Comments on: Battlenet WoW Account Merges – Bad For Everyone?

By: Bluerobin

Bluerobin — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:35:08 +0000

I’m with you on some of the downsides, like not being able to unlink/transfer games from one account to another. They mentioned that getting banned on one game wouldn’t affect the other games (don’t have a source for that =/).

I feel like the pros REALLY outweigh the cons though. Some of the benefits are, unfortunately, yet to come, like being able to see/talk with friends when they’re playing other games, but JayeDuB up there mentioned a good one usable now with being able to download Diablo 2, Starcraft, etc, and play them whenever you want without the CDs. Really, if you’re that concerned about account security you should have an authenticator anyway, at which point it’s basically a non-issue.

By: Genda

Genda — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:53:53 +0000

I too have separate bNet accounts for each of my games. Why risk it? If there were a tangible benefit for combining them (shared ACCOUNT bank? Hell yea) I would definitely consider it. What’s done is done for now though.

Seems like this was done a little more for Blizzard’s needs than for ours. Unless they are trying to surprise me with some benefit, which is just a dumb way to roll this out.

By: xXJayeDuBXx

xXJayeDuBXx — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:43:01 +0000

I can understand your point of view, and it’s quite valid. I like that I was able to add both Diablo 2 and LOD with the cd-keys, so if I want I can just download the game at any time.