IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT, YOU ARE NOT PERMITTED TO INSTALL, COPY, OR USE THE BLIZZARD PLATFORM OR GAMES.
So basically if you bought a game/s before you have to agree or you are locked out of your account. So they can change the terms willy nilly just because they feel like it.
I'm not that knowledgeable in this aspect but shouldnt this be illegal (at least in EU).
You buy a car 3 years later the brand changes the user agreement and forces you to accept or else you cant use your car anymore.
It probably IS illegal in the EU. The US, on the other hand, has absolutely zero consumer protection when it comes to large corporations. You basically cannot buy or use anything, except for publicly regulated utilities (like water, electricity, gas) without being duped/forced into agreeing to "forced arbitration".
Things like internet, TV, hell even LG manufactured refrigerators (no, I'm not joking), you are forced to sign away your right to take legal action unless you do so through a "neutral" (but not really, because it is in their best interest to find FOR the corporation, as they are who brings them all of their "business") third party arbitrator.
Fridge rant...
Spoiler:
There's a big hubbub going around because the refrigeration compressors LG has been using in their sold in US fridges are absolute dog shit, with many going out before, or conveniently shortly after, the warranty expires. The thing is, LG prints the forced arbitration agreement on the BOX the fridge comes in (which no one ever gets to see, as the delivery company takes it out of the box before they bring it into your home). You also can't see the box in store, obviously, as there are only display models. They claim that they put a print-out out of it inside your newly delivered fridge, but at that point it's too late, as you've already taken possession of it.
TLDR - If you're an EU consumer count your lucky stars that big corpo hasn't been granted the right to all but bend you over the kitchen table and rail you to their hearts content - because those in the US aren't so lucky.
In the same vein, there's a guy on YT, Accursed Farms, that's trying to go after Ubisoft for pulling the plug on online only live service games (thereby rendering the product you bought unusable). Specifically, they're killing off the original The Crew game this month.
22:07 - 24:00 is the crux of it all, basically.
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Fairly sure it's illegal outside the US as Ubisoft has been patching out their cloud integration to keep titles running once they shutdown the service.
But also idgaf if blizz deletes most it's catalog.
That guy must've been listening to Rage Against The Machine and gotten all worked up and thought "I can't just picket outside Walmart, I need a better cause to rage against..."
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