW, Diablo, and becoming an anti-consumer Jewish cesspool, will probably end up buying classic. Pathetic
31d69c No.16438056
>>16437188
Obviously, but that's pretty selfish if you think about it. I'd rather prefer if Blizzard kikes or other kikes could not jew anyone instead of jewing retards. The problem is, their existence and their practices still do affect our society in a negative way and they set example to other companies that you can get away with being criminal pretty easily, even if stupid morons suffering the most from it.
Every type of crime should be eliminated because it affects our society and thus it affects us, the whole humanity.
>>16437445
>What's with all these absolutely bizarre fuckups lately by so many companies?
They simply trying to pressure harder and harder believing they can get away with it. Greed is a very powerful motivation and for greedy kikes it is never enough. Until you become their slave they will never rest. Chances are, not even that will calm their greed, next they going to stab their own for the sake of becoming more powerful.
7166ce No.16438064
>>16436146
Not even that bad since you still have to pay for admission and most of the information is either
>already there in the payment
>or very basic numbers being added for example: how of ten the app is used, operating system and content being view
now the question is, these suckers keep going into these blizzcon shitshows and why they keep sucking dick
3dd26b No.16438075
I swear we had like 3 "Blizzcons" in the past 6 months, what exactly are these fuckers doing and are you sure it was a yearly thing and not like monthly or some shit?
f32e12 No.16438078
>>16437908
>Moving the goalpost
We have a legit shill here.
183585 No.16438079
This will not stop anyone from taking any pictures or video that they want to anyway, and will actually encourage more people to do so. Even if they strip searched every attendee before they entered and left it wouldn't stop leaks, because the same kind of company that makes bad decisions like this is the same kind of company that will make bad decisions with respect to their employees, not to even mention a low paid security guard, caterer, conference staff member or whoever else. Along with that is the fact that no rational and self respecting person would accept these terms in the first place, and that otherwise indifferent people would be encouraged to protest this Orwellian clusterfuck. It is unwittingly designed to fail, just like the company itself.
15a7e9 No.16438100
>>16438075
Nope. Last Blizzcon was 6 months ago, in November 2018 when we had the Diablo Immortal laugh. This is just the tickets going on sale for Blizzcon in November 2019. Still yearly, every November.
ff4fdf No.16438102
>>16436160
I too, trust a random scumdev with personal info. Where can I pay you for taking this info from me???
3dd26b No.16438105
>>16438100
Alright that clears things up at least.
dfa511 No.16438186
a bit off topic but phone related.
i cheaped out and didnt do any research so im stuck with this POS phone that actually says on the back
"Back of Device is not Removable"
the ez road would obviously be to take it back, but im curious if anyone knows if it's possible to remove the cover and take the battery out when i fucking want or not.
its a model A502DL prepaid tracfone, i tried /tech/ but no one uses it here
thx if anyone has any hints to throw my way.
15a06e No.16438188
>>16438186
If they didn't design the battery to be removable by the user, then it's not removable by the user. If you manage to get the case apart without destroying the phone, it'll be soldered in, no convenient way to unplug it.
dfa511 No.16438193
>>16438188
it amuses me how much they seem to enjoy taking away about ability to control shit we've already paid for. When im done with this phone im looking forward to disposing of it improperly.
15a7e9 No.16438199
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>>16438188
Maybe. It could be like certain galaxy-series phones like the S6 where you ONLY have to melt the glue, pry it apart and then remove over a dozen screws.
3a7433 No.16438213
>>16438193
If normalfags are not explicitly told how to do it right they will just do it increasingly wrong with basically no lower bound:
>Here's a portable computer that watches you when you use it with built-in cameras and mics
>This portable computer will log where you are all of the time and also keeps track of all of the data and communication that is sent through it
>The battery is soldered in and there's countless backdoors so it's always on and always watching you no matter what
>By the way did you hear we live in a cashless society now? Just use your portable tracking computer to pay.
The power of normalfags is retardedly immense. If only it could be harnessed for less gay purposes.
cf8278 No.16438224
>>16438188
We have apple to blame for phones no longer coming with removable batteries. They drove the idea that phones should be water proof(?) and thin. And if apple does something, everyone else does it cause it's what the nigger cattle want.
fd1f24 No.16438231
>>16438199
>You ONLY have to melt the glue, pry it apart and then remove over a dozen screws to replace the battery
Now that's what i call good product design.
e16017 No.16438242
Nothing will change.
