"You know you that bitch when you cause all this conversation."
The fact people are bitching about this expansion already when we literally know about 10% of it and alpha/beta hasn't even gone up yet makes me laugh. The density.
The amount of people refunding a game they know very little about based on fairly unrelated matters is absolutely hilarious! Oh internet, you get more stupid every day.
Why do you keep buying stuff that you don`t want?
If you want it, then buy it.
If you don`t want it, don`t buy it.
If you are not sure - then wait.
What rights are these exactly? The way you're talking makes it sound like you're a Yank. If so, you don't have any consumer rights at all. That's a fact, on a Federal level. Individual states might (I can't think of any, of the top of my head), so correct me if you're from some state that has refund LAWS applying to digital products. Most business operating in the US have a refund policy, and Blizzard is one of them - that's not a right, though, that's a policy.
If you're in the EU, it's a different story, but in the UK, for example, you have to offer refunds if goods are faulty, or not as described. These aren't vague terms that can mean whatever nerdrage dictates that they mean. Faulty in the case of a game would mean bugs rendering it virtually unplayable, or huge server downtime or whatever. Not as described means you'd have to try and pin down a specific element the game said it had, but did not, in fact, have. If, for example, the game claimed to have awesome new raids, them not being awesome would not be grounds for a refund ("puffery"), but if it didn't have new raids at all being added, then it might well be. Ironically this means it would be much easier to get a refund over say, not having the Dance Studio, than the game being shit and about as much fun as eating broken glass (which WoW never has been... well maybe Cataclysm... but it's just an example).
If Blizzard are indeed claiming they only do one refund every six months, that's a policy, and that means they will obviously not do any additional refunds not required by law in that period, and that's fine, but the moment they are legally required to do two refunds within a six month period, they have to - and will - overlook any general policy like that. The law comes first. But not in the US. In the US Blizzard can refund or not as they feel like.
And to be clear, your burger example only applies to simple claims of fact. If the game box and/or advertising materials for an expansion claims it contains the Dance Studio, and it doesn't, then yeah, that's a refund. If the game claims it has loads of cool features but doesn't specify them, or that it will be totally awesome or whatever, or that it has "Many" new dungeons (when it has like 6), none of that is going to be a legally required refund in the UK at least (and I imagine the same is true of most of the EU).
Re: partial use, the problem is that all the examples we've seen are voluntary refunds, not legally-mandated ones. So Blizzard can do what they want. If Blizzard advertise Shadowlands as containing the Dance Studio, then you buy it, and play new race DKs and use your level boost and so on, then the expansion comes and no Dance Studio, you probably can get a legally mandated refund. What Blizzard then do with your new race DKs and level boosted character is up to them, of course. They'd be well within their rights to delete them, but they'd probably ignore them (or they might auto-lock).
But these examples aren't that. These examples are people asking for GRATUITOUS refunds - i.e. ones Blizzard didn't have to provide. So rights don't even come into it.
that's just the current internet mentality. Complain about anything and anyone, even when you don't even know what you complain about.
Read so many "omg worst game ever" when they themselves NEVER even played it for a single second, but wanna argue with people that did.
I mean, i can't remember how often i read "omg, wc3 so shit! they make you pay sub and still fuck up!", so they don't even know wc3 and wow are completely seperate games
No I call her that because of her post history.
EDIT: Erratum, the user I was talking about is @Winter Blossom, who is a friend of Queen of Hamsters
Last edited by Seasz; 2020-02-18 at 03:22 PM.
Read my last post.
You're not the abuser but your friend @Winter Blossom is.
An avid, proud and remorseless animal abuser.
Because I mixed up their names.
That's why I apologize to @Queen of Hamsters. But she still should check whom she's making friends with.
Given the huge numbers of problems and pseudo-scandal there has been over the last 10 years with pre-purchase games, it baffles me people are still pre-purchasing games like that.... Wait for the week before it launch, not 2 years ahead of it launch :/ So many things can change inbetween ^^'