Breakfast Topic: Have you turned to the Dark Side (of Battle.Net)?

I'd been holding off on merging my World of Warcraft account with Battle.Net account for a while now. I really didn't see the point, even though I'm certain to buy Diablo 3 and StarCraft 2 when they come out... soon®. I also haven't been hearing too many good things about the service, although to be fair, log-in problems happen to all World of Warcraft accounts whether they've been merged or not. I didn't really think about it much until yesterday, when Battle-Bots became available over at the Mountain Dew Game Fuel site.
It's a trap. I mean, this is Blizzard's not-so-subtle ploy to get everyone to merge their accounts into Battle.Net. And boy it's a really good one. The thing is, even scammers seem to think that Battle.Net is a good idea -- hacked accounts are immediately converted to Battle.Net to make it harder to recover -- so it might be better to beat them to the punch. I'm not too worried about account security since I've got an Authenticator, but Battle.Net has now become much more attractive to me now that there's a Battle-Bot bribe thrown into the mix. What do you think? Do you guys have Battle.Net accounts? Is the Battle-Bot worth it? Or is Battle.Net the spawn of the devil?
It's a trap. I mean, this is Blizzard's not-so-subtle ploy to get everyone to merge their accounts into Battle.Net. And boy it's a really good one. The thing is, even scammers seem to think that Battle.Net is a good idea -- hacked accounts are immediately converted to Battle.Net to make it harder to recover -- so it might be better to beat them to the punch. I'm not too worried about account security since I've got an Authenticator, but Battle.Net has now become much more attractive to me now that there's a Battle-Bot bribe thrown into the mix. What do you think? Do you guys have Battle.Net accounts? Is the Battle-Bot worth it? Or is Battle.Net the spawn of the devil?
| I have a Battle.Net account and have merged my WoW already. | |
|---|---|
| I don't have a Battle.Net account and have no plans of getting one. | |
| I have a Battle.Net account but I haven't merged my WoW... yet. | |
| I have a Battle.Net account but don't plan to merge it with WoW. | |
| I don't have a Battle.Net account but I think I'll get one now. That Battle-bot did it for me. |
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 5)
Whiplashmtb Jun 10th 2009 8:04AM
The first and third options in the survey are the same.
majorfalcon Jun 10th 2009 9:06AM
Seriously, no thought went into this survey.
elstor Jun 10th 2009 9:30AM
PhailPoll
Alanid Jun 10th 2009 9:57AM
I've merged mine also(for the SC2 beta), but being an EU player I can't get this pet, WHY is it US only?
Greykin Jun 10th 2009 8:05AM
Where is the vote option I have a battle.net account and i HAVE merged it with wow?
that one seems to be missing!
elstor Jun 10th 2009 8:28AM
This^
Bbcversus Jun 10th 2009 8:34AM
This to!
Gumarx Jun 10th 2009 8:41AM
I agree with the above!
Uleaz Jun 10th 2009 9:01AM
And the first, third and forth options are so similar.
awwjwah Jun 10th 2009 8:50AM
This ^
Hasteur Jun 10th 2009 8:55AM
Agree
Sedair Jun 10th 2009 9:35AM
/signed
snowleopard233 Jun 10th 2009 9:35AM
Yeah, seriously. Is this poll supposed to be some kind of joke?
Graham Jun 10th 2009 9:59AM
/vote
I have an account and I have merged it with WoW. Why?
-I believe in the idea of having a centralized account linked to all of my Blizzard games.
-I can't opt in for the Starcraft II beta (which is coming this summer) if I don't have a Battle.net account. (!!!)
-The problems I have had with it have been minimal. Maybe one or two times I couldn't sign in for a little while because of it, but it's brand spankin' new so I can cut Blizzard some slack.
-As for the security issues, I still need to be convinced that having a Battle.net account actually increases your chances of getting hacked.
By the way, the picture for this article is pure win. Even though I don't think it's a you-know-what. XD
Arawn Jun 10th 2009 10:06AM
Yeah, already done this as well. It's not so bad.
Superthrust Jun 10th 2009 10:09AM
QFT QFT QFT
Nauscicaa Jun 10th 2009 8:07AM
missed the option:
I have a Battle.Net account and I have merged my WoW.
I do however get screwed over by the fact that Mountain Dew is a predominantly aimed at the US market so I won't be able to get one of the bots on my Eu account. (YEs I tried the workaround but it seems to have been fixed).
Give us euros a bot too!
ORLY Jun 19th 2009 7:44AM
This. Dagnabbit, give me a battlebot, not my fault I'm destined to live on the continent that get gaming stuff released last :((
Groth Jun 10th 2009 10:48AM
you live in china?
Jason Jun 10th 2009 12:02PM
Did you try to get it anyways? I heard there are some EU players who kept clicking to get it despite the US Only stuff, and they got it. It was in the comments of a WoW.com post, actually.