E-celebs will make videos for 2 weeks. Blizzard won't change anything. Normalnigger will eat it up. And it will be forgotten. Tencent gets more control.
3714bf No.16438266
>>16437445
They were purposely trained how to run a business wrong, as a joke.
01aa5c No.16438274
>>16436192
unfortunately that includes prenups
e18057 No.16438285
>>16438274
A smart man would simply murder the wants-to-be-ex-wife. If he does it right there's a big chance he'll get away scot-free, and even if he does get caught it's cheaper to pay a good lawyer for a reduced sentence than to see the harpy take half of everything you own and then force you to pay alimony on top.
5ff280 No.16438326
>>16438285
Imagine yourself in this situation and think about it again, Genius. Do you think the police haven't seen literally thousands of cases of men killing their bitch ex-wives over divorce terms?
You're the first one they'll look at, and they'll be able to establish motive and premeditation pretty fast. The only reduced sentence you might get is life without parole instead of lethal injection.
e18057 No.16438380
>>16438326
>the police are likely on the talmudvision
Sure thing fuckwit.
53b9e9 No.16438388
>>16438285
A smart man would never marry or even associate with 3DPD.
97344f No.16438436
>>16438398
What the fuck is a "whiteslime".
97344f No.16438442
>>16438398
Is this a low IQ attempt at using "mudslime" for whites? If so that's hilarious, the only reason muslims are called "mudslimes" is because it's one letter off from slime, and they're mostly mudskins. Retard.
f7fc3d No.16438455
>>16436146
What's with ch*nks and their fixation on spying the fuck out of everybody?
c1d9a7 No.16438480
>>16436146
Fun fact: blizzcon tickets cost from 230$ to 550$
Basically, if you pay to be there you're already a class A moron so they might as well fuck you over as bad as possible.
6e2913 No.16438483
>>16438455
(((COMMUNISM!)))
No, really, that's the reason. I know, it sucks. I hate them all too.
34d2cc No.16438501
>>16437972
>Qwant
<QWANT
>Wanting to give your data to the frog government.
Ayy Lmao
0559c3 No.16438503
Hey, I work at a software company that handles events and conventions and things like that. We have a very similar app, yet nobody ever voices any privacy concerns whatsoever.
Maybe it's because we make it for boring corporate assholes, but even then, there have to be some spergs among the programmers and engineers who would go into a nerd rage about it.
3714bf No.16438511
>>16438480
Blizzard products in general are overpriced crap really. I get a kick out of seeing some guy with a horde t-shirt, a forsaken wallet chain and ETC as his ring tone living in a run down trailer or driving a flintstones tier car.
0559c3 No.16438514
>>16438064
People also seem to think it's Blizzard collecting their information, rather than the third party AXS. They collect your billing information because they sell tickets and they just want your information like everybody else does now.
b8cab4 No.16438578
>>16436190
>>16436256
A thought pops up in the back of my mind every once in a while…
Suppose that for some reason, someone was able to create some way of feeding machines such as the ones over at Baidu or Google or whatchamahaveit company billions upon billions of fake accounts with related garbage information, like continuously searching for some meaningless words or click-farming some small time blog until their own servers and the CDNs implode from the sheer size of all the accumulated, garbage information
And suppose that said company, whatever it is, started making garbage mission statements and business decisions based on that garbage data, would you think it would be realistic and would you think it would lead to their downfall?
>>16436734
Donte is the only good way to enjoy DmC reboot
25f1e2 No.16438583
>>16436190
>What fucking reason could they want these?
So your details get "leaked" if you don't act like a good goy and question what the fuck they're doing by publicly embarrassing them.
3714bf No.16438586
>>16438583
More like so they can only call for questions with plants in the audience.
31d69c No.16438594
>>16438480
Blizzardrones are special kind of retard anyway, always has been.
15e16c No.16438878
>>16437943
his info is literally a reddit post.
3714bf No.16438889
Someone really doesn't want this thread to be about Blizzard's fuckups.
ecaf7f No.16439038
It's obvious they did this because forcing people to bring phones will mean the people who come will be really excited for their phone game announcements and the show will then be good public relations.
The dumpster fire only gets more and more hilarious.
ecaf7f No.16439137
>>16436490
Good point. Will be amusing if they ID and ban accounts of the next red shirt.
>>16436682
One of the biggest things I want to see happen is 'volunteers' such as forum moderators etc etc start suing for unpaid wages. You can't voluntarily work for free outside registered charities. All the companies using human censors would be fucked as they should be.
>>16438503
Those people are being paid to go, with phones also paid and given to them.
>>16438514
Blizzard was already doing it the whole time. They even gave people 4 extra bag slots if they log in using their phone number.
0559c3 No.16439163
>>16439137
You think most people get given work phones nowadays?
ab3d2a No.16439168
>>16439163
Don't you guys have work phones?
776f3b No.16439191
>>16438503
Maybe it is because they've already pissed away the goodwill that they had. So people were going to start double checking and really digging into this shit instead of letting it slide.
8c13e7 No.16439196
>>16439123
If only. Retards will still pay out the ass to just be sold even more things.
a5ef7b No.16439241
>"these blizztards would not put up with the phoneshit after last year"
>blizzcon tickets sold out in less than a half hour
Post yfw you aren't part of the shit-eating blizzdrone cycle
ac3191 No.16439248
Isn't the ticket price for this event also ridiculously high?
ac1ac2 No.16439254
>>16438398
>whiteslime
Thats like "cumskins", cum is pearl white whiles whites aren't actually the color white. While shitskins is accurate because shit and niggers are the same shade of brown.
3714bf No.16439303
>>16439123
Put an employee only sign on each chair and it would be spot on.
25f1e2 No.16439311
>>16439248
I went to see and they actually raised the regular ticket price from $200 to $230 and added a GOODEST GOY option which is $550 and lets you skip past the lower tier of cattle in queues.
c13faa No.16439327
>>16439248
>>16439311
In addition, you get to go to an exclusive party the night before, and get your own lounge area with free* snacks!
*not all snacks are free
Or you could be the bestest of all goyim and purchase a benefit dinner ticket for $750, letting you have dinner with such illustrious devs as "Don't You Guys Have Phones?" Guy, along with an art print most people would feel shame in hanging in their homes and special seating at a whopping total of two panels!
It disgusts me that people actually pay this exorbitant amount for one of the worst conventions around. I mean fuck, I go to Dragon Con every year and that costs between $85-$160 for a four-day badge (technically five-day, Thursday is moving closer towards being an official day for the con), depending on when you order. Four/five days of a shitload of activities across all manner of interests for considerably less than a two-day marketing event for a single developer's games. Such a scam.
b89c30 No.16439335
>>16436160
>Billing Address
>Credit Card Number
>Security Code
I have a solution that might work if you have the info. Basically on campus, there are a ton of social justice booths and pansexuality/gay shit and whenever you walk down a hall, you are almost guaranteed to bump into one who solicits you for your email and support. I used to ignore these faggots but then I realized, why not kill 2 birds with one stone. My roommate right now is annoying and not housebroken so why not fuck around with him? So now whenever I see those booths, I immediately sign his name and email up for their mailing list/club meetings. Now I just sit back and watch what happens :)
ac3191 No.16439341
>>16439311
>>16439327
I'd laugh if most of these people have bought VIP tickets, end up creating a long queue line, limiting people on meeting with nobodies or getting to these lounges.
And if I remember, the entrance ticket is still an entrance ticket. In the end, you need to pay additionally separate travel fee, booking, and the nights in the hotel, correct?
c4bdf0 No.16439514
>>16436499
Reporting thieves doesn't accomplish anything since police departments don't want to record every crime on record. Makes them look bad, just kill the thief and bury the body somewhere nobody goes.
6126d8 No.16439520
>>16439248
>>16439311
You know as much shit as i give Bethesda, at least their con is reasonably priced and it has tournaments.
0b0bd8 No.16439540
Et tu, Blizzard?
>>16437445
In their early years the company enjoyed a good reputation that was the result of good products and good business practices. After a while the corporate drones at the company learned that they could make more money by lowering standards and screwing customers, effectively turning their good reputation, which is money in the bank into cash. This went on for a while, but once they burned through and eroded what was left of their reputation the company started first to bleed customers and then money, but here's the thing: the corporate nigger is still in "fuck the customer" mode, because that's what made him money.
> This isn't a matter of regular incompetence, it's genuinely fucking stupid decisions
These corporate niggers are like lab monkeys who learned that by pressing a button they get bananas. The corporate drones learned that taking their customers to the cleaners makes them more money, not realizing that it was only possible because their reputation shielded them. When the bananas are gone, they go apeshit.
776f3b No.16439548
>>16439540
Which is a basic matter of business and general human interaction. Social capital is not something you spend frivolously, because it is far harder to earn back once you've lost it.
3714bf No.16439562
>>16439540
Really the fact it took this fucking long for people to start making a massive stink over Blizzard shows just how low the standards of their average fan actually is.
c13faa No.16439765
>>16439341
Of course, but that's true for pretty much every convention. Less that the con organizers have to manage if attendants have to arrange their own lodging.
I live nowhere close to (((California))), so I decided to look at how much it would cost me to go to this shitshow, as an example. Breaking it down:
>badge: $230
>hotel: $475 (the cheapest hotel I could find that was relatively close, booked from Thursday-Sunday since you generally need to budget extra time)
>travel: $200 (airfare, I live on the other side of the country so driving is way more expensive and also impractical)
>Uber: $100 (roughly $50 for an Uber from LAX to Anaheim, would need one twice)
>food: $100 (rough estimate for four days, possibly higher; hotel included free breakfast)
In total, it would cost me $1105 for the essentials alone with the cheapest options I could find. Could save some money by dropping a night off the hotel, but from personal experience, traveling right after a con is never fun, and having a bit of time to recharge is worth the cost. That's not even including additional expenses like souvenirs or booze.
All that for what amounts to two days of marketing. Bravo, Blizzard.
3714bf No.16439935
>>16439765
>>16439520
Anyone know if Blizzcon even does things like tournaments or open floor stuff anymore? The site is just a bunch of greyed out shit to me.
c13faa No.16440479
>>16439935
They have the world finals for all their E-Sports™ tournaments, which at this point is pretty much every game they publish except Diablo. I think they shitcanned their HotS tournament as well since they more or less gave up on that game? Floor stuff is demos of their games with whatever they announced that year, displays for various PC hardware manufacturers, merch stores, and of course the all-important Diversity Lounge™.
e217b0 No.16440785
>>16439311
>$550
Do they at least get a ballpit?
c0ff26 No.16440857
>>16436509
He's a soyboy cuck in denial.
0230b3 No.16440867
>>16436146
joke's on them, my phone can't install apps
896ad1 No.16440985
>>16436160
>>16436175
Actually, no. Signing a business contract? You gotta work. That's about as far as contracts go and they're in place in order to ensure shit like buildings getting built. That doesn't cover credit card fraud.
And EULAs do NOT cover this either.
Most of this shit is "Hope they don't find out and sue/bring it up with the police" That's the only reason they're getting away with it, deliberate obfuscation. As soon as any of this hits a court Blizzard's absolutely
FUCKED UP THE GODDAMNED POOP CHUTE
Lord almighty what a mess.
896ad1 No.16441075
>>16438503
That's because you're employees and are expected not to sperg out while representing the company. Also usually these apps are optional.
Also, you're not forcing your customers to use a data collecting app. Assuming that isn't the purpose of your software company, anyway.
When you go from selling products to selling your customer's data, you kinda deserve to have your head on a pike for that. Because it's not only stealing, it's not just dishonest, it's also breaking basic human rights to privacy.
90a940 No.16461906
dba1ec No.16461926
23608d No.16461940
>>16441075
>cy+4
<basic human rights to privacy.
fd35cb No.16462618
So how do you get in if you don't have a smartphone?
3714bf No.16462647
>>16462618
Reported to the ADL for being unmonitored citizenry.
e127a4 No.16462658
>>16436146
Oy vey goyim what's the matter? You wouldn't care if you didn't have something to hide. You been committing thought crimes again?
89afbb No.16462882
>>16436768
This. He sounds like he's struggling to breathe the entire time too.
372f2f No.16462894
>>16462618
If it's anything like a lot of email providers now, you don't, until you get a good goy phone.
Tangentially related, but they're also demanding more and more identification for a lot of basic subscription services nowadays as well, like your drivers license, and passport, etc. Worlds trying to close in, tighten, and control more than ever. It's tiring.