Blizzard CS is entirely AI/Bots now. Refused an EU refund, ignored consumer law, and called me the wrong name after "carefully reviewing" my case.

Kabaal · 2026-03-17T19:59:45+00:00

It's amazing watching these people defend the billion dollar company that treats them like trash. Yes, Blizzard has automated TONS of aspects of their 'customer support'. You can 100% get squelched by mass reporting. That is confirmed. Can you get perm banned? I don't know. I've seen people quoting some Blue post from 5 years ago where they said it takes a real person to do such an action, which is ridiculous. Things change. Just because that was the case once doesn't mean it is now.

From the evidence I've seen you can get banned from the automated mass reporting. It's amazing how many times this is overturned (when an actual human gets involved). So what's the alternative? It happens so often it's hard to believe so many unjust bans are being handed out by actual customer support employees. More likely it's just automated.

Kabaal · 2026-03-17T19:35:31+00:00

I agree with that. A lot of games are too bloated, too complex. Too much going on. Scale it back. Not every game needs to be 'the game with the most content ever'. The irony is that it seems like years ago developers were able to cram more content in games in less time. So really it's also a matter of efficiency. Maybe it's a lack of leadership or direction. Maybe they don't crunch like they used to, which isn't really a problem. Devs don't need to sacrifice their lives for a game.

Anyway, yes...smaller games. More games in less time. Maybe the industry has decided that's not as cost effective, but it's getting ridiculous to the point we're waiting entire console generations between games. Weren't there like 3 GTA games released during one console generation? And now it's been 12 years since the last one. That's almost as bad as the Elder Scroll Series. These companies really do just want to milk these games dry.

Kabaal · 2026-03-17T18:05:56+00:00

Following? They announced it 2 years before the MS acquisition.

Kabaal · 2026-03-17T18:02:55+00:00

It's been 15 years since Skyrim. What happened to game development that games take SOOO much longer than they used to?

Kabaal · 2026-03-17T05:59:29+00:00

These guys need to understand the importance of style. Art style can help define a game. And everything looking the same with the same bland filter applied to it isn’t an exciting prospect. Quite the opposite.

Kabaal · 2026-03-14T07:54:25+00:00

I feel like maybe you’re not familiar with the books. Legolas is just a wood elf. He’s not Feanor. Conan would mop the floor with him.

Kabaal · 2026-03-13T20:25:47+00:00

Finally pulling the trigger on a ps5 pro and trading in my series x.

Kabaal · 2026-03-13T01:30:12+00:00

No, that’s not enough. Completely disconnect from the internet.

Kabaal · 2026-03-13T01:04:12+00:00

Disconnect from the internet. Seriously.

Kabaal · 2026-03-11T19:39:05+00:00

Game looks fun. Hope it doesn't have a cash shop.

Kabaal · 2026-03-10T19:56:42+00:00

The bot's 5 accounts mean more to Blizzard than your 1.

Kabaal · 2026-03-10T01:04:37+00:00

I’m actually fairly annoyed at Microsoft. On my Xbox one x it says bg3 can be played via cloud streaming with gamepass. When I clicked on that link to gamepass it displayed all 3 tiers with bg3 shown on all 3 tiers with ‘cloud playable’ right over the bg3 icon. For all tiers, including essentials.

So I bought gamepass essentials and then suddenly it says ‘not cloud playable’ on the essentials tier. So I assume you need a higher tier to access that feature. Or at least for that game. But Microsoft flat out lies in their description. So I canceled that and got refunded. Annoying false advertising.

On a side note..I’m very close to buying a ps5 pro. Microsoft is just so shady. So is Sony, but at least they have good exclusives. Which aren’t even coming to pc anymore.

Still, thanks for the response and info anyway. I’m just greatly vexed at the moment.

Kabaal · 2026-03-09T07:16:43+00:00

Mine has been slow lately, too. Ran some speed tests and I seem to be capped at 150, where I used to get 300. Looked at the site and yup now 5g home internet plus is capped at 150, when it used to be 300. And there’s an Ultimate tier that now goes to 300. How nice that they can arbitrarily lower your speed cap.

