Microsoft is not better than Blizzard in any way, so all is in line.
I just had some hope Blizzard would handle a problem this big differently. It’s just virtual assets after all.
If they were too lazy to restore the lost items they could have offered the guilds some mounts and battle pets for their members as a compensation that actually costs them nothing but would have made positive press and maybe helped to overcome the frustration of the missing items.
Now I am pretty sure it will take years until some of the affected people resub again after a rage-quit. I did rage-quit another mmo once and it took me 7 years until I finally resubbed as I couldn’t find anything better to play 
Yes, I think we deserve a compensation if there is no way to get back our items. I would prefer something in game and something that can be sold in auction house that worths good price to cover at least some of the losses. Btw if it would be something rideable, I would use it 
By now that compensation should also include game time since the bug was introduced or at least from the time of them spitting in our face.
Because quite a few of us haven’t been able to play due to it. Yet our subs have been ticking down.
Not that I expect them doing right by us. They have shown they are still the awful company that was abusing its employees and stealing tit milk.
This. I worked out that the entire dataset of guild banks, uncompressed, would fit into under 1 terabyte of data. And I was rounding up to 16/32/64 bits everywhere. No bitfield usage etc.
It is almost as if they want the game to fail
Indeed 
Though I kinda wish I hadn’t chosen this one as she’s not getting levelled since my 2 Remix characters arrived in my warband.
Absolutely.
Does this also mean that an untested, in court, one sided EULA also can specify that items that are the equivalent of real life cash, when stored in electronic storage, can also be deleted and taken away at will?
What happens to those tiems when people get banned? Do they keep them?
Even it is not their fault? And that no compensation should be offerend under those circumstances.?
EULA are agreements till the provisions are legally tested in court. If deemded to be illegal then they will be edited to reflect that.
Certain laws were made in germany in the run up to world war two. Certain actions were made legal. That did not make what they did legal.
All net revenue numbers not accounting for costs of production and maintenance
EULAs are largely worthless sheets of paper.
They explain how a company will do business with you, violating the EULA is not a crime, and usually isn’t a civil offence either.
That said this sentence goes both ways, if Blizzard bans you tomorrow, they don’t have to do anything about it, as long as they stop charging for your sub fee.
Only if a EULA steps on a person’s rights, does it become an issue.
They know many gamers are border line addicts, most will put up and shut up (maybe little moan) and keep handing cash over.
Blizz are in a good position to do what they want tbh.
It is a little worrying. I have no idea what these russian hackers will do with all the Scourgestones from my bank.
Perhaps they’ll crete their own Lich King…
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Sadly you are right, people either leave and abandon something that’s been a huge part of their life for many years, or they accept it.
Blizzard doesn’t need to do much. On the positive side, if you want a call centre like job where you don’t have to sing the praises of people who speak to you like dirt (by which I mean the customers), apply to work as Blizzard GM
Dont think anyone want your scourgestones though,so they are safe.
From the same post you quoted. You obviously didn’t read it all. You’ve rendered your comment meritless.
The “and so on.” - is doing the heavy lifting here.
I am no lawyer. Had to say that.
But i think you might be on to something there.
I own a bnet accoutnt and have multiple wow accounts attached to that. The payment info is attached to those accounts and this is legally classed as personally identifyable information, thereby under the UK’s GDPR regulations which came into effect this last year, i think it was.
PID’s must be attached to each accounts database. How else are they going to call that into? By giving them an alias?
So if account information is in the data base then this falls under the regulation of GDPR.
The only reason your comment made me think is because you mentione the Bnet accoutn which i own so ii startign thinking about how that data is stored. There has to be some sort of PID on that database. There has to be.