Technically you can choose. Obviously, there should be a confirmation button but I am not sure why they should have done this on purpose… why would they care if you activate it now or later? They already received the money and it’s no extra work for them if you do it now. On the other hand it’s a lot of work to answer all those support tickets and it brought them even more negative publicity. There is no logical reason for them to do it on purpose. Calling it malicious is kind of overreacting.
Well if it isn’t malicious, then it’s incompetence or negligence and I think that is almost as bad. The reason why they care is because now x people is out of the battle pass that they have paid for and might have wanted to use in another season. Now those people will have to cough up more money if they find a season that they actually wanted to use it in. Either way, I don’t care about the 10 bucks. I care about scummy business practices and this company has been doing it for too long now. I just want justice.
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Yeah they are scammer
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Also, I think most people that were interested in this game bought the premium versions of it. It’s much easier to up sale it at the beginning when people are already going to buy the game what’s an extra 10 or 15 for a “free battle pass”.
Now if you accidentally activated it because you weren’t that interested in the first BP you have to turn around and spend more money. It’s absolutely predatory especially considering consoles default cursor location is a single click activation of the pass… At least with PC it’s not immediately hovering over the activation.
I still really hate their response to oh we’re looking into it and will have a temporary fix soon.
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Fixe for what ? People already use it.
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This is something that loses you ten points on a year 2 university assignment in a UI course. This is known by literally every developer. Not doing it and having it auto-focus on the only button that doesn’t have a confirmation dialogue is malicious or it means the UI team is made up of reject coop students going into year 2 of their studies.
So either they are being dishonest, shocker, or they have an incompetent UI dev team. Trying to argue against this tells me you either work for Actibliz, know someone who works there, are invested in the company, or have never worked retail (special out of touch people).
Consumer rights do not become irrelevant because the purchase is digital. This is why steam was forced to have a refund option. Not having one opens you up to lawsuits that will most likely start in the EU, but get ultimately get passed first in Australia which will then need to be adopted in Canada. Hopefully the US can figure it out after it’s neighbour does it (not likely though).
There is only one reason to have secondary/premium currency in games. Laws. If you pay real money for something that is then used to pay for something the transitive property doesn’t apply for reasons. Doubly so when it’s imbedded as part of a “deluxe” edition of the game. There have literally been multiple lawsuits paid out in the hundreds of millions due to this intentional omission of safe UI practices.
If you read this far and are still confused. Try to run a store that has no return policy. Let me know how long it takes for you to be shut down or fined?
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Or someone got full score at the UI course and got emplyed by Blizzard.
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Now what we need is PROPER refund policies for games.
14 day refund but only if you played less than 2 hours doesn’t fly for games that are advertised as live service.
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I think Eu rules don’t catch up to dirty work of developers.<they cover all thing in live servieces and early access for unlimited time. So they can develop not finished product and don’t get any punishment for that. Maybe time to struck those people in Eu parlament and force them to do some work instead of sitting and do nothing most time .
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