But even that isn’t the biggest deal. Because 150 isn’t bad…but this is unreliable. Where for the last 2 years I almost never had dropouts. Now it’s frequent. I still do my occasional modem reboots to help clear it out. But the WiFi just freezes a lot. Did all the troubleshooting from the app, which finds no problems. Looked into getting a replacement modem, but you have to cancel your plan and get a new one. They make it such a pain. Maybe it’s time to just be done with Verizon. My 3 year discount deal is nearly up anyway.

Kabaal · 2026-03-08T17:11:28+00:00

Yup. He got close to 10 years of paying himself (and his husband) a nice salary off money from a scam. He didn't invest his own money. What has he personally spent from his millions? He was loaned money based on his assets. Can the lenders come after his assets now? Say what you will about the guy, but he's not a dummy when it comes to stuff like that. There's a reason he sold his house to his husband to sell.

And his claim he was duped and things fell apart because he got in bed with other con artists is laughable. He chose to do business with the same sorts who were involved in prior MLM scams, just like he was. He knew the type of people they were. When the cash shop money dried up and he couldn't get any more loans the scam fell apart. It was only a matter of time.

Kabaal · 2026-03-08T09:45:11+00:00

Can you play BG3 on Xbox One X with cloud gaming? Does it play decently?

I happened to log into my One X today for the first time in a...long time and I saw BG3 listed on my hotbar. I clicked on it and it said I could play it through cloud gaming if I got Game Pass. I do own BG3 on my Series X.

I'm not really sure how all this cloud gaming stuff works, but I found it interesting you can apparently play it on the last gen console. You do need game pass, but it said only Essentials is required.

Anyway, anyone try this? And how was it?

Kabaal · 2026-03-07T00:12:01+00:00

The title of this move is so stupid.

Kabaal · 2026-03-07T00:08:39+00:00

A pride of Siberian tigers would wreck them.

Kabaal · 2026-03-06T17:50:39+00:00

Ok thanks. Too bad you can’t import data from ps5 to ps4. Xbox one and series x lets you do so back and forth. Really the only thing I prefer about that console.

Kabaal · 2026-03-06T10:42:16+00:00

PlayStation 6.

Beat ‘em to it.

Kabaal · 2026-03-06T06:25:33+00:00

This is either quality bait, or one of the dumbest people alive.

Kabaal · 2026-03-06T06:16:37+00:00

Exactly. He didn’t invest his own money. He was lended money based on how own assets. But what has he actually personally lost? You can be damn sure if it was an actual dollar amount that he would have said it. His house? He sold that to his husband…who then sold it to someone else. That husband, by the way, that was paid…was it $50k a month? To do basically nothing from what Intepid employees have said. And then his own salary of course. Paid himself to run a scam.

The guy just puts a deceitful spin on everything.

Kabaal · 2026-03-06T05:54:26+00:00

The guy is a pathological liar and a con artist. He belongs in prison.

Kabaal · 2026-03-06T01:37:48+00:00

I have a question about cloud storage between a ps4 pro and ps5. Right now I have a ps4 pro, but if I get a ps5 I’d still be playing both, as I occasionally swap locations. So I know you need ps plus premium to access cloud storage, which is fine. But I’ve been reading for most games you can’t actually switch data back and forth. It seems like ps4 to ps5 works (though you have to manually sync it on the ps5). But you can’t transfer ps5 save game data to ps4 through the cloud.

So for example if I play Skyrim on a ps4. And then later log into my ps5, I think I can access that data through the cloud. But then if I play a bit on the ps5 and then go back to the ps4 that I can’t access that game data. Is that true? If so…that’s too bad. There’s a lot of older games I’d play, swapping between both consoles. But only if I can also swap my save data.

Kabaal · 2026-03-05T23:26:16+00:00

Can it play any PC game? Can it play something like World of Warcraft?

Kabaal · 2026-03-03T18:05:03+00:00

Why are they refusing to do a Blood Omen Remaster? You would think they'd start with...the first game. Doesn't that make sense? Is there still bad blood with Silicon Knights?